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HMS Newport (1694)
Career (England) English Red Ensign 1620
Name: HMS Newport
Ordered: 21 July 1693
Builder: Royal Dockyard, Portsmouth
Launched: 7 April 1694
Commissioned: 22 January 1694
Captured: 5 July 1696
Fate: Captured by the French, renamed Le Nieuport, condemned in 1720
General characteristics
Type: 20-gun Sixth Rate
Tons burthen: 253 1494 bm
Length:
  • 94 ft 3 in (28.7 m) gundeck
  • 78 ft 9 in (24.0 m) keel for tonnage
Beam:
  • 24 ft 7 in (7.5 m) for tonnage
  • Depth of hold: 10 ft 11 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 Newport was a member of the standardize 20-gun sixth rates built at the end of the 17th Century. She spent her short career sailing between New England and Home Waters. She was captured by French Warships in 1696.[1]

    Newport was the first named vessel in the Royal Navy.[2]

    Construction[]

    She was ordered in the First Batch of four ships from Portsmouth Dockyard to be built under the guidance of their Master Shipwright, William Stigant. She was launched on 7 April 1694.[3]

    Commissioned Service[]

    Commissioned on 22 January 1694 under the command of Captain Wentworth Paxton, RN, She sailed round trip New England returning to Home waters in 1694, 1695 and 1696. She did not return in 1696.[4]

    Disposition[]

    HMS Newport was captured by French Warships in the Bay of Fundy on5 July 1696. She was incorporated into the French Navy as LeNieuport and remained in service until condemned in 1720.[5]

    Citations[]

    1. Winfield
    2. Colledge
    3. Winfield
    4. Winfield
    5. Winfield

    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, Newport
    • 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 N (Newport)

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