- Notes
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}}{{Infobox ship characteristics | Hide header= | Header caption=[1] | Vanguard|ship of the line|3}} | Ship tons burthen=2596 bm | 190|ft|m|abbr=on}} (gundeck) | 56|ft|9|in|m|abbr=on}} | Ship draught= | 22|ft|6|in|m|abbr=on}} | Ship sail plan=Full rigged ship | Ship propulsion=Sails | Ship complement= | Ship armament=*78 guns:- Gundeck: 26 × 32 pdrs, 2 × 68 pdr carronades
- Upper gundeck: 26 × 32 pdrs, 2 × 68 pdr carronades
- Quarterdeck: 14 × 32 pdrs
- Forecastle: 2 × 32 pdrs, 2 × 32 pdr carronades
- Poop deck: 4 × 18 pdr carronades
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}} | HMS Goliath was an 80-gun two-deck second rate ship of the line of the Royal Navy, launched on 25 July 1842 at Chatham Dockyard.[1]Goliath was fitted with screw propulsion in 1857.[1] In 1870, she was converted into a pauper training ship for workhouse boys. Goliath was destroyed by fire on 22 December 1875 while at anchor in the River Thames near Grays.[2] Of the approximately 500 on board, 23 boys were killed.{{citation needed|date=February 2018}} Notes1. ^1 2 Lavery, Ships of the Line vol.1, p191.
2. ^The Times (London), Thursday, 23 December 1875, p.5
References{{refbegin}}- Lavery, Brian (2003) The Ship of the Line - Volume 1: The development of the battlefleet 1650-1850. Conway Maritime Press. {{ISBN|0-85177-252-8}}.
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