HMS Deal Castle (1697)

For other ships of the same name, see HMS Deal Castle.

HMS Deal Castle (1697)
Career (England)
Name:	HMS Deal Castle
Ordered:	24 December 1696
Builder:	Royal Dockyard, Deptford
Launched:	6 November 1697
Commissioned:	28 October 1697
Captured:	3 July 1706
Fate:	By French privateer on 3 July 1706
General characteristics
Type:	20-gun Sixth Rate
Tons burthen:	240 3⁄9 bm
Length:	91 ft 11 in (28.0 m) gundeck 77 ft 8 in (23.7 m) keel for tonnage
Beam:	24 ft 1.25 in (7.3 m) for tonnage
Depth of hold:	10 ft 9.5 in (3.3 m)
Armament:	initially as ordered 20 x sakers on wooden trucks (UD) 4 x 3-pdr on wooden trucks (QD) 1703 Establidhment 20 x 6-pdrs on wooden trucks (UD) 4 x 4-pdr on wooden trucks (QD)

HMS Deal Castle was a member of the standardize 20-gun sixth rates built at the end of the 17th Century. After she was commissioned she was in Newfoundland, The West Indies, Irish Sea Jamaica and back to Home Waters. She was captured by the French in 1706.

Deal Castle was the first ship in the Royal Navy.

Construction

She was ordered in the Fourth Batch of four ships from Deptford Dockyard to be built under the guidance of their Master Shipwright, Fisher Harding. She was launched on 6 November 1697.

Commissioned Service

She was commissioned on 28 October 1697 under the command of Captain Henry Fowles, RN. In 1698 Captain Sir Thomas Hardy took command. Captain Fowles re-assumed command in 1699 and sailed for Newfoundland. In 1700, Captain Edmund Doyley, RN assumed command and sailed to North America and the West Indies in 1700 and 1701. In 1702 she was surveying the Irish Coast. Following Captain Doyley's death on 10 May 1703, Commander Henry Scott, RN assumed command for service in the North Sea. In 1704 Commander John Trehearne, RN took command and proceeded to Jamaica, where he died in 1705. In 1706 Commander Chaloner Ogle, RN took command.

Loss

She was taken by a French 26-gun privateer off Ostend on 3 July 1706.

References

• Winfield, British Warships in the Age of Sail (1603 – 1714), by Rif Winfield, published by Seaforth Publishing, England © 2009, EPUB ISBN 9781783469246, Chapter 6, The Sixth Rates, Vessels acquired from 18 December 1688, Sixth Rates of 20 guns and up to 26 guns, Maidstone Group, Deal Castle
• 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, © 2020, e ISBN 978-1-5267-9328-7 (EPUB), Section D (Deal Castle)

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