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| Name | Neptune | Explanation | |
| Type | First rate | Type | Two-decker |
| Launched (Sail) | 27 September 1832 | Converted to screw | 7 March 1859 |
| Hull | Wooden | Length | 216 feet |
| Propulsion | Sail | Men | 830 |
| Builders measure | 2694 tons | Builders measure (as screw) | 2830 tons |
| Displacement | Displacement (as screw) | 4579 tons | |
| Guns | 120 | Guns (as screw) | 89 |
| Fate | 1875 | Last in commission | 1862 |
| Class | Class (as screw) | Caledonia | |
| Ships book | |||
| Snippets concerning career prior to conversion | |||
| Date | Event | ||
| 27 September 1832 | Launched as 1st rate sailing ship at Portsmouth Dockyard. | ||
| January 1840 | Out of commission at Portsmouth | ||
| 5 December 1851 - 27 March 1852 | Commanded by Captain Richard Augustus Yates, guard ship of Ordinary, Portsmouth | ||
| 27 March 1852 - 17 February 1854 | Commanded by Captain Edward Hinton Scott, guard ship of Ordinary, Portsmouth (replaced by St Vincent) | ||
| 17 February 1854 - 7 March 1854 | Commanded by Captain Henry Smith, Portsmouth | ||
| 7 March 1854 - 5 January 1856 | Commanded (until paying off at Portsmouth) by Captain Frederick Hutton, flagship of Rear-Admiral Armar Lowry Corry, Portsmouth, then the Baltic during the Russian War | ||
| Career as unarmoured wooden screw vessel | |||
| Date | Event | ||
| 7 March 1859 | Undocked as screw at Portsmouth Dockyard. | ||
| 7 June 1859 - 6 December 1859 | Commanded (from commissioning at Portsmouth) by Captain William Legge George Hoste, Mediterranean | ||
| 6 December 1859 - 11 February 1861 | Commanded by Captain Frederick Archibald Campbell, Mediterranean | ||
| 11 February 1861 - 17 December 1862 | Commanded (until paying off at Portsmouth) by Captain Geoffrey Thomas Phipps Hornby, Mediterranean | ||
| 1875 | Sold to Castle for breaking up at Charlton. | ||
| Extracts from the Times newspaper | |||
| Date | Extract | ||
| (various) | The 1844 Experimental squadron. | ||
| (various) | The 1846 Experimental squadron. | ||
| We 10 August 1859 | The screw steamship Edgar, 91, Capt. Katon, bearing the flag of Rear-Admiral J.E. Erskine, second in command of the Channel fleet, arrived at Portland on Saturday morning from Spithead. The Blenheim, 60, Capt. F. Scott, returned from the westward on Friday. Sir John Burgoyne, Inspector-General of fortifications, paid an official visit to the works at Portland on Saturday. The screw line-of-battle ship Neptune, 91, Capt. Sir William Hoste, arrived at Portland on Sunday afternoon from Spithead. | ||
| Ma 24 October 1859 | By the last accounts received at Malta the Marlborough, 131, bearing the flag of Vice-Admiral Fanshawe, the Commander-in-chief, with Rear Admiral Dacres on board as Captain of the Fleet; the Conqueror, 101; the Orion, 91; the Princess Royal; 91; the Renown, 91, steam-ships of the line; the Vulture, 6, steam frigate; the Scourge, 6, the Coquette, 4, and the Lapwing, 4, steam sloops; the Growler steam gunboat; the African depot ship; the Redpole steam tug were at Gibraltar, as well as the Edgar, 91, bearing the flag of Rear-Admiral Erskine, and the Neptune, 91, steamships of the line belonging to the Channel fleet. The Caesar, 90, the James Watt, 91, the Agamemnon, 91, steamships of the line, and the Virago, 6, steam sloop, were on their way to Gibraltar and the Mediterranean from England; and on her way to Malta from England and Gibraltar the Supply, 2, steam storeshlp. On her way to Gibraltar and England the Firebrand, 6, steam sloop. The Doris, 32, steam frigate, was at Tetuan, and the Quail steam gunboat at Tangier. | ||
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