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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 - January 1869 | Commanded by Captain Hon. Fitzgerald Algernon Charles Foley, gunnery ship, Devonport (replaced by Cambridge) | ||
| Extracts from the Times newspaper | |||
| Date | Extract | ||
| Ma 7 February 1842 | The Revenge, 78, Hon. Captain Waldegrave, is expected home every day to be paid off. She was at Lisbon on the 24th ult. with the Indus and Lynx. On the 21st ult. the Malabar, Calcutta, Cambridge and Lizard steamer, were at Gibraltar; and on the 22d the Vernon frigate, with four French ships of war, was at Cadiz. | ||
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