A HISTORY OF SUSSEX 



GOSPORT (5th rate), 376 tons, 32 guns; built at Shoreham 1696. Services: W.I. 1697 

 (c. David Greenhill) ; N.A. 1701-4 (c. Hen. Croft and Thos. Smith) ; Ch. 1705 (c. John Barter); 

 C. and C. 1 706 (c. Edw. St. Lo). Taken, with twelve out of fifteen merchantmen under convoy, 

 by a squadron under Duguay-Trouin, 28 Aug. 1706. Capt. St. Lo acquitted and commended. 



LYNN (^th rate), 380 tons, 32 guns ; built at Shoreham 1696. Services : C. and C. 1696-8 

 (c. Hor. Townshend) ; W.I. 1699-1700 ; C. and C. 1701-3 (c. Edm. Lechmere and J. Watkins); 

 W.I. 1704-5 (c. Geo. Martin); C. and C. 1706 (c. Lord Forbes); W.I. 1707-9 (c. Arch. 

 Hamilton and Hen. Blinstone); Med. 1710-12 ; in May, 1712, with Ludlow Castle, drove ashore 

 and destroyed a Spanish 3&-gun ship and five merchantmen in Estapona Roads. Sold by A.O. 

 II June, 1713. 



EAGLE (Advice Boat), 152 tons, 10 guns ; built at Arundel 1696. Wrecked on Sussex coast 

 27 Nov. 1703. 



SWIFT (Advice Boat), 152 tons, 10 guns; built at Arundel 1697. Wrecked on coast of 

 North Carolina, 24 Jan. 1697-8. 



SEAFORD (6th rate), 432 tons, 24 guns; built at Shoreham 1741. Services: C. and C. 

 1741-2 (c. Thos. Pye) ; Med. 1743-8 (c. J. Wilson). Broken up 1754. 



DISPATCH (Sloop), 269 tons, 14 guns; built at Shoreham 1745. Services: C. and C. 

 1746-62 (c. Jos. Veal, Jas. Holbourne, David Edwards, J. Hodges, and A. Bertie); in action 

 7 Oct. 1756 with a French sloop of greater force c. Holbourne was killed ; in 1762 took Due de 

 Broglie, 14. Sold by A.O. I Mar. 1763. 



HORNET (Sloop), 272 tons, 14 guns ; built at Chichester 1745. Services : C. and C. 1745-6. 

 Taken 26 Jan. 1746-7 by a French privateer; retaken in October. C. and C. 17489 (c. Jas. 

 Holwell) ; N.A. 1750-3 ; N.A. 1755-6 (c. Sampson Salt) ; W.I. 1757-9 (c. Hon. Chas. Napier); 

 C. and C. 1759-63 (c. Geo. Johnstone) ; N.A. 1764-7 (c. J. Morgan). Sold by A.O. 21 Feb. 

 1770. 



HOUND (Sloop), 267 tons, 14 guns; built at Shoreham 1745. Services: C. and C. 1746-9 

 (c. Thos. Dove) ; N.A. 1750-2 ; C. and C. 1755-63 (c. Jas. Drake and Robt. Carre) ; Guinea 

 coast, 1765-6 (c. Wm. Gamier and John Macartney); Falkland Islands, 1771-3 (c. J. Burr). 

 Sold by A.O. of 20 Sept. 1773. 



ARUNDEL (6th rate), 509 tons, 24 guns; built at Chichester 1746. Services: C. and C. 

 1747 (c. John Reynolds); N.A. 1748-51; Nfd. 1754(0. J.Lloyd); N.A. 1755 (c. Thos. 

 Hankerson) ; C. and C. 1756 ; W.I. 1758-61 (c. Rich. Matthews and Jas. Innes) ; N.A. 1762-3 

 (c. Wm. Manwaring). Sold 1765. 



PENZANCE (5th rate), 823 tons, 44 guns ; built at Chichester 1747. Services : N.A. 148 

 (c. J. H. Porter) ; Nfd. 1752-5 (c. Chas. Saunders (ist Lieut. Josh. Rowley), Hugh Bonfoy, and 

 Rich. Dorrill); C. and C. 1757-9 (c. Thos. Ward and Wm. Gough) ; N.A. 1760-2 (c. Ph. 

 Boteler). Sold 1766. 



HIND (6th rate), 510 tons, 24 guns; built at Chichester 1749. Services: W.I. 1753-6 

 (c. Tim. Nucella and Chas. Webber) ; C. and C. 1757 (c. Rich. Hughes) ; N.A. 1758-9 (c. Robt. 

 Bond), siege of Louisberg and capture of Quebec ; C. and C. 1760 ; Med. 1761 (c. Phillips Cosby); 

 C. and C. 1762-73 (c. Wm. McCleverty, Geo. Watson, and Wm. Long); W.I. 1774-8 (c. Wm. 

 Gamier, Hen. Brine, and Chas. Hope); N.A. 177981 (c. Wm. Young). Made storeship in 1782. 



STORK (Sloop), 233 tons, 14 guns ; built at Shoreham 1756. Services : W.I. 1757-8 (c. Pet. 

 Carteret and Wm. Tucker). Taken 1 6 Aug. 1758 by a French 74-gun ship. 



FAVOURITE (Sloop), 313 tons, 16 guns; built at Shoreham 1757. Services: Med. 175762 

 (c. Tim. Edwards and Philemon Pownal) ; took Grouzard, 26, in 1758, Vahur, 24, in 1759, and 

 St. Joseph, 12, in 1761 ; present at Boscawen's action with De la Clue, 18 Aug. 1759 ; C. and C. 

 1764-5 (c. Wm. Hamilton); Nfd. 1766-7; Port Egmont and Falkland Islands, 1768-70 

 (c. Wm. Maltby) ; W.I. 1771-5 (c. Robt. Biggs) ; W.I. 1777-9 (c. Wm. Fooks). Sold 1784. 



CONFLAGRATION (fireship), 426 tons, 10 guns; built at Shoreham 1783. Services : burnt at 

 Toulon, 18 Dec. 1793 (c. T. Loring). 



VULCAN (fireship), 425 tons, 10 guns; built at Shoreham 1783. Services: burnt at Toulon, 

 1 8 Dec. 1793 (c. C. Hare). 



CHICHESTER (5th rate), 902 tons, 44 guns; built at Itchenor 1785. Services: C. and C. 

 1788 (c. H. C. Bridges): R. S. Plymouth, 1790; Troopship, 1791 ; R. S. Plymouth, 1793; 

 W. I. 1794 (c. R. D. Fancourt), with Intrepid, 64, took La Sirlne in August ; C. and C. 1795-7 ; 

 storeship and transport, 1799-1808, lent to West India Dock Co. as boys' training ship, 1809. 

 Broken up by A. O. June, 1815. 



SCORPION (sloop), 340 tons, 16 guns; built at Shoreham 1785. Services, W. I. 1788-90 

 (c. P. Bayley and Sir Chas. Hamilton) ; Guinea Coast, 1791-2 (c. Ben Hallowell) ; W.I. 1793-6 

 (c. Thos. Western and Stair Douglas); took Victoire, 18, on 19 April, L' Egalite, 16, on 8 May, 

 Sampareil, 1 6, on 22 July, Rcpublicain, 1 6, on 3 August, and L'HironMIe, 1 6, on 7 August, 1795 ; 



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