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was appointed in command from 16 July 1902. In September that year it was announced that her engines and boilers would be removed, and the vessel converted into a hulk. In 1903, with her machinery removed, she was a training ship for boy artificers at
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returned to Portsmouth, where she was refitted, receiving new boilers and launching rails for torpedoes. She served as Pacific flagship from January 1885 until December 1888, and was present at the official opening of the
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between February 1890 and September 1892. She returned to the reserve at Devonport, where she remained until July 1900. She was disarmed to become a depot ship at Plymouth. Captain
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was appointed in command on 11 July 1902, for command of Fleet Reserve at Devonport, but the appointment was cancelled and Captain
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dressed, most likely on the occasion of the official opening of the Canadian Pacific Railway in Vancouver harbour in 1887
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but was not damaged. She paid off in 1877 to be prepared for transfer to the Pacific as flagship, replacing
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Returning home, she was for a short time in reserve at Devonport, and was then flagship at
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was off Chile, an explosion occurred caused by a drying compound called "
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in 1887 for both ceremonial reasons and protection against a rumoured
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The two sister-ships, which were built side by side by
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battleship of the Victorian era, the sister-ship of
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HMS Triumph
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Palmers Shipbuilding and Iron Company
Jarrow
Swiftsure class
battleship
Ship-rigged
knots
9-inch (230 mm) muzzle-loading rifles
broadside ironclad
HMS Swiftsure
Swiftsure class
Palmers
Palmers Shipbuilding and Iron Company
Jarrow
Northumberland
fitting out
Channel Fleet
Benjamin Whitworth
HMS Shah
indecisive action
Huascar
xerotine siccative
Canadian Pacific Railway
Vancouver harbour

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