HMS Impregnable (1810)

HMS Impregnable was a 104-gun first rate three-decker ship of the line of the Royal Navy, launched on 1 August 1810 at Chatham.

In the attack on Algiers, Impregnable, isolated from the other ships was a large and tempting target, attracting attention from the Algerian gunners who raked her fore and aft, she was severely damaged.

The Impregnable saw little further action, apart from a short commission in the Mediterranean, and in 1819 she was placed in the Reserve Fleet at Devonport.

From May 1839 to October 1841 she had relieved HMS Royal Adelaide[citation needed] as the Commander-in-Chief's flagship moored at the entrance to the Hamoaze.

Three years later on 22 September 1891, she was once again re-named, this time HMS Caledonia, and became a Scottish boys training / school ship moored at Queensferry in the Firth of Forth.

The heavy oak beams of the cloister of St Conan’s Kirk were made from Caledonia and HMS Duke of Wellington.

Impregnable at The Grand Naval Review, Spithead , 24-25 June 1814
Quarterdeck of HMS Impregnable circa 1853
Impregnable in her new role in 1898 as HMS Caledonia in the Firth of Forth