page_title: HMS St George (1840)
hierarchical_section_title: HMS St George (1840)
caption_attribution_description: English: Dockyard Fire, 1840, by Thomas Lyde Hornbrook LLR NELMS A 141-001 View of the Fire in Her Majesty's Dock Yard, Devonport, on the morning of the 27th September 1840 North East Lincolnshire Museum
context_page_description: HMS St George was a 120-gun first rate ship of the line of the Royal Navy, launched on 27 August 1840 at Plymouth.
  While in the dockyard and before being put to sea she was at risk of destruction. The dockyard suffered severe damage in a large scale fire on 25 September 1840, it started in the North Dock on HMS Talavera and Imogene were completely gutted, threatened the HMS Minden, and spread to nearby buildings and equipment. Estimates for the damage were put at £150,000 in the values of the day, and would have totalled £500,000 had the fire not been contained by demolishing several surrounding buildings.
  She was fitted with screw propulsion in 1859, and was sold out of the service in 1883.
context_section_description: HMS St George was a 120-gun first rate ship of the line of the Royal Navy, launched on 27 August 1840 at Plymouth.
  While in the dockyard and before being put to sea she was at risk of destruction. The dockyard suffered severe damage in a large scale fire on 25 September 1840, it started in the North Dock on HMS Talavera and Imogene were completely gutted, threatened the HMS Minden, and spread to nearby buildings and equipment. Estimates for the damage were put at £150,000 in the values of the day, and would have totalled £500,000 had the fire not been contained by demolishing several surrounding buildings.
  She was fitted with screw propulsion in 1859, and was sold out of the service in 1883.
caption: The Fire on the morning of 27 September, 1840, which threatened to destroy the dockyard. St George pictured was far enough away from the blazing Talavera to escape destruction.
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