HMS Liverpool was a fourth-rate frigate

Frigate

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 of the Royal Navy

Royal Navy

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. She was ordered on 31 March 1855, but building did not commence until 14 November 1859 and she was launched at Devonport Dockyard

HMNB Devonport

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 on 30 October 1860, in the same year that the famous iron-hulled Warrior

HMS Warrior (1860)

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 was launched.

During her first commission, she served in the North America

North America

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 and West Indies Stations and later the Channel Squadron, until she was placed in "Steam Reserve" at Devonport

HMNB Devonport

Her Majesty's Naval Base Devonport , is one of three operating bases in the United Kingdom for the Royal Navy . HMNB Devonport is located in Devonport, in the west of the city of Plymouth in Devon, England...

 in August 1867.

She was re-commissioned, like previous ships of the same name on the 8 May 1869 as flagship of a detached squadron known as the Special Flying Squadron. The squadron's mission was an early form of "flag waving" to display British naval power and prowess across the world. This squadron, known as the "flying squadron" consisted of HM ships Barrosa, Endymion

HMS Endymion (1865)

HMS Endymion was a 21-gun wooden screw frigate, the third of four ships of this name to serve in the Royal Navy. She was the last wooden frigate built at Deptford Dockyard. She was commissioned in 1866 and spent much of her service based at Malta. In 1869–70 she sailed around the world as part of a...

, Liffey, Liverpool, Phoebe and Scylla. The squadron left Portsmouth

Portsmouth

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 on 18 July 1869 and circumnavigated the globe before returning home in November 1870, having sailed 53,000 miles. Liverpool was paid off into reserve in December of the year she returned. She was subsequently declared obsolete in 1872 and was sold for breaking up on 26 June 1875.

External links

• Article on Liverpool from The Sydney Morning Herald
  The Sydney Morning Herald
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  , 13 December 1869