Construction and specifications
She was ordered on 10 March 1693 to be built at Woolwich Dockyard under the guidance of Master Shipwright Joseph Lawrence. She was launched on 15 February 1694. Her dimensions were a gundeck of with a keel of for tonnage calculation with a breadth of and a depth of hold of . Her builder's measure tonnage was calculated as 374 tons ( burthen).Winfred 2009, Ch 5, The Fifth Rates, Vessels acquired from 16 December 1688, Fifth Rates of 32 and 36 guns, 1693 Programme, Scarborough The gun armament initially was four demi-culverinsA demi-culverin was a gun of 3,400 pounds with a four-inch bore firing a 9.5-pound shot with an eight-pound powder charge on the lower deck (LD) with two pair of guns per side. The upper deck (UD) battery would consist of between twenty and twenty-two sakersA sacar or saker was a gun of 1,400 pounds with a 3.5-inch bore firing a 5.5-pound shot with a 5.5-pound powder charge. guns with ten or eleven guns per side. The gun battery would be completed by four to six minionsA minion was a gun of 1,000 pounds with a 3.5-inch bore firing a 4-pound shot with a 4-pound powder charge. guns on the quarterdeck (QD) with two to three guns per side.Commissioned service
Service 1694
She was commissioned under the command of Captain Thomas Killingworth for service in the Irish Channel. She was taken by the French privateers, the 36-gun ''Le Comte de Revel'' and the 22-gun ''L'Etoille'' off Tory Island, Northern Ireland on 18 July 1694. 32 of the crew were killed including Captain Killingworth and 10 wounded. She was incorporated into the privateer squadron and renamed ''Le Duc de Chaulnes''. She was recaptured on 15 September 1697 by HMS ''Plymouth'' and HMS ''Rye'' and renamed HMS ''Milford''. She was recommissioned in 1700 under Captain William Moses for service on the coast of Africa. In 1701 she was attending on the King of Holland. In 1702 she was under Captain John Anderson. On 12 March 1703 she was assigned Captain Edward Windsor for service in the West Indies. On her return she was ordered to be rebuilt at Deptford in 1705.Rebuild at Deptford Dockyard 1705
She was ordered rebuilt at Deptford Dockyard under the guidance of Master Shipwright Joseph Allin. She was launched/completed in December 1705. Her dimensions were a gundeck of with a keel of for tonnage calculation with a breadth of and a depth of hold of . Her builder's measure tonnage was calculated as 420 tons ( burthen).Winfred 2009, Ch 5, The Fifth Rates, Vessels acquired from 16 December 1688, Milford Group, Milford Her armament was 36 guns wartime and 30 guns peacetime, consisting of eight/six 12-pounder guns on the lower deck (LD), twenty-two/twenty 6-pounder guns on the upper deck (UD), and six/four 6-pounder guns on the quarterdeck (QD).Service 1705-1720
She was commissioned in December 1705 under the command of Captain Philip Stanhope. She was off Ostend in June 1706 with Vice-Admiral Sir Stafford Fairborne to co-operate with the army in the siege of the town. The ships bombarded the town during the landing of troops and Ostend capitulated on 25 June. In conjunction with HMS ''Fowey'' drove ashore and burnt the 60-gun ''Content'' then took the French 42-gun ''Le Mercure'' on 8 January 1707. In March she was escorting HMS ''Resolution'' conveying the Earl of Peterborough to Italy. The small convoy was spotted by a group of French ships. The Earl transferred to ''Enterprise'' and escaped to Leghorn along with ''Milford''. ''Resolution'' went ashore and was burnt to avoid capture.Clowes (1898), Chapter XXIV, pages 515-516 She was in action at Minorca where Captain Stanhope was killed, on 17 September 1708. In September 1708 she came under the command of Captain John Goodhall (until 1715) serving with Whittaker's Squadron in the winter of 1708/09 and remaining in the Mediterranean during 1709. She sailed with a Newfoundland convoy then returned to the Mediterranean in 1711/12. She returned to Home Waters in 1715 and underwent a small repair at Woolwich costing 1,099.11.9dA total cost accounting for inflation of approximately £ in today's money between September 1715 and February 1716. She was commissioned in 1718 under Captain Peter Chamberlain for service at Jamaica.Loss
She was wrecked on Cape Corrientes, Cuba, on 18 June 1720 with the loss of most of her crew, including Captain Chamberlain.Notes
Citations
References
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