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HMS Hampton Court was a 70-gun third rate ship of the line of the Royal Navy, launched at Deptford Dockyard in 1678. Her initial commission was to move her to Chatham where she spent in the next ten years in Ordinary. She held an active commission for the War of the English Succession, participating in the Battles of Beachy Head and Barfleur.
HMS Hampton Court was a 70-gun third-rate ship of the line of the Royal Navy, built at Rotherhithe according to the 1706 Establishment and launched on 19 August 1709. [1] Hampton Court was part of Vice-Admiral Edward Vernon's fleet and took part in the expedition to Cartagena de Indias during the War of Jenkins' Ear.
Two ships of the Royal Navy have borne the name HMS Hampton Court: HMS Hampton Court (1678) was a 70-gun third-rate ship of the line launched in 1678 captured by France in 1707 and sold to Spain in 1712. HMS Hampton Court (1709) was a 70-gun third-rate ship of the line launched in 1709 rebuilt in 1744 as a 64-gun ship. She was broken up in 1774.
This squadron consisted of 7 sail of the line and 6 privateers. [4] The action began when 3 French ships, Griffon, Blackoal and La Dauphine, grappled HMS Hampton Court and killed Captain Clements. Commodore Wyld took five of his largest merchant ships into his line and boldly met the attack of the French ships. [3]
This is a list of ships of the line of the Royal Navy of England, and later (from 1707) of Great Britain, and the United Kingdom.The list starts from 1660, the year in which the Royal Navy came into being after the restoration of the monarchy under Charles II, up until the emergence of the battleship around 1880, as defined by the Admiralty.
Subsequently, two more ships were newbuilt (the Grafton and Hampton Court, both launched in 1709) and three rebuilt from existing third-rates (the Edgar and Yarmouth in 1709, and Orford in 1713) by contract; and another five were rebuilt in the Dockyards – the Royal Oak, Expedition, Suffolk, Monmouth and Revenge.
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HMS Hampton Court on the right with red swallowtail pennant, at the Battle of Porto Bello. On 9 December 1737 Murray became second lieutenant of the ship of the line HMS Hampton Court which sailed for the West Indies in 1738 as the flagship of Commodore Charles Brown.