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HMS Orion (1854)

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The HMS Orion was a 91-gun screw ship launched in 1854. It was commanded from this time through to late 1857 by Captain John Elphinstone Erskine, and saw service during the Baltic war against Russia in 1855. The Orion had a crew complement of about 750 men and boys. It was broken up in the 1860's.

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