January 1860. In 1869 she was renamed HMS Britannia and under that name served at Dartmouth as a cadet training ship until 1905. The Prince of Wales was originally...
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Seven ships of the Royal Navy have been named HMS Prince of Wales, after numerous holders of the title the Prince of Wales. HMS Prince of Wales (1765) was...
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ship of the line launched in 1820. She was a training ship after 1859, and broken up in 1869. HMS Prince of Wales (1860), a 120-gun first rate ship of the...
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sister ship HMS Black Prince were the first armour-plated, iron-hulled warships, and were built in response to France's launching in 1859 of the first ocean-going...
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HMS Prince of Wales was a London-class pre-dreadnought battleship built for the Royal Navy in the first decade of the 20th century. She was one of two...
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after his father - is named after him. Prince Alfred sailed into Port Elizabeth on 6 August 1860 as a midshipman on HMS Euryalus and celebrated his 16th birthday...
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Edward VII (redirect from Prince Albert Edward, Prince of Wales)
actually looked forward to his lectures. In 1860, Edward undertook the first tour of North America by a Prince of Wales. His genial good humour and confident...
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and Princess Helena) were stillborn, and two more (Prince Alexander John of Wales and Prince Harald of Schleswig-Holstein) died shortly after birth. Their...
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sailing ship of the line (with her sister ships HMS Duke of Wellington, HMS Prince of Wales and HMS Royal Sovereign), but was completed to a modified...
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was named during the 1860 survey by HMS Plumper who charted all of the area and was named after Albert Edward - the Prince Of Wales, later Edward VII, who...
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