HMS Marlborough (1855)
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HMS Marlborough was a 131-gun, first-rate, modified Queen-class ship of the line built for the Royal Navy during the 1850s. She was converted to screw-propulsion whilst still under construction. Compl
Painting of Marlborough off Gibraltar, by Henry J. Morgan
Photo of Marlborough taken shortly after launch. The covered slipways of Portsmouth Dockyard (in one of which she had been built) can be seen behind her
HMS Marlborough in Valletta harbour, sometime between 1858 and 1864
Her figurehead in Portsmouth
Admiral Sir William Fanshawe Martin, 4th Baronet, was a Royal Navy officer. As a commander, he provided valuable support to British merchants at Callao in Peru in the early 1820s during the Peruvian W
HMS Marlborough (1855)
…was completed by 22 February as she became as the flagship of Vice-Admiral Arthur Fanshawe, Commander-in-Chief of the Mediterranean Fleet. Vice-Admiral William Martin relieved Fanshawe on 19 April 1860 and Captain William Houston Stewart relieved Kerr on 3 May. Martin was relieved in his turn by Vice-Admiral Robert…
The first-rate HMS Queen which Martin commanded
HMS Marlborough, Flagship of the Mediterranean Fleet, which Martin commanded in the early 1860s