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HMS Clarence (1827)
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HMS Clarence was an 84-gun second rate ship of the line
Ship of the line
A ship of the line was a type of naval warship constructed from the 17th through the mid-19th century to take part in the naval tactic known as the line of battle, in which two columns of opposing warships would manoeuvre to bring the greatest weight of broadside guns to bear...
of the Royal Navy
Royal Navy
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, launched on 25 July 1827 at Pembroke Dockyard.
She was lent to the Liverpool Catholic Reformatory Assn for use as a boys reformatory ship, and was destroyed by a fire set by 6 of the boys whilst at her mooring in the Mersey
Mersey
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in 1884.