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Formidable, 1825
Type: 2nd rate ; Armament 84
Launched : 19 May 1825 ;
Disposal date or year : 1906
BM: 2289 tons ; Displacement: 3594 tons
Notes:
1 Jan 1820 building or ordered to be built, with a circular stern.
1830 Sheerness
16 Feb 1835 is reported to be commissioning as Flag Ship in the Medway.
15 Sep 1840 Woolwich, The Formidable will be completed at Chatham with all possible despatch, and she and the Monarch are two of the ten ships-of-the-line, which, it is said, are ordered to be brought forward for immediate service.
19 Sep 1840 Medway is getting ready for commission and the shipwrights are working 13 hours a day on her.
2 Dec 1840 is ready for commission being masted, and all her stores prepared.
26 Dec 1840 Chatham, has had her lower masts rigged and topmasts pointed, and is ordered to be sent to the Sheerness ordinary, where they will remain until required for sea.
1 Mar 1841 at Sheerness.
27 Aug 1841, Chatham, has been commissioned.
28 Aug 1841, Captain Sir T. Troubridge, C.C. ; Lieutenants R. H. B. Rowley, Hon. G. D. Keane and John F. Warne ; Purser G. Nicholls ; Mate W. H. Connolly, appointed to the Formidable ;
4 Sep 1841, Volunteer 1st Class P. Lakin, appointed to the Formidable.
7 Sep 1841, the Monkey left Woolwich for Sheerness, with Royal Marines for the Formidable.
11 Sep 1841, Lieutenant Thomas Mitchell, appointed to the Formidable
18 Sep 1841, Naval Instructor T. Eastman, appointed to the Formidable.
2 Oct 1841, Master James Tonking, acting, appointed to the Formidable.
30 Oct 1841, Portsmouth, her top-gallant masts are pointed, and her holds and tiers stowed ; part of her guns and all her shot and other stores are on board ; the remainder of her guns have yet to arrived here, and is still in want of some good petty officers and seamen. She is shortly expected to go into dock to have her copper cleaned.
6 Nov 1841, Mates M'Naghten and Isaacson ; Midshipman H. G. Simpson, appointed to the Formidable.
20 Nov 1841, Volunteers First Class H. M. Bingham, appointed to the Formidable.
11 Dec 1841, Captain Sir Charles Sullivan, Bart., appointed in command, in place of Captain Troubridge, promoted.
20 Dec 1848 Sheerness
1860 Flag Ship, Sheerness
3 July 1860 Commissioned Sheerness.
Dec 1862 Flag Ship, Sheerness
1864 Stationary Ship, Home Station, Sheerness. Number of Cases of Disease and Injury.
1869 Training Ship
1870 Training Ship, Bristol
1879 Training Ship, Bristol
1890 Training Ship, Bristol