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| Name | Cambridge (1815) | Explanation | |
| Type | Third rate | ||
| Launched | 23 June 1815 | ||
| Hull | Wooden | ||
| Propulsion | Sail | ||
| Builders measure | 2139 tons | ||
| Displacement | |||
| Guns | 80 | ||
| Fate | 1869 | ||
| Class | |||
| Ships book | |||
| Note | 1856 gunnery ship | ||
| Snippets concerning this vessels career | |||
| Date | Event | ||
| (January 1840) | Out of commission at Sheerness | ||
| 1 February 1840 - 26 January 1843 | Commanded (from commissioning at Sheerness) by Captain Edward Barnard, Mediterranean (including operations on the coast of Syria in 1840 and the blockade of Alexandria) | ||
| (October 1843) | Out of commission at Devonport | ||
| 9 August 1856 - 17 January 1857 | Commanded by Captain Richard Strode Hewlett, gunnery ship, Devonport | ||
| 3 January 1857 - 1 April 1862 | Commanded by Captain Arthur William Jerningham, gunnery ship, Devonport | ||
| 1 April 1862 - 20 April 1863 | Commanded by Captain Leopold George Heath, gunnery ship, Devonport | ||
| 20 April 1863 - May 1867 | Commanded by Captain Charles Joseph Frederick Ewart, gunnery ship, Devonport | ||
| 7 May 1867 - 11 August 1871 | Commanded by Captain Hon. Fitzgerald Algernon Charles Foley, gunnery ship, Devonport (replaced by Cambridge) | ||
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