H.M.S. St. George, 91 guns, off the coast of Spain

Ordered in 1819 but not actually laid down until the spring of 1827, the frame of the large first rate H.M.S. St. George was then left to season from 1828 until 1832, with the result that she was not finally launched until 27 August 1840 afer fully thirteen years on the stocks. Costing an estimated £93,521, she was measured at 2,694 tons and was 205½ feet in length with a 55½ foot beam. Carrying a massive armament of 120 guns and a crew of 1,000 men, she was first commissioned in February 1854 and served in the North Sea and the Baltic during the war with Russia until paid off in the summer of 1856. In 1858-59, she was cut down to a 90-gun two decker and fitted with screw propulsion but once this work was finished, she completed only one more commission (1860-64, under Captain Egerton) before being transferred into the Coast Guard service where she remained until 1869. Laid up at Devonport thereafter, she was eventually sold for breaking in 1883.