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Camperdown, 1825
Type: 1st rate ; Armament 106
Notes:

Jul 1830 Sheerness

1825 Trafalgar (1820) renamed Camperdown.

23 Jun 1839 Sheerness, to be taken into dock.

2 Oct 1840 Sheerness, an attempt was made to set fire to the Camperdown, undergoing repairs, but it was extinguished before it could cause any serious damage.

3 Oct 1840 Woolwich will sail tomorrow morning (Sunday) for Sheerness and Portsmouth. She embarked 120 men of the Woolwich division of Royal Marines, for service on the Camperdown, appointed to active service as a guard ship, under the flag of Admiral Sir H. Digby, in place of the Howe, 120 gun ship, on her way to Spithead to raise men, and with the Britannia proceed to the Mediterranean.

15 Oct 1840 Portsmouth, The Salamander took round to the eastward the officers of the Camperdown lent to the Howe, and army invalids.

17 Oct 1840 Gunner John Moncreaff, appointed to the Camperdown.

31 Oct 1840, Chaplain Rev. Joseph Cooper, appointed to Camperdown.

7 Nov 1840 Purser Goate Gurdon, appointed to the Camperdown ;

21 Nov 1840 Portsmouth Lieutenant Caffin, of the Excellent. has been ordered to Sheerness, to superintend the fitting of the gun carriages for the Camperdown, Monarch, and Vernon.

1 Mar 1841 at Sheerness.

18 Dec 1841, Captain Francis Brace, appointed to the Camperdown.

Jan 1848 Portsmouth, in Ordinary

20 Dec 1848 Portsmouth, in Ordinary

1854 Harbour Service.