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Ganges, HMS [Tenedos III, Indus V, Impregnable III]

Vessel summary

Name
Ganges, HMS [Tenedos III, Indus V, Impregnable III]
Class
Canopus-class, second rate
Type
ship of the line
Builder
Wadia, Jamsetjee Bomanjee
When launched (Date built)
1821
Place built
India, Maharashtra, Mumbai, Bombay Dockyard
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Description

80-guns; last sailing ship of the Navy to serve as flagship

renamed Tenedos III (1906), Indus V (1910), Impregnable III (1922)

broken up 1930

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