HMS Prince of Wales (1860)
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HMS Prince of Wales was a 121-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. C
Britannia (left) and Hindostan, photographed in 1878
A photograph of the future King George V and his elder brother, Prince Albert Victor, dated by George 1878, as cadets on board the Britannia
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
HMS Prince of Wales (1860)
…the engines and their required coal better than smaller ships. He ordered Prince of Wales to be converted into a 121-gun ship along the same lines as Marlborough on 9 April 1856, although she was further lengthened than that ship. The ship's length at the gun deck increased to 252 feet (76.8 m) and 213 feet (64.9…
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