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Name | HMS Shoreham |
Ordered | 17 February 1693 |
Builder | Thomas Ellis, Shoreham |
Launched | 6 January 1694 |
Commissioned | January 1694 |
General characteristics as built | |
Class and type | 30-gun fifth rate |
Tons burthen | 3608⁄94 tons (bm) |
Length |
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Beam | 28 ft 1.5 in (8.573 m) |
Depth of hold | 10 ft 8 in (3.25 m) |
Propulsion | Sails |
Sail plan | Full-rigged ship |
Armament |
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General characteristics 1719/21 rebuild | |
Class and type | 20-gun sixth rate |
Tons burthen | 37964⁄94 tons (bm) |
Length |
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Beam | 28 ft 4 in (8.64 m) |
Depth of hold | 9 ft 2 in (2.79 m) |
Propulsion | Sails |
Sail plan | Full-rigged ship |
Armament |
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HMS Shoreham was a 32-gun fifth rate vessel built under contract at Shoreham in 1693/94. During the War of the English Succession she was involved in the unsuccessful operation at Camaret Bay (near Brest). At the end of the war she helped take half a French convoy off Ireland. She then deployed to North America and the West Indies. She was rebuilt as a 20-gun sixth rate to the 1719 Establishment in 1719/21. She served in the Baltic as a bomb vessel then reverted to a sixth rate. She participated in operations in the West Indies during the initial years of the War of Austrian Succession before being sold in 1744.
She was the first vessel to bear the name Shoreham in the English and Royal Navy.[1]