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HMS Repulse (1868)

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HMS Repulse was a wooden-hulled, central-battery ironclad laid down as a 91-gun, second-rate Bulwark-class ship of the line. Work was suspended for conversion into an Ironclad, but suspended again until the performance of earlier conversions from wooden ships of the line could be assessed. It only resumed in 1866, completed in 1870, the last British wooden-hulled ironclad completed. She was assigned as guard ship in Scotland , then flagship of the Pacific Station in 1872, until back home in 1877 while rounding the Horn under sail. She was placed in reserve while back home, until re-commissioned in 1881 as guard ship and back to reserve in 1885, sold for scrap in 1889.

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