HMS Worcester:
Link to Training ship site
Pictured in 1921 during the Royal visit of the Prince of Wales, later Edward VIII.
Photographs reproduced with kind permission of Mr. and Mrs. A. Forman.
HMS Worcester, which is pictures here, is the second ship of three to be used as a Nautical Training ship for Officer Cadets and Midshipmen for the Merchant Navy, Royal Navy and Royal Naval Reserve. She was laid down in 1833 as the Royal Sovereign, a 4, 725 ton Line-of Battleship, she was converted to steam whilst still on the stocks at Portsmouth. She underwent various name changes and designs whilst under construction from 110 guns in 1833 increasing to 116 guns 18859, 86 guns in 1860 and finally being fitted with 74 guns of Trafalgar pattern for use as a Coastguard vessel off the Irish Coast between 1866-86. She in fact took twenty-seven years to build with not a Trade Union in sight one wonders what the problems were! She was handed over in 1876 and her name was changed from HMS Frederick William to HMS Worcester in which role she served until 1945.