HMS Lion and Implacable re-photographed from a book by J.Welch & Sons Marine Photographers, Portsmouth circa 1899. HMS Lion was a two-deck 80-gun second rate ship of the line of the Royal Navy, launched on 29 July 1847 at Pembroke Dockyard.  In 1871 Lion was activated as a training ship and was sold out of the navy for breaking up in 1905.