The training ship 'Fisgard' (?) off the Royal Naval College, Greenwich, in 1877. The training ship 'Fisgard' (?) off the Royal Naval College, Greenwich, Claude Thomas Stanfield Moore

'warspite' (a former two-decker reduced to a frigate) was a training ship for the marine society from 1862 but, until lost to a fire in 1876, was moored off woolwich not greenwich: so was its successor of the same name. It is more likely that the vessel shown is the leda-class 46-gun frigate 'fisgard' which from 1848 was the commodore's guardship at woolwich but also used to train engineers up to 1862, a function taken over the the royal naval college at greenwich from its inception in 1873[1]. Object Type: painting. Date: 1877. Dimensions: height: 30.5 cm (12 in) ; width: 45.5 cm (17.9 in). Medium: oil on canvas. Collection: National Maritime Museum. View of Greenwich in 1877 Showing the Training Ship HMS Warspite