HMS Hope (1678)

For other ships with the same name, see HMS Hope.

History
England
Name	HMS Hope
Ordered	March 1678
Builder	Robert Castle, Deptford yard
Launched	1678
Commissioned	31 March 1679
Captured	16 April 1695
General characteristics as built
Class & type	70-gun third rate ship of the line
Tons burthen	10527⁄94 bm
Length	151 ft 5 in (46.2 m) (gundeck) 121 ft 7 in (37.1 m) (keel(
Beam	40 ft 4 in (12.3 m)
Depth of hold	16 ft 9 in (5.1 m)
Propulsion	Sails
Sail plan	Full-rigged ship
Complement	460 (wartime abroad) 380 (wartime at home) 300 (peacetime)
Armament	70 guns of various weights of shot (reduced to 62 in peacetime)

HMS Hope was a 70-gun third rate ship of the line of the English Royal Navy, one of 20 such Third Rates ordered under the 'Thirty Ships' Progamme approved in 1677. She was built by Robert Castle launched at Castle's private yard (near Deptford Dockyard) in late 1678.

She fought in the Battle of Beachy Head (1690) and the Battle of Barfleur (1692).

Hope was captured by René Duguay-Trouin's squadron in the Channel on 16 April 1695 (coincidentally, her original sister-ship Elizabeth, although rebuilt in 1699-1704, was similarly captured by Duguay-Trouin's squadron in 1704). She was renamed Espérance d'Angleterre and served the French Navy until 1703. On 12 October 1703, as part of the fleet of François-Louis Rousselet (marquis de Châteaurenault) in Vigo Bay, she was stationed at one end of the boom created to protect the French and Spanish warships in the inner harbour of Redondela; she was captured there during the assault by the Anglo-Dutch fleet and was run ashore and burnt.

References

• Lavery, Brian (1983) The Ship of the Line – Volume 1: The development of the battlefleet 1650-1850. Conway Maritime Press. ISBN 0-85177-252-8.
• Winfield, Rif (2009) British Warships in the Age of Sail 1603-1714: Design, Construction, Careers and Fates Seaforth Publishing. ISBN 978-1-84832-040-6.