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Active, 1845
Type: 5th rate ; Armament 36
Completed : 19 Jul 1845 ; Disposal date or year : 12 May 1908
BM: 1627 tons ; Displacement: 1815 tons
Notes:

20 Jun 1844 building Chatham

Jan 1848 Chatham, in Ordinary (reserve)

20 Dec 1848 Chatham, in Ordinary

20 Mar 1849 Chatham

1860 at Chatham, re-rated as a 40

27 Jan 1863 Removed from ordinary to Chatham dockyard to be fitted out as a training ship for the Naval Coast Volunteers at Hartlepool.

29 Jan 1863 This vessel has never been to sea since being launched.

8 May 1863 Chatham. Commissioned as an Naval Coast Volunteers Drill Ship for Service at Hartlepool.

6 Jun 1863 Left Chatham for Sunderland, under tow of the Medusa.

1864 Home Station, as RNR Drill Ship at Sunderland. Number of Cases of Disease and Injury.

Jul 1867 Renamed Tyne, RNR Training Ship

Nov 1867 Renamed Durham

1870 RNR Drill Ship, Sunderland

1 Jan 1873 Recommissioned at Sunderland

1879 RNR Drill Ship, Sunderland

1 Apr 1881 New books opened.

Apr 1886 Sunderland

1890 RNR Drill Ship, Leith