House of York Warwick himself changed sides, and supported Margaret of Anjou and the king's jealous brother George, Duke of Clarence, in briefly restoring Henry in 1470-71. However, Edward regained his throne, and the House of Lancaster was wiped out with the death of Henry VI himself, in the Tower of London in 1471. In 1478, the continued trouble caused by Clarence led to his execution in the Tower of London; popularly he is thought to have been drowned in a butt of malmsey wine. On Edward's death in 1483, the crown passed to his twelve-year-old son Edward. Edward IV's younger brother Richard,
TSS Duke of Clarence in 1930. "Duke of Clarence" was long, with a beam of and a depth of . As built, she was . She was later listed in Lloyd's Register as , . A pair of Laird Brothers three-cylinder triple-expansion steam engines, each of which had cylinders of , and diameter by stroke, connected to twin screws provided her propulsion. The engines gave "Duke of Clarence" a top speed of . Ordered by the Lancashire and Yorkshire Railway (LYR), "Duke of Clarence" was built at Laird Brothers, Birkenhead, as the first of seven ships that they delivered between 1892 and 1909. It