HMS Clarence (1827)

History

UK
Name:	HMS Clarence
Ordered:	27 May 1819
Builder:	Pembroke Dockyard
Laid down:	August 1824
Launched:	25 July 1827
Fate:	Burnt, 17 January 1884 at Liverpool
General characteristics
Class and type:	Canopus-class ship of the line
Tons burthen:	2288 bm
Length:	193 ft 10 in (59.08 m) (gundeck)
Beam:	52 ft 4.5 in (15.964 m)
Depth of hold:	22 ft 6 in (6.86 m)
Propulsion:	Sails
Sail plan:	Full rigged ship
Armament:	84 guns: Gundeck: 28 × 32 pdrs, 2 × 68 pdr carronades Upper gundeck: 32 × 24 pdrs Quarterdeck: 6 × 24 pdrs, 10 × 32 pdr carronades Forecastle: 2 × 24 pdrs, 4 × 32 pdr carronades

HMS Clarence was an 84-gun second rate ship of the line of the Royal Navy, launched on 25 July 1827 at Pembroke Dockyard.

She was lent to the Liverpool Catholic Reformatory Association 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 in 1884.