"Victoria"'s slightly enlarged sister ship, HMS "Howe", was launched on 7 March 1860, and achieved on her sea trials on 1 June 1861 (not masted or stored) for an engine power of 4,564 ihp, but was never completed for sea as a line-of-battle ship.She first entered service in 1885 as a training ship at Plymouth, renamed "Bulwark" (6,557 tons, 12 Guns).