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PART OF THE GUNDECK OF TRAINING SHIP HMVS NELSON. LAUNCHED IN ENGLAND ON 1814-07-04 AS A THREE DECK SAILING WARSHIP NELSON WAS CONVERTED LATER TO A STEAM SCREW SHIP AND ON 1860-02-07 WAS UNDOCKED WITH ONE DECK REMOVED. IN 1867-02 SHE WAS LENT TO THE VICTORIAN NAVAL FORCES AND USED AS A TRAINING SHIP. IN THE 1870S ANOTHER DECK WAS REMOVED AND THE VESSEL WAS AGAIN CLASSIFIED AS A WARSHIP. NELSON WAS LAID UP IN 1891 AND ON 1898-04-28 WAS SOLD FOR SERVICE AS A STORES HULK IN SYDNEY HARBOUR. SHE WAS SUBSEQUENTLY BROKEN UP IN HOBART, TASMANIA, IN 1928-09. (NAVAL HISTORICAL COLLECTION)
PROBABLY ENGLAND C. 1860. HMVS NELSON, A WOODEN AUXILARY STEAM BATTLESHIP, AFTER HER CONVERSION TO A TRAINING SHIP FOR THE VICTORIAN COLONIAL NAVY. THE NELSON, A LINE-OF-BATTLE SHIP, COMPLETED IN 1815
WILLIAMSTOWN 1874-03. HMVS NELSON IN THE ALFRED GRAVING DOCK. WORKMEN CAN BE SEEN CARRYING OUT REPAIRS TO THE SHIPS RUDDER. AT ABOUT THIS TIME THE NELSON HAD A FURTHER DECK REMOVED AND WAS RECLASSIFIE
Williamstown, Victoria. Between 1870 and 1879. Port broadside view of the wooden steam battleship HMVS Nelson. In the 1860s the British Admiralty offered the ship on permanent loan to the Victorian Go
WILLIAMSTOWN, VIC. 1874. HMVS NELSON, A WOODEN AUXILARY STEAM TRAINING SHIP, IN THE ALFRED GRAVING DOCK. A FORMER BRITISH LINE-OF-BATTLE SHIP SHE WAS THE LAST AND THE LARGEST WOODEN WAR SHIP BUILT IN
PORT PHILLIP BAY, VIC. 1871-04-09. COPY OF A LITHOGRAPH DEPICTING THE ARRIVAL OF THE COAST DEFENCE TURRET SHIP HMVS CERBERUS AT MELBOURNE AFTER HER DELIVERY VOYAGE FROM GREAT BRITAIN. NOTE THE BUILT U
Portrait of 24029 Able Seaman (AB) John Robinson Young, HMAS Cerberus, of Hughenden, Qld, behind the wheel of HMVS Nelson. AB Young later served with HMAS Sydney and was killed in action when she was
