The Frigate D. Fernando II e Glória was the last exclusively sailing warship of the Portuguese Navy, the last big ship built at the Royal shipyard in Daman and the last vessel that made the so-called "Indian Run", a route connecting Portugal to its old possession in India for more than three centuries.
She was named after D. Fernando Saxe Coburgo-Gotha, husband of Queen D. Maria II of Portugal, and to the Queen herself, named Maria da Glória.
During her operational period, between 1845 and 1878, she sailed more than 100.000 nautical miles, the equivalent to five turns around the world.
In 1963 she suffered a major fire which almost destroyed her completely and her burned wooden-hull remained beached at the mud-flats of the Tagus river for the next 29 years, until 1992, when the restoration began, which lasted until 1998.
The D. Fernando II e Glória is nowadays a museum ship that testimonies life aboard of a 19th century ship and is one of the oldest armed ships in the world.