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| Name | Cumberland (1842) | Explanation | |
| Type | Third rate | ||
| Launched | 21 October 1842 | ||
| Hull | Wooden | ||
| Propulsion | Sail | ||
| Builders measure | 2214 tons | ||
| Displacement | |||
| Guns | 70 | ||
| Fate | 1889 | ||
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| Note | 1870 t.s.1889.02.17 burnt on Clyde. | ||
| Snippets concerning this vessels career | |||
| Date | Event | ||
| 31 August 1850 - 6 January 1851 | Commanded by Captain Peter Richards, guard ship of Ordinary, Chatham | ||
| 7 January 1851 - 27 October 1854 | Commanded (until paying off at Chatham) by Captain George Henry Seymour, flagship of Vice-Admiral George Francis Seymour, North America and West Indies, then (1854) the Baltic during the Russian War | ||
| 1 April 1857 - 26 August 1858 | Commanded (from commissioning at Sheerness) by Captain John Bourmaster Dickson, flagship of Rear-Admiral Provo William Parry Wallis, south-east coast of America | ||
| 23 August 1858 - August 1859 | Commanded by Captain Henry Downing Rogers, flagship of Rear-Admiral Stephen Lushington, south-east coast of America | ||
| 10 January 1860 - 13 February 1862 | Commanded by Captain Charles Frederick Schomberg, guard ship of the steam reserve, Sheerness (replacing Cressy) | ||
| 13 February 1862 - 14 April 1863 | Commanded by Captain Thomas Pickering Thompson, guard ship of the steam reserve, Sheerness | ||
| 26 April 1863 - 26 April 1865 | Commanded by Captain William King Hall, guard ship of the steam reserve, Sheerness | ||
| 11 July 1865 - 25 April 1866 | Commanded by Captain George Granville Randolph, guard ship of the steam reserve, Sheerness | ||
| 5 May 1866 - 29 October 1866 | Commanded by Captain George William Preedy, guard ship of the steam reserve, Sheerness | ||
| 30 October 1866 - 31 December 1868 | Commanded by Captain Arthur Auckland Leopold Pedro Cochrane, guard ship of the steam reserve, Sheerness | ||
| 3 December 1868 - 1869 | Commanded by Captain William Charles Chamberlain, Superintendent of Chatham Dockyard | ||
| 1869 | Lent to the Clyde Training Ship Association (and replaced at Sheerness by Pembroke) | ||
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