History | |
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England | |
Name | HMS Dartmouth |
Ordered | 21 June 1692 |
Builder | John Shish, Rotherhithe |
Launched | 24 July 1693 |
Captured | 4 February 1695, by France |
France | |
Acquired | 4 February 1695 |
Renamed | Bourbon |
Fate | Sold to Spain in January 1700 |
Spain | |
Acquired | 4 February 1695 |
Renamed | San Juan Bautista |
Captured | 12 October 1702, by HMS Barfleur |
History | |
England | |
Name | HMS Vigo Prize |
Acquired | 12 October 1702 |
Renamed | Vigo Prize |
Fate | Wrecked in the "Great Gale" in Holland, 27 November 1703 |
General characteristics [1] | |
Class and type | 50-gun fourth rate ship of the line |
Tons burthen | 602 84⁄94 bm |
Length | 122 ft (37.2 m) (on gundeck) 100 ft (30.5 m) (keel) |
Beam | 33 ft 8 in (10.3 m) |
Depth of hold | 13 ft 7 in (4.1 m) |
Propulsion | Sails |
Sail plan | Full-rigged ship |
Armament | 50 guns of various weights of shot |
HMS Dartmouth was a 50-gun fourth rate ship of the line of the English Royal Navy, ordered on 21 June 1692 to be built by commercial contract with the master shipwright John Shish in Rotherhithe (one of seven such 50-gun ships ordered during 1692), [2] and launched there on 24 July 1693. [1]
Under the command of Captain Roger Vaughan (who was killed in the action), she was badly damaged and captured in the Western Approaches by two French 40-gun ships on 4 February 1695. [2] The French sold her in January 1700 to Spain, who renamed her as San Juan Bautista (rating her as 48 guns and 549 toneladas in size); she served as the almiranta (2nd flagship) to a convoy in 1701, but she was re-taken by HMS Barfleur at the Battle of Vigo Bay on 12 October 1702. Upon her re-capture in 1702 she was renamed HMS Vigo Prize, as a new ship of the navy had already been commissioned as HMS Dartmouth. Her service as HMS Vigo Prize was short however, [1] as she was wrecked in on the Dutch coast on 25 November 1703. [3]
HMS Salisbury was a 50-gun fourth rate ship of the line of the Royal Navy, one of eight such ships authorised by the Navy Board on 24 December 1695 to be newly built ; the others were the Hampshire, Dartmouth, Winchester, Worcester, Jersey, Carlisle and Tilbury. The contract for the Winchester was signed with shipbuilders Richard and James Herring in 1696, for the ship to be built in their yard at Baileys Hard on the Beaulieu River in Hampshire, England, and she was launched there on 18 April 1698.
HMS Deptford was a 50-gun fourth-rate ship of the line of the Royal Navy, launched at Woolwich Dockyard in 1687. This was the second of three 50-gun ships ordered in 1682/3.
HMS St Albans was a 50-gun fourth rate ship of the line of the English Royal Navy, launched at Deptford Dockyard in 1687. One of only three 50-gun ships to be built during James II's brief reign, she was first commissioned on 22 October 1688 under Captain William Constable, and joined Lord Dartmouth's fleet in that month. The ship fought in the Battle of Bantry Bay on 1 May 1689, at the capture of a French 36-gun ship on 18 July 1690 off Rame Head and in the Battle of Barfleur on 24 May 1692 and in the Battle of Placentia, Newfoundland on 16-21 September 1693.
HMS Triumph was a 90-gun second rate ship of the line of the Royal Navy, launched at Chatham Dockyard on 2 March 1697. She was renamed HMS Prince in 1714.
HMS Falmouth was a 50-gun fourth rate ship of the line built for Royal Navy in the 1690s. She was the first of a batch of seven ships ordered during 1692 to the "123-ft" specification. The ship participated in several battles during the Nine Years' War of 1688–97 and the War of the Spanish Succession (1701–1715), including the action of August 1702. She was captured by the French in 1704.
HMS Norwich was a 50-gun fourth rate ship of the line of the Royal Navy, launched at Deptford on 24 August 1693. The last of seven 50-gun ships ordered during 1692, she was given the name of Norwich following the loss of the previous 50-gun ship of that name on 6 October 1692.
