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| Name | Royal William (1833) | Explanation | |
| Type | First rate | Type | Two-decker |
| Launched (Sail) | 2 April 1833 | Converted to screw | 9 February 1860 |
| Hull | Wooden | Length | 217 feet |
| Propulsion | Sail | Men | 830 |
| Builders measure | 2694 tons | Builders measure (as screw) | 2694 tons |
| Displacement | Displacement (as screw) | 4579 tons | |
| Guns | 120 | Guns (as screw) | 89 |
| Fate | 1899 | Last in commission | - |
| Class | Class (as screw) | Caledonia | |
| Ships book | |||
| Snippets concerning career prior to conversion | |||
| Date | Event | ||
| 2 April 1833 | Launched as 1st rate sailing ship at Pembroke Dockyard | ||
| January 1840 | Out of commission at Plymouth | ||
| 16 February 1854 - 16 June 1856 | Commanded by Captain John Kingcome, flagship of Commodore Michael Seymour, guard ship of Ordinary, Devonport, flagship of dockyard superintendent Commodore Michael Seymour and later James Hanway Plumridge | ||
| 16 June 1856 - 5 May 1857 | Commanded by Captain Frederick Hutton, flagship of Rear-Admiral James Hanway Plumridge, guard ship of Ordinary, Devonport | ||
| 5 May 1857 - 31 March 1859 | Commanded (until paying off at Plymouth) by Captain Woodford John Williams, guard ship of Ordinary, Plymouth (replaced by Royal Adelaide) | ||
| Career as unarmoured wooden screw vessel | |||
| Date | Event | ||
| 9 February 1860 | Completed as screw at Devonport Dockyard | ||
| Never fitted for sea as screw | |||
| 1885 | Renamed Clarence, training ship in the Mersey (lent to Liverpool Roman Catholic Reformatory Society to replace previous Clarence deliberately burned by inmates 1884.01) | ||
| 26 July 1899 | Burnt by accident | ||
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