HMS ''Triumph'' was a 90-gun
second rate
In the rating system of the Royal Navy used to categorise sailing warships, a second-rate was a ship of the line which by the start of the 18th century mounted 90 to 98 guns on three gun decks; earlier 17th-century second rates had fewer guns ...
ship of the line
A ship of the line was a type of naval warship constructed during the Age of Sail from the 17th century to the mid-19th century. The ship of the line was designed for the naval tactics in the Age of Sail, naval tactic known as the line of battl ...
of the
Royal Navy
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, launched at
Chatham Dockyard
Chatham Dockyard was a Royal Navy Dockyard located on the River Medway in Kent. Established in Chatham, Kent, Chatham in the mid-16th century, the dockyard subsequently expanded into neighbouring Gillingham, Kent, Gillingham; at its most extens ...
on 2 March 1697.
She was renamed HMS ''Prince'' in 1714.
''Triumph'' was
commissioned in February 1702 as the
flagship
A flagship is a vessel used by the commanding officer of a group of navy, naval ships, characteristically a flag officer entitled by custom to fly a distinguishing flag. Used more loosely, it is the lead ship in a fleet of vessels, typically ...
of Admiral Sir
George Rooke
Admiral of the Fleet (Royal Navy), Admiral of the Fleet Sir George Rooke (1650 – 24 January 1709) was an Royal Navy officer and politician. As a junior officer he saw action at the Battle of Solebay and again at the Battle of Schooneveld duri ...
. Rooke's
flag captain
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s were
William Bokenham and John Fletcher, though Bokenham was transferred to another vessel five months later. In November 1702 the ship passed to Rear-Admiral Sir
John Graydon
Vice-Admiral John Graydon ( – 12 March 1726) was an English officer of the Royal Navy. He was active during the Nine Years War and the War of the Spanish Succession.
Life
In June 1686 Graydon was appointed lieutenant of ; in May 1688 first li ...
, with Captain Richard Hughes as flag-captain. After a voyage with Rooke's squadron to the Spanish port of
Cadiz, the ship was
paid off
Ship commissioning is the act or ceremony of placing a ship in active service and may be regarded as a particular application of the general concepts and practices of project commissioning. The term is most commonly applied to placing a warship i ...
in December and her crew dispersed to other vessels.
[Winfield 2009, pp.3536]
''Triumph'' was recommissioned in March 1703 under Captain James Stewart, as the flagship of Admiral Cloudisley Shovell. She was assigned to cruise off the Spanish Mediterranean coastline, and was again paid off in March 1704.
[
She was renamed ''Prince'' in 1714. On 13 December 1742 ''Prince'' was ordered to be taken to pieces and rebuilt at Chatham, according to the 1741 proposals of the ]1719 Establishment
The 1719 Establishment was a set of mandatory requirements governing the construction of all Royal Navy warships capable of carrying more than 20 naval long guns. It was designed to bring economies of scale through uniform vessel design, and e ...
. She was relaunched on 8 August 1750.[Ships of the Old Navy, ''Triumph''.]
Notes
References
*Lavery, Brian (1983) ''The Ship of the Line – Volume 1: The development of the battlefleet 1650–1850''. Conway Maritime Press. .
*Michael Phillips
''Triumph'' (90) (1698)
Michael Phillips' Ships of the Old Navy. Retrieved 1 February 2008.
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Ships of the line of the Royal Navy
1690s ships
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