English ship Islip (1654)

History
England [1]
Name	Isklip
Namesake	Islip, Northamptonshire
Operator	Navy of the Commonwealth of England   Royal Navy (from 1660)
Ordered	1 October 1653
Builder	Francis Bayley, Bristol
Launched	25 March 1654
Commissioned	1654
Fate	Wrecked 24 July 1655
General characteristics as built 1654
Type	22-gun fifth rate
Sail plan	ship-rigged
Complement	100 in 1654
Armament	As built 1654 18 x demi-culverins (UD) 4 x sakers (QD)

Islip was a fifth-rate warship of the Commonwealth of England's naval forces, one of six such ships built under the 1653 Programme (the others were Colchester, Fagons, Selby, Basing, and Grantham). She was built by contract with shipwright Francis Bayley at his yard at Bristol, and was launched on 25 March 1654 as a 22-gun fifth rate. She was named Islip to commemorate the victory at that Northamptonshire village over Royalist forces by Parliamentary forces under Oliver Cromwell in 1645 during the Civil War.

There is no record of her tonnage or dimensions. She was armed with 22 guns, comprising 18 demi-culverins on the single gundeck and 4 sakers on the quarterdeck. She was commissioned shortly after completion under Captain Edward Tarleton, but was wrecked the next year off Inverlochy (Lough Linnhe) on 24 July 1655. ^[2]

Citations

1. Rif Winfield, British Warships in the Age of Sail 1603-1714, p.154.
2. David Hepper, British Warship Losses in the Age of Sail 1649-1860, Seaforth Publishing, England, 2023, ISBN   978-1-3990-3102-8.

References

• Rif Winfield (2009), British Warships in the Age of Sail 1603 – 1714, by Rif Winfield, published by Seaforth Publishing, England © 2009, ISBN   978-1-84832-040-6, EPUB ISBN   978-1-78346-924-6, Chapter 5, The Fifth Rates
• Jim Colledge, Ships of the Royal Navy, by James J. Colledge, revised and updated by Lt Cdr Ben Warlow and Steve Bush, published by Seaforth Publishing, Barnsley, Great Britain, © 2020, EPUB ISBN   978-1-5267-9328-7.