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HMS Duke of Wellington, screw ship of
the line launched 1852, was the flagship of Sir Charles Napier, manning
131 guns, she served in the Portsmouth Dockyard Reserve as a depot ship
and finally sold in 1904.
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A
reproduction of this original photo / photo-postcard size 10" x
7" approx available. Order photograph here © Walker
Archive. Order Code PHX482
The Duke of Wellington Firing as Flagship at Portsmouth
The glory of the old Duke of Wellington - the once famous flagship
of Sir Charles Napier. Relegated to harbour service as one of the depot
ships for berthing the men of the Portsmouth Dockyard Reserve, and shorn
of her towering masts and trim square-set yards she looked very different
from this picture taken in the latter half of the 19th century. The
photograph shows the Duke in her last year of active service as flagship
to the Commander-in-Chief at Portsmouth, dressed in bunting in honour of
the Queen's Birthday.
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HMS Duke of Wellington photographed c.1880 sent in by
Ray Norman |
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Charles James Haynes and crew members of HMS Duke of
Wellington.
Contributed by his grandson: My grandfather served on many ships during the
period of 1890 to 1922 these are some photos of him and some of his
shipmates on the Victory, Duke of Wellington and Macedonia. He received a
bounty payment I believe this was following the engagement of the AMV
Macedonia with some German colliers off the Falklands. |
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Below are pages from the log book of HMS Duke of
Wellington, from 1877 - 1879, contributed by Robert Monk. Click on
each image for a large version of each page. |
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Log, 1877 - 1879. |
Log, 1877 - 1879. |
Log, 18th December 1878. |
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MESSAGES:
I have just found out that my grandfather, signed on the Duke of
Wellington at the age of
17-18 years of age
in1896 .and on the morning of
joining he saw a boy get 18
strokes of the birch for
desertion. He served his time before the mast, and was discharged in1900.
Maybe he was aboard in your
photo, hope this is of interest to some one.
W Eynon
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