Lot 646: Isaac Walter Jenner (1836-1901)

H.M.S. Royal Albert with the fleet in Plymouth Sound
signed 'W. Jenner.' (lower left)
oil on board
6 1/4 x 9 3/4 in. (17 x 24.5 cm.)

H.M.S. Royal Albert, 121 guns, was designed along traditional lines by Oliver Lang, the Master Shipwright at Woolwich, and laid down in the yard there in March 1844. When begun, she was the largest ship-of-the-line ever intended for the Royal Navy but building was repeatedly halted and, in 1852, she was one of the vessels selected for conversion to screw propulsion. Fitted with 500nhp. engines, she was eventually launched on 13 t h May 1854 having spent a full ten years on the stocks. At 3,726 tons, she was an enormous vessel and measured 232 1/2 feet in length with a 61 foot beam. After her trials in November 1854, during which she made 10 knots under steam, she went straight to the Crimea where she acted as flagship to Rear-Admiral Sir Edmund Lyon's Black Sea Fleet and saw considerable action during the course of the war with Russia. Returning home to become Flagship to the Channel Fleet in 1859, her stern was found to be so defective in 1861 that she was pronounced unfit for further service. Paid off and thereafter laid up, she was eventually broken up in 1884.

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