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HMS Garnet (ship)
Corporate body · 1877 - 1904

Composite screw corvette, 2,120 tons. Served on the Canadian Forces Pacific Station from 1891 to 1894.

HMS Ganges (ship)
Corporate body · 1821 - 1929

2nd Rate Ship of the Line built Bombay Dockyard, 3,594 tons. She served on the Canadian Forces Pacific Station from 1858 to 1860 as a flagship. She was the last sailing ship to serve as a flagship in Royal Navy. She became a training vessel in 1865 under several names and was broken up in 1929.

HMS Forward (ship)
Corporate body · 1855 - 1869

Wood screw gunboat, 232 tons. Served on Canadian Forces Pacific Station from 1860 to 1869 and sold in Esquimalt in 1869.

Corporate body · 1830 - 1985; 1994 - present

HMS Excellent was a Royal Navy gunnery training establishment in Portsmouth harbour between 1830 and 1985. Training was initially done in the hulk of a wooden warship named Excellent built in 1797. In 1886, the school moved ashore to Whale Island in. The school finally closed in 1985. HMS Excellent re-opened in 1994 and is now the location of the Damage Control School.