English ship Hope

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English Red Ensign 1620.svg England
Name:Hope
Builder: Deptford Dockyard
Renamed:Assurance in 1604
Fate: Sold 1645
General characteristics as built
Class and type: Galleon
Tons burthen: 403
Length: 94 ft (29 m) (keel)
Beam: 33 ft (10 m)
Depth of hold: 13 ft (4.0 m)
Armament: 30 guns
General characteristics after 1603-04 rebuild [1]
Class and type: 34-gun great ship
Tons burthen: 451
Length: 95 ft (29 m) (keel)
Beam: 33 ft (10 m)
Depth of hold: 14 ft 6 in (4.42 m)
Sail plan: Full-rigged ship
Complement: 250 (1633)
Armament: 34 carriage guns of various weights of shot, plus 4 smaller weapons

Hope was a galleon of the English navy, built in 1559. She was rebuilt in 1583 "into the form of a galleass", and then again rebuilt from 1603 to 1604 when she was renamed Assurance. [Note 1]

Galleon ship type

Galleons were large, multi-decked sailing ships first used by the Spanish as armed cargo carriers and later adopted by other European states from the 16th to 18th centuries during the age of sail and were the principal fleet units drafted for use as warships until the Anglo-Dutch Wars of the mid-1600s. Galleons generally carried three or more masts with a lateen fore-and-aft rig on the rear masts, were carvel built with a prominent squared off raised stern, and used square-rigged sail plans on their fore-mast and main-masts.

Kingdom of England historic sovereign kingdom on the British Isles (927–1649; 1660–1707)

The Kingdom of England was a sovereign state on the island of Great Britain from 927, when it emerged from various Anglo-Saxon kingdoms until 1707, when it united with Scotland to form the Kingdom of Great Britain.

History of the Royal Navy history of the naval force of the United Kingdom

The official history of the Royal Navy began with the formal establishment of the Royal Navy as the national naval force of the Kingdom of England in 1660, following the Restoration of King Charles II to the throne. However, for more than a thousand years before that there had been English naval forces varying in type and organization. In 1707 it became the naval force of the Kingdom of Great Britain after the Union between England and Scotland which merged the English navy with the much smaller Royal Scots Navy, although the two had begun operating together from the time of the Union of the Crowns in 1603.

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Following her first rebuilding, she was mentioned in the Paris archives as part of Elizabeth I's fleet in 1588 in A Statement of the two fleets possessed by the Queen of England, with numbers and names of the ships, in which she was listed as "400 tons, 17 pieces each side, four pieces at the prow and the same at the stern." Her complement was 250 comprising 150 mariners, 30 gunners and 70 soldiers. The ship was under the command of Drake in 1588 - "Drake has also six large ships of the Queen's, namely :—the Revenge, the Hope, the Nonpareil, the Swiftsure, the Aid and the Advice, with 45 of the best merchant ships they could select, at the Isle of Wight." In October 1602 as part of Sir Robert Mansell's small fleet he intercepted and with the help of Dutch warships defeated six Spanish galleys in a battle in the Dover Straits.

Francis Drake Elizabethan era historical figure

Sir Francis Drake was an English sea captain, privateer, slave trader, naval officer and explorer of the Elizabethan era. Drake carried out the second circumnavigation of the world in a single expedition, from 1577 to 1580, and was the first to complete the voyage as captain while leading the expedition throughout the entire circumnavigation. With his incursion into the Pacific Ocean, he claimed what is now California for the English and inaugurated an era of conflict with the Spanish on the western coast of the Americas, an area that had previously been largely unexplored by western shipping.

Robert Mansell English admiral of the Royal Navy and politician

Sir Robert Mansell (1573–1656) was an admiral of the English Royal Navy and a Member of Parliament (MP), mostly for Welsh constituencies. His name was sometimes given as Sir Robert Mansfield and Sir Robert Maunsell.

Battle of the Narrow Seas naval engagement that took place on the 3–4 October 1602 during the Anglo-Spanish War of 1585 and part of the Dutch Revolt

The Battle of the Narrow Seas, also known as the Battle of the Goodwin Sands or Battle of the Dover Straits was a naval engagement that took place on the 3–4 October 1602 during the Anglo-Spanish War of 1585 and part of the Dutch Revolt. An English fleet under Sir Robert Mansell intercepted and attacked six Spanish galleys under the command of Federico Spinola; in the Dover Straits and was fought all the way off from the coast of England and finally off the Spanish Netherlands. The English were soon joined by a Dutch fleet under Jan Adriaanszoon Cant and they completed the destruction.

In 1603-04 she was rebuilt a second time as a great ship (or second rank), and renamed Assurance. Now of 451 tons, she carried 34 primary guns (2 cannon periers, 10 culverins, 12 demi-culverins and 10 sakers) and 4 smaller and more anti-personnel weapons (fowlers). [1]

She was sold out of the navy in late 1645. [1]

Notes

  1. ↑ The "HMS" prefix was not used until the middle of the 18th century, but is sometimes applied retrospectively.

Citations

  1. 1 2 3 Lavery, Ships of the Line, vol. 1, p. 158.

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