Royal Adelaide HMS
Royal Adelaide, (ex London, renamed May 10, 1827). A 1st Rate of 104 guns, she was nine years on the stocks before being launched at Plymouth Dockyard on July28, 1828. She was one of the earliest Royal Navy ships to have planking right round the bow at the height of the forecastle. However attempts to stengthen the stern in a similar way meant depriving the officers of their large windows and glass doors and met with indignant opposition. They objected to being deprived of their comfort, so the windows and glass doors remained open to devastating broadsides from astern. The figurehead is of Adelaide, later to be the Queen of William IV. SG1128
