HMS Ocean (1805)
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Template:Infobox ship imageTemplate:Infobox ship careerTemplate:Infobox ship characteristicsHMS Ocean was a 98-gun second-rate ship of the line of the Royal Navy, launched from Woolwich Dockyard on 24 October 1805. She was the only ship built to her draught, and designed by Sir John Henslow.<ref name="Lavery, SoLv1 p183" />
She was converted to serve as a depot ship in 1841, and was eventually broken up in 1875.<ref name="Lavery, SoLv1 p183" /> Her figurehead is preserved at Queenborough, Kent.<ref name=Simper>Simper, River Medway and the Swale, p2</ref>
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- Mid-Victorian RN vessel HMS Ocean. William Loney RN - Background. Retrieved 4 November 2008.
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