HMS Flamborough (1707)
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 Great Britain
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| Name: | HMS Flamborough |
| Ordered: | 30 July 1706 |
| Builder: | Woolwich Dockyard |
| Laid down: | 1706 |
| Launched: | 29 January 1707 |
| Decommissioned: | 1748 |
| Fate: | Sold out of service, 10 January 1749 |
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| General characteristics as originally built | |
| Class and type: | 24-gun Sixth rate |
| Tons burthen: | 261 49⁄94 bm |
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| Beam: | 25 ft 0 in (7.62 m) |
| Depth of hold: | 10 ft 8 in (3.25 m) |
| Sail plan: | Full-rigged ship |
| Complement: | 115 (85 in peacetime) |
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| Notes: | Rebuilt, 1727 |
| General characteristics after 1727 rebuild | |
| Class and type: | 20-gun Sixth rate |
| Tons burthen: | 377 41⁄94 bm |
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| Beam: | 28 ft 5 in (8.66 m) |
| Depth of hold: | 9 ft 3 in (2.82 m) |
| Propulsion: | Sails |
| Sail plan: | Full rigged ship |
| Complement: | 140 |
| Armament: | 20 x 6-pounder guns |
| Notes: | Sold 10 January 1749 |
HMS Flamborough was a Royal Navy post ship, launched in 1707 with 24 guns. She was the first Royal Navy vessel to be stationed in South Carolina, holding that position from 1719 to 1721. She was rebuilt as a considerably larger 20-gun vessel in 1727, and was employed during the following decade off Ireland and later on the Jamaica station. After a period in New York she returned to the Carolinas in 1739, patrolling the coast and playing a minor role in the War of Jenkins' Ear. She returned to England in 1745. After undergoing a major repair she was recommissioned under Captain Jervis Porter in April 1746, and served in the North Sea for the following two years. She was sold out of naval service in 1749.
Flamborough was laid down in Woolwich Dockyard as a 24-gun post ship in 1706 and launched on 29 January 1707. Her earliest recorded duty was protecting the Yarmouth fisheries in 1707 under Commander William Clarke, then with Byng's Channel fleet in 1708. Commanded by Captain Charles Vanburgh, she captured two French privateers in the North Sea during 1710, the Trompeuse on 22 May and the St François on 5 June. In 1711, now under Commander Thomas Howard, she was assigned to escort merchant convoys and intercept French privateers in English waters between Newcastle and Leith. In late 1711 she captured a French privateer in a brief action off Bass Rock in the Firth of Forth; the privateer's Scottish captain was subsequently convicted of high treason and executed in London.
Flamborough served in the North Sea from 1718 to 1719, including participation in the May 1719 capture of Eilean Donan Castle during the Jacobite rising of 1719. From October 1719 to July 1721, the vessel was stationed in South Carolina under Captain John Hildesley, the first Royal Navy ship assigned to these waters. In 1727 she was rebuilt at Portsmouth as a 20-gun vessel. Ten years later she was again posted to the Americas, sailing for New York in March 1738 under Captain Vincent Pearce.
By the late 1730s hostilities appeared imminent between Britain and Spain and the British Admiralty had concerns regarding the security of settlements along the Carolina and Georgia coasts. On 11 June 1739 Admiralty orders were issued for a six-vessel squadron, including Flamborough, to "protect the said settlements ... by taking, burning or otherwise destroying the ships, vessels or boats which the Spaniards may employ thereon."Flamborough thereupon left her New York station for the Carolinas, arriving ahead of the declaration of war with Spain in October.
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