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Challenger

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Name: Challenger
Class: Sixth Rate
Type: frigate
Builder: Portsmouth Dockyard
When launched (Date built): 1826
Place built: United Kingdom, England, Portsmouth, Portsmouth, Her Majesty's Naval Base Portsmouth

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28 guns. 603 tons burthen. Captained by A. Fitzclarence. Wrecked 1835.

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Hayes, John

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Portsmouth Dockyard

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The "Challenger", commanded by Capt. Fitz Clarence, sailing from Portsmouth, with Dispatches for Lisbon, Oct. 31, 1827.

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View of the "Challenger" one of the Experimental Squadron with the "Columbine" in the distance.

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