HMS Prince Consort was the first ship to carry this name in the Royal Navy.

[4] Laid down as HMS Triumph, at HM Royal Dockyard, Pembroke as a 91-gun screw second-rate line-of-battle ship, she was renamed HMS Prince Consort on 14 February 1862 following the death of Prince Albert of Saxe-Coburg and Gotha, the husband of Queen Victoria.

[5] Her first posting after commissioning was to Liverpool; on her passage there, in an Irish Sea gale, it was found that she did not have enough scuppers fitted to discharge seawater coming aboard, and almost foundered.

From 1867 to 1871 she formed part of the Mediterranean Fleet, until she was brought home for a further re-armament.

as being the second-worst roller in the entire fleet, being exceeded in this only by HMS Lord Clyde.