Royal Navy Historic Ships
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(measurements of length are overall length from the taffrail or transom to tip of the bowsprit or jib-boom)
HMS Warrior (1861) LOA 420′ TDISP 9,200 tons
HMS Victory, 100 cannon First-Rate 100 cannon ship of the line (1765 – still in commission) LOA 316′ TDISP 3,500 tons
HMS Victory, raising the yards in August 1945 © IWM (A 30810)
This more recent capture shows HMS Victory now having her upper masts and jib-boom removed, presumably for routine maintenance.
HMS Trincomalee (1817) Leda class 38-46 gun frigate Hartlepool UK museum ship LOA 250′ TDISP 1065 tons
Training Ships Foudroyant (left) and Implacable, Portsmouth. Foudroyant was originally and would be renamed Trincomalee, while Implacable, scuttled in 1949, was originally the French prize Duguay-Trouin, captured at the Battle of Trafalgar, 1805. © IWM (A 25960)
HMS Unicorn (1824) modified Leda Class 38-46 gun frigate Museum ship LOA 202′ (jib-boom not stepped) TDISP 1000 tons Dundee Scotland (only sailing warship preserved in an “in ordinary” state)
HM Frigate Unicorn, the innovative “round stern” design allowed more cannon to be trained aft, to defend the vulnerable stern. © Copyright M J Richardson
HMS Gannet Dotterel class composite sloop (1878) sloop LOA 225′ TDISP 1,130 tons museum ship Chatham Historic Dockyard since 1987
The vessels of the Warship Preservation Trust located in the Great Float in Birkenhead before the Trust dissolved and they were disposed of or preserved
