Wood screw corvette, 2,187 tons. Served on the Canadian Forces Pacific Station from 1856 to 1860 and then again in 1869.
Composite (wood on iron frames) screw corvette, 1,420 tons. Served on the Canadian Forces Pacific Station from 1884 to 1885, and again from 1894 to 1897. Served as Royal Navy Volunteer Reserve drill ship on Rover Tyne from 1904 to 1947.
Wood screw corvette, 2,187 tons. Served on the Canadian Forces Pacific Station from 1866 to 1867, and again from 1871 to 1873.
The first HMS Shah was a 19th-century unarmoured iron hulled, wooden sheathed frigate of Britain's Royal Navy designed by Sir Edward Reed. She was originally to be named HMS Blonde but was renamed following the visit of the Shah of Persia in 1873.
She was only in service for three years, as the flagship of the British Pacific Station under Admiral de Horsey. She fought an action, the Battle of Pacocha, in company with the corvette HMS Amethyst on 29 May 1877 with the Peruvian armoured turret ship Huáscar which had been taken over by rebels opposed to the Peruvian Government and, it was feared, could be used to attack British shipping.
In December 1904 the ship was converted to a coal storage hulk and renamed C.470. The hulk was sold on 19 September 1919, and subsequently wrecked in 1926 at Bermuda.
There is a monument to the ship's crew men in Victoria Park, Portsmouth.
Cruiser, 9,100 tons.
Wood screw gun vessel, 860 tons. Served on the Canadian Forces Pacific Station from 1866 to 1872. After 1865, she was rigged as a 3 masted barque and was sold at Esquimalt in 1872.
Destroyer, 360 tons. Served on the Canadian Forces Pacific Station from 1898 to 1903.
50-gun, 4th screw frigate, 2,066 tons. Served as a flagship on the Canadian Forces Pacific Station from 1863 to 1867. She was originally built as a sailing frigate and was converted as screw frigate in185/1860.
6,910 ton, iron-armoured battleship. Iron armoured ship, 6,910 tons. Served as a flagship on the Canadian Forces Pacific Station from 1882 to 1885, and again from 1888 to 1889. While surveying depths off the entrance to the Strait of Juan de Fuca, Swiftsure discovered a large bank that was named for the ship.
HMS Swiftsure had a steam engine but was also fitted as a sailing vessel and was known for her sailing qualities. While on the Pacific Station, she was rigged as a barque. In 1893, during annual fleet manoeuvres in British waters, the Swiftsure spread sail to keep up with the ordered formation speed. This was the last occasion that a British battleship spread sail when operating as part of a formation.