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Monday, December 6, 2021

HMS Caledonia in 1898 by the Forth of Firth bridge.

HMS Caledonia was a training ship launched in 1810 as the 98-gun second rate HMS Impregnable (1810). She became a training ship in 1862, was renamed HMS Kent in 1888, she was once again re-named, this time HMS Caledonia on 22 September 1891, and became a Scottish boys training / school ship moored at Queensferry in the Firth of Forth. As HMS Caledonia, she was to spend the next 15 years at anchor in the Firth of Forth, and was sold for breaking up in 1906.



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