HMS Defiance (1861)
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HMS Defiance was the last wooden line-of-battle ship launched for the Royal Navy. She never saw service as a wooden line-of-battle ship. In 1884 she became a school ship.
Defiance moored at Saltash
Defiance fires a salute in honour of the Queen's birthday
HMS James Watt
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HMS James Watt was a 91-gun, second-rate, screw-powered Agamemnon-class ship of the line built for the Royal Navy during the 1850s. Completed in 1854, she played a minor role in the Baltic campaigns o
HMS Defiance (1861)
…dated 8 October 1858 was prepared giving Defiance a lengthened bow. Defiance was the last ship to use the midsection design that Isaac Watts created for HMS James Watt. Her trials off Plymouth on 5 February 1862 were conducted when she was neither masted nor stored. The trial speed of 11.886 knots (22.013 km/h) was…
The Queen's Birthday in 1856. James Watt with colours Flying and Manned at the Yards
James Watt (on the left) off Kronstadt, with Centaur, Bulldog and Imperieuse in action near the Tolboukin lighthouse, 16 August 1855
'The Snap' Gun-Boat of James Watt, sent to intercept coastal traffic early 1855, in the Baltic