HMS Victor Emmanuel (1855)

HMS Victor Emmanuel was a screw-propelled 91-gun second-rate ship of the line of the Royal Navy, originally launched as HMS Repulse, but renamed shortly after being launched.

Victor Emmanuel was an Agamemnon-class ship of the line, a class originally designed as 80-gun sailing two-deckers.

[2] She served in the English Channel, the Mediterranean, and off the African coast during the Anglo-Ashanti wars.

[3] On 4 May 1861, Victor Emmanuel ran aground on the Leufchino Shoal, in the Mediterranean Sea.

[4] She was assigned to Hong Kong to replace HMS Princess Charlotte and used as a hospital and receiving ship there from 1873.

The Victor Emmanuel Hospital Ship; doctors checking on their patients
Victor Emmanuel Hospital Ship; patients relaxing along bird cage walk