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1839 - Launch of INDUS

16th March. The Indus was launched from the Dockyard. This 78 gun ship-of-the-line had been 16 years on the stocks. Her frames were cut from teak and brought in from Bombay, India.

She was hulked in 1860 and became harbour flagship at Plymouth until she was sold for breaking up in 1898.

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