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HMS Liverpool (1860) (4th)
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The fourth Liverpool was a fourth rate screw frigate of 2,656 tons
builders measurement, 235ft long and 47ft wide and with 600hp engines.
Built at Devonport Dockyard and launched 30-Oct-1860. Armed with; She served in initially in North America and the West Indies Station, and later returned to the Channel Squadron. She was placed in the Steam Reserve at Devonport in August-1867. She was recommissioned on 8-May-1869 as flagship of a detached squadron, “having its object the display of the British Flag … in the distant parts of the world.” This Squadron, known as the “Flying Squadron”, sailed from Plymouth on 18 June 1869 and circumnavigated the globe before returning home in November-1870 having sailed over 53,000 miles. Liverpool was paid off into reserve in December 1870, declared obsolete in 1872 and sold for breaking 26-jun-1875.
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30 November, 2012.
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