HMS Howe (1860)

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The former HMS Howe as the school ship HMS Impregnable in the 1890s.
History
United Kingdom
Name	HMS Howe
Ordered	3 April 1854
Builder	Pembroke Dockyard
Laid down	10 March 1856
Launched	7 March 1860
Renamed	Bulwark — 3 December 1885 Impregnable — 27 September 1886 Bulwark (again) — December 1919
Fate	Sold to break up, 18 February 1921
General characteristics
Displacement	Unknown
Tons burthen	4,236 tons
Length	260 ft (79 m)
Beam	60 ft 10 in (18.54 m)
Propulsion	Sails
Armament	121 (designed); actually never carried more than 12 guns of various weights of shot

HMS Howe was built as a 121-gun screw first-rate ship of the line of the Royal Navy. She and her sister HMS Victoria were the first and only British three-decker ships of the line to be designed from the start for screw propulsion, but the Howe was never completed for sea service (and never served under her original name). During the 1860s, the first ironclad battleships gradually made unarmoured two- and three-deckers obsolete.

The highest number of guns she ever actually carried was 12, when she finally entered service as the training ship Bulwark in 1885.

Howe was named after Admiral Richard Howe. She was renamed a second time to Impregnable on 27 September 1886, but reverted to Bulwark in 1919 shortly before being sold for breaking up in 1921. The timbers were used to refurbish in the Tudor revivalist style the interior and fascia of the Liberty Store in London.^[1]