HMS St George (1840)

HMS St George was a 120-gun first rate ship of the line of the Royal Navy, launched on 27 August 1840 at Plymouth.

[1] While in the dockyard and before being put to sea she was at risk of destruction.

The dockyard suffered severe damage in a large scale fire on 25 September 1840; it started in the North Dock on HMS Talavera and Imogene were completely gutted, threatened HMS Minden, and spread to nearby buildings and equipment.

Estimates for the damage were put at £150,000 in the values of the day, and would have totalled £500,000 had the fire not been contained by demolishing several surrounding buildings.

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The Fire on the morning of 27 September 1840, which threatened to destroy the dockyard. St George pictured was far enough away from the blazing Talavera to escape destruction.