HMS Queen (1839)
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HMS Queen was a 110 gun first rate ship of the line of the Royal Navy.
Queen displaced 3,083 tons. She was launched at Portsmouth in 1839. In 1842 she was visited by Queen Victoria. In 1854, she participated in the bombardment of Sebastopol, Ukraine during the Crimean War. The famous Timothy the tortoise, who was about 160 years old when she died in 2004, was the ship's mascot during this time. In 1859 the ship was fitted with a screw propellor.
The ship was broken up in 1871.
See HMS Queen for other ships of that name.
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