Four ships of the British

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have been named HMS ''Good Hope''. *The first , of 35 guns, was captured by the

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in May 1665. *The second , of 6 guns, was a

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captured from the

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in 1665 and sold in 1667. * The third was a

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launched in 1901 and sunk in 1914 at the

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. * The fourth HMS ''Good Hope'' was a "stone ship", or land-based naval officer training base, located at Sea View, a few kilometers outside of Port Elizabeth, South Africa. It was situated in a newly built luxury hotel (The Seaview Hotel) and had a golf course, a tidal swimming pool and a tennis court. It was started in 1942 by the Royal Navy and was the only facility outside of the UK where men from all over the British Commonwealth could be trained for a commission in the

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. It was closed down in 1944. There was also a South African , which was laid down as HMS ''Loch Boisdale'' in 1943 but renamed and transferred to the

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before completion in 1944.

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