English ship Marigold (1650)

For other ships with the same name, see HMS Marigold.

History
Commonwealth of England
Name	Marigold
Acquired	1650
Commissioned	1652
Fate	Sold 1658
General characteristics
Class and type	22-gun fourth rate
Sail plan	Full-rigged ship
Complement	100 in 1652
Armament	30/22 guns

Marigold was a 30-gun fourth rate vessel of the Kingdom of England, She was purchased from Portugal by Royalist agents then captured and commissioned into the Parliamentary Naval Force as Marigold. She conducted fishery protection duties, sailed to the West Indies and finally was with the Fleet off Cadiz. She was sold in 1658. ^[1]

Marigold was the first named vessel in the English or Royal Navy. ^[2]

Specifications

She was purchased by the Royalists from Portugal as Crowned Lion. Her name does not appear on the English or Royal Navy named vessel list. She was captured in 1650 and may have been on her delivery voyage. She was purchased and ordered to be fitted for service in the Parliamentary Navy by Admiralty Order 10 January 1651. She was renamed Marigold on 15 November 1651. Her dimensions are unknown, Her crew was 100 personnel, By 1653 she carried 30 guns in wartime and reduced to 22 guns in peacetime. ^[3]

Commissioned service

Service in the Commonwealth Navy

She was commissioned into the Commonwealth Navy in 1652 under the command of Captain Humphrey Felstead for fishery protection off Scotland and Ireland. She escorted a convoy of fishing vessels to Iceland in May 1654. ^[4] In 1655 she sailed with Penn's Fleet to the West Indies in 1655. From 1656 through 1657 she was under the command of Captain George Kendall serving with Robert Blake's Fleet off Cadiz, Spain. ^[5]

Disposition

Marigold was sold in 1658. ^[6]

Citations

1. Winfield
2. Colledge
3. Winfield
4. Evan T. Jones, 'The journal of the voyage of the Marigold to Iceland, 1654' in Susan Rose (ed.), The Navy Miscellany, Vol. VII (2008)
5. Winfield
6. Winfield

References

• British Warships in the Age of Sail (1603 – 1714), by Rif Winfield, published by Seaforth Publishing, England © Rif Winfield 2009, EPUB ISBN   978-1-78346-924-6, Chapter 4 Fourth Rates - 'Small Ships', Vessels acquired from 25 March 1603, Ex-Royalist Prizes (1649-52), Marigold
• Colledge, Ships of the Royal Navy, by J.J. Colledge, revised and updated by Lt-Cdr Ben Warlow and Steve Bush, published by Seaforth Publishing, Barnsley, Great Britain, © the estate of J.J. Colledge, Ben Warlow and Steve Bush 2020, EPUB ISBN   978-1-5267-9328-7, Section M (Marigold)
• Lavery, The Arming and Fitting of English Ships of War 1800 – 1815, by Brian Lavery, published by US Naval Institute Press (C) 1989, ISBN   978-0-87021-009-9, Part V Guns, Type of Guns