The original HMS Boscawan, named after Admiral Boscawen, was a 70-gun third rate ship of the line of the Royal Navy,
launched on 3 April 1844. In 1873 she left Portland and was converted into the Wellesley Training Ship, being replaced by
HMS Trafalgar, pictured below which took on the name Boscawen and is the ship on which George would have served.
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The former HMS Trafalgar, seen here at Portland, was a broadened Caledonia class and had been built at Woolwich as a 120 gun
First Rate ship of 2694 tons, completed in 1841, and was Britain's last wooden 1st rate line of battle ship. She was converted to a
two deck screw ship of 90 guns at Chatham in 1858-59 and in 1873 was renamed HMS Boscawen, when she became a seaman boy's
training ship at Portland. She was sold in 1905, the year in which boy's training became shore based at Shotley near Ipswich.
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