HMS Highflyer (1851)

HMS Highflyer (1851)

HMS "Highflyer" was a 21 gun wooden screw frigate of the Royal Navy. She was built by Mare, of Blackwall and launched on 13 August 1851. She spent twenty years in service before being broken up at Portsmouth in May 1871.

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