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| Name | Windsor Castle (1858) | Explanation | |
| Type | First rate | Type | Three-decker |
| Launched | 26 August 1858 | Converted to screw | on the stocks |
| Hull | Wooden | Length | 204 feet |
| Propulsion | Screw | Men | 930 |
| Builders measure | 3101 tons | ||
| Displacement | 4971 tons | ||
| Guns | 116 | ||
| Fate | 1908 | Last in commission | - |
| Class | |||
| Ships book | ADM 135/75 | ||
| Career | |||
| Date | Event | ||
| Never fitted for sea. | |||
| 6 January 1855 | = Windsor Castle (laid down as Victoria). | ||
| 26 August 1858 | Launched at Pembroke Dockyard. | ||
| (1860) | Devonport | ||
| January 1869 | Renamed Cambridge, gunnery training ship, Devonport, replacing 3rd rate sailing ship Cambridge (1815-1869). | ||
| 12 August 1877 | Commanded by Captain Thomas Le Hunte Ward, gunnery ship, Devonport (tenders: Gorgon, Plucky and Sabrina) | ||
| 23 August 1880 - 24 August 1883 | Commanded by Captain Alexander Buller, Gunnery Ship, Devonport | ||
| 15 August 1883 - 25 August 1886 | Commanded by Captain George Stanley Bosanquet, gunnery ship, Devonport | ||
| (1890) | Gunnery ship, Devonport. Includes officers borne for Foudroyant and Perseus. Tenders: Bonetta, Bulldog, Cuckoo, Hecate, Plucky, Sabrina and Snap. | ||
| 1 January 1892 | Commanded by Archibald Lucius Douglas, Devonport | ||
| 24 June 1908 | Sold to Cox for breaking up at Falmouth. | ||
| Extracts from the Times newspaper | |||
| Date | Extract | ||
| Th 13 September 1860 | The following ships and gunboats in the first-class steam reserve could be got ready for the pendant at a short notice:- The Windsor Castle, 100; the Revenge, 91; the Orlando, 60; the Forth, 12; the Seahorse, 12; the Merlin, 6; and the Hyena, the Gleaner, the Nightingale, the Steady, the Spider, the Delight, the Goldfinch, the Charon, and the Lark. The following, in Keyham steam yard, are in a forward state:- The Howe, 121; the Gibraltar, 101; the Brunswick, 80; the Phoebe, 51; the Narcissus, 51; the Jason, 21; and the Desperate, 8. | ||
| Fr 9 September 1870 | The gunboat Pigeon, tender to the Cambridge, at Devonport, is to be commissioned forthwith, to take the place of the Trinculo, which was lately run down and sunk on her passage from Gibraltar for Malaga. | ||
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