High Quality Content by WIKIPEDIA articles! HMS Defence was the lead ship of the Defence class of 1859, her sister ship being HMS Resistance. Line drawing of HMS Defence from Brassey's Naval Annual 1888. After completion in 1862 she served in the Channel Fleet until 1866, when she paid off in Plymouth for refit and re-armament. She returned to the Channel Fleet in 1868, and in 1869 she was sent to the North America station to relieve HMS Royal Alfred. She served in the Mediterranean from 1871 to 1872, and had a further lengthy refit in Plymouth between 1872 and 1874. She was the guardship on the Shannon from 1874 to 1876, and then served a further three years in the Channel until 1879.

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