MARITIME HISTORY 



cashiered, but it was for ill-conduct in going out of his course and not for want of couraze. The 

 crews were as eager for plunder as their officers and as unscrupulous in obtaining it. On 19 April 

 1665, the master and many of the men of the Basing were court-martialled for brutality to the crew 

 of a Frenchman they had searched. The master was cashiered and the men were sentenced to be 

 flogged round the fleet. 



There is little to be said about the later ships ; they were mostly small vessels engaged in 

 police work in the Narrow Seas, which they did fairly successfully. The Cruiser, built from the 

 plans of Sir William Rule, the then Surveyor of the Navy and not usually a very fortunate designer, 

 proved to be very fast, as is shown by the long list of prizes under her name ; a list not complete, for 

 she took other vessels of too small force to be worth recapitulating. Several other sloops were built 

 on her model, and in 1823, five years after she had been sold out of the Navy, the Admiralty directed, 

 in one order, six more to be constructed on her lines. The Transit was from the plans of 

 Mr. R. H. Gower, an officer of the East India Company living at Ipswich, but was spoiled, he 

 maintained, by alterations made by the Navy Board while she was being built. From 1804 onwards 

 all the men-of-war were built by the Bayleys. 



The Ganges, a wooden 84-gun ship built at Bombay in 1821 and used as a training ship for 

 boys at Devonport between 1865 and 1898, was transferred to Harwich harbour in 1899 ; two of 

 the earlier ironclads, the Minotaur and Agincourt, became tenders to her in 1906. From I January, 

 1904, Felixstowe Dock became the local head quarters of a torpedo boat and destroyer flotilla. 



APPENDIX OF SHIPS 



Chronological List of Men-of-War built in Suffolk, with Details of Commissions 

 to the Close of the Napoleonic War ' 



Abbreviations used :— C. and C. = Convoy and cruising duties; Ch. = Channel Fleet; W.I. = West 

 Indies; E.I. = East Indies; N.A. = North America; Nfd. = Newfoundland ; Med. = Mediterranean ; 

 N.S. = North Sea; G.S. = Guard ship ; H.S. = Hospital ship; A. O. = Admiralty Order ; P.O. = Paid out of 

 Commission. 



Advice (4th rate), 545 tons, 42 guns ; built at Woodbridge 1650. Services : C. and C. 1654— 

 60 (c. Fr. Allen) ; C. and C. 1663 (c. Wm. Poole) ; battles of 3 June, 1665 (c. Poole) and 25 

 July, 1666 (c. Chas. O'Brien) ; C. and C. 1667 and P.O. ; Med. 1670 (c. Ben. Young), in July, 

 in charge of convoy with Guernsey, engaged seven Algerines off Cape de Gatte, 24 k. and w. 

 including capt. Young killed ; Med. 1671-2 (c. Hen. Barnardiston) ; Fleet battles 1672 (c. Domi- 

 nick Nugent)~3 (c. John Dawson) ; Ch. 1674 ; G.S. Portsmouth 1678-9 (c. Wm. Holden) ; Ch. 



1688 (c. Hen. Williams)-9 (c. John Grenville, 2nd It. Rich. Kirby), battle of Bantry Bay, I May, 



1689 ; C. and C. 1 690-2 (c. Ed. Boys and Chas. Hawkins) ; W.I. 1693-4 (c. YVm. Harman), 

 operations on coast of Espanola, Harman killed ; C. and C. 1695 (c. Ed. Acton) ; E.I. 1696-8 ; 

 C. and C. 1699 (c. Jas. Greenway) ; N.A. 1700-2 (c. Wm. Caldwell); C. and C. 1703 

 (c. Salmon Morris); N.A. 1704-6 (c. J. Lowen), in June, 1704 captured a privateer of 18 guns 

 taken into Navy as Advice Prize; Nfd. 1707-9 (c. Peter Chamberlain); C. and C. 1710-11 

 (c. Lord Duffus). Taken off Yarmouth 27 June, 171 1, by six French privateers, 60 k. and w. 



Reserve (4th rate), 533 tons, 42 guns; built at Woodbridge 1650. Services: Nfd. 1654 

 (c. Robt. Plumleigh); C. and C. 1655 ; Nfd. 1656; C. and C. 1657-9; Nfd. 1660 ; Med. 

 1663-4; Fleet battles 1665-6 (c. John Tyrwhitt) ; C. and C. 1667-8 (c. Christ. Gunman); 

 C. and C. 1670-2 (c. Thos. Elliott and Jasper Grant) ; repairing during 1673 ; Med. 1674-5 

 (c. Edw. Russell) ; Nfd. 1676 ; Med. 1677 ; Ch. 1678 (c. David Lloyd) ; Nfd. 1679 (c. Lawrence 

 Wright) ; C. and C. 1681-2 (c. Hen. Priestman) ; Ch. 1684-5 (c- Geo. Aylmer) ; G.S. Ports- 

 mouth 1686-7 (c. Dom. Nugent) ; Ch. 1688 ; Med. 1691 (c. Thos. Crawley) ; C. and C. 1692-4 

 (c. Jas. Launce) ; W.I. 1696-7 (c. John Moses) ; Nfd. 1702 (c. Rich. Haddock); C. and C. 1703. 

 Foundered in Yarmouth Roads in the Great Storm of 27 Nov., 1703 ; c. John Anderson and 174 

 men drowned. See also ante, p. 242. 



Maidstone (4th rate), renamed Mary Rose at Restoration ; 556 tons, 40 guns; built at 

 Woodbridge 1654. Services: Med. 1654-7 ( c - Thos. Adams), action of Tunis 4 April, 1655, 

 Santa Cruz 20 April, 1657 ; C. and C. 1657-60 (c. Thos. Penrose) ; E.I. 1662-4 ( c - Jos. Cubitt) ; 

 Ch. 1665-6, battle of 3 June, 1665 (c. Wm. Reeves), battles of June and July, 1666 (c. Thos. 



'Names of captains are within brackets. It should be remarked that only the chief movements of vessels 

 are given. A ship may have been for some years on a foreign station, and during her commission have come 

 home several times for repairs ; such intervals are not noticed in the list of services, nor, if occupied in more 

 than one employment in a year is any other than the principal one usually named. 



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