HMS Anglesea was a 50-gun fourth rate ship of the line of the Royal Navy, launched at Plymouth in 1694, although not ordered from the dockyard, but as a commercial contract with Mr Flint, with labour and materials supplied from the dockyard by the Master Shipwright, Elias Waffe. She was ordered on 17 February 1692.
HMS Dartmouth was a 50-gun fourth-rate ship of the line of the Royal Navy, one of eight such ships authorised by the Navy Board on 24 December 1695 to be newly built ; the others were the Hampshire, Winchester, Salisbury, Worcester, Jersey, Carlisle and Tilbury. The contract for the Dartmouth was signed in 1696 with shipbuilder James Parker, for the ship to be built in his site in Southampton, taking the name of the previous Dartmouth of 1693, and she was launched there on 3 March 1698.
HMS Winchester was a 50-gun fourth rate ship of the line of the Royal Navy,, one of eight such ships authorised by the Navy Board to be newly built ; the others were the Hampshire, Dartmouth, Salisbury, Worcester, Jersey, Carlisle and Tilbury. The contract for the Winchester was signed with shipbuilders John and Richard Wells in 1696, for the ship to be built in their yard at Greenland North Dockyard, in Rotherhithe, and she was launched there on 17 March 1698.
HMS Worcester was a 50-gun fourth rate ship of the line of the Royal Navy, one of eight such ships authorised by the Navy Board on 24 December 1695 to be newly built ; the others were the Hampshire, Dartmouth, Salisbury, Winchester, Jersey, Carlisle and Tilbury. The contract for the Worcester was signed with shipbuilder Robert Winter on 26 February 1696, for the ship to be built in his yard at Northam in Southampton, and she was launched there on 31 May 1698.
HMS Chester was a 50-gun fourth rate ship of the line of the Royal Navy, launched 21 March 1691. She was ordered on 20 March 1690 to be built at Woolwich Dockyard by Master Shipwright Joseph Lawrence - on the same day as her stable-mate Centurion, and six days after the first ship of this batch - to a similar design to the prototype of this "123-ft" type - the Sedgemoor of 1687. She was launched on 21 March 1691.
HMS Chatham was a 50-gun fourth rate ship of the line of the Royal Navy, the first of five such ships to be ordered in 1690. The Chatham was built by Master Shipwright Robert Lee at the eponymous dockyard, and launched on 20 October 1691. She was designed to the same lines as Lee's previous 50-gun ship, the Sedgemoor of 1687 - her specification was for a length of 123 ft, breadth of 34ft 3in and depth in hold of 13ft 9in, although she measured very slightly more on completion.
HMS Portland was a 50-gun fourth rate ship of the line of the Royal Navy, launched at Woolwich Dockyard on 28 March 1693. One of two 50-gun ships ordered on 17 February 1692.
HMS Rochester was a 50-gun fourth rate ship of the line of the Royal Navy, and the fifth such ship to be ordered in 1692. She was launched at Chatham Dockyard on 15 March 1693.
HMS Lichfield was a 50-gun fourth-rate ship of the line of the Royal Navy, one of five such ships authorised on 16 November 1693 (three to be built in different Royal Dockyards and two to be built by commercial contract. The Lichfield was built by Master Shipwright William Stigant at Portsmouth Dockyard and launched on 4 February 1695. She was first commissioned in that year under Captain Lord Archibald Hamilton, for service in Home Waters.
HMS Pendennis was a 50-gun fourth rate ship of the line of the English Royal Navy, ordered on 18 November 1694 as one of two such ships to be built by commercial contract by Robert and John Castle at their yard at Deptford. The Pendennis was launched on 15 October 1695.
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Blackwall was a 50-gun fourth-rate ship of the line of the English Royal Navy, one of four ordered in September 1694 to be built by commercial contracts; eight further ships of this type were ordered on 24 December. The Blackwall was built by Sir Henry Johnson's Blackwall Yard and launched on 6 July 1696.
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HMS Warwick was a 50-gun fourth rate ship of the line of the Royal Navy, one of four ordered in September 1694 to be built by commercial contracts; eight further ships of this type were ordered on 24 December. The Warwick was built by Robert and John Castle at their Deptford shipyard and launched on 20 August 1696.