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HMS Gosport (1740)

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HMS Gosport (1740)
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Naval Ensign of Great Britain (1707-1800).svgUnited Kingdom
NameHMS Gosport
Ordered13 December 1739
BuilderThomas Snelgrove, Limehouse
Launched20 February 1740 (3 March 1741 N.S.)
CommissionedFebruary 1740 / March 1741
FateBroken up in Chatham 16 June 1768
General characteristics as built
Class & type44-gun fifth rate
Tons burthen69117⁄94 tons (bm)
Length
  • 124 ft 9 in (38.02 m) gundeck
  • 101 ft 9 in (31.01 m) keel for tonnage
Beam14 ft 7 in (4.45 m)
Depth of hold14 ft 7 in (4.45 m)
PropulsionSails
Sail plan Full-rigged ship
Complement250
Armament
  • as built 44 guns
  • 20 x 12-Pounder guns (Lower Gun Deck)
  • 20 x 9-Pounder guns (Upper Gun Deck)
  • 4 x 6-Pounder guns (Quarter Deck)

HMS Gosport was a 44-gun fifth rate of the Royal Navy built by Thomas Snelgrove of Limehouse and launched on 20 February 1740 (3 March 1741 N.S.)

Ship history

Gosport was built at Limehouse by Thomas Snelgrove at a cost of £7,119.0.0d, and completed fitting out at Deptford Dockyard on 16 May 1741 at a cost of £4,126.19.2d. The ship was then commissioned under the command of Captain William Ellis and stationed in the Leeward Islands. [1]

Ellis and the Gosport were involved in escorting convoys through the dangerous Caribbean waters, after one such assignment escorting the Saltertuda Fleet (British merchant ships that sailed to and from La Tortuga (modern-day Tortuga Island, Venezuela) to harvest salt) on 30 May 1743 the Gosport arrived at Sandy Hook (historically a convenient anchorage for ships before proceeding into Upper New York Harbor. [2] It was noted that many of the hands were sick and were 'brought up hither in order for their recover' (taken to New York for medical assistance). [2] Whilst in New York Ellis was removed from command and replaced as commander of the Gosport by a Captain Stourton who then continued on to Boston, arriving on July 14 [3] Ellis's removal from command at this point and death only a short while later on 12 August 1743, [2] as well as the production of a will in the days before his death [4] suggests that he may well have succumbed to illness or disease himself. At this point the ship was paid off (the end of a ship's commission, when the crew was paid their wages) and returned to England for repairs at Sheerness Dockyard. [1] The Gosport was later recommissioned and served in Africa and later returned to the Caribbean. [1]

Under the command of Captain John Eliot the Gosport was tasked with escorting convoys through the Baltic, on one such journey in August 1760 she took a French privateer the 'Marquise de Leede' as a prize. [5]

Eliot later handed command of the Gosport In October 1760 to one John Jervis (later 1st Earl of St Vincent and Admiral of the Fleet) who had been recently promoted to captain, as his first command. [6] George Elphinstone, later Viscount Keith served as a Midshipman on board the Gosport during Jervis's period of command. [7]

References

  1. 1 2 3 Winfield, Rif (2008). British Warships in the Age of Sail 1714-1792. Seaforth Publishing. ISBN   978-1-84415-700-6.
  2. 1 2 3 Nelson, W.; Honeyman, A. van D. (2022) [1895]. Extracts from American Newspapers, Relating to New Jersey. 1704-1775. Legare Street Press. p. 181. ISBN   978-1-01-733429-6.
  3. ↑ Gelles, Edith B. (2004). The Letters of Abigaill Levy Franks, 1733-1748. Yale University Press. p. 132. ISBN   978-0-300-10345-8.
  4. ↑ Collections of the New York Historical Society. The John Watts De Peyster publication fund series. United States: New York Historical Society. 1895. p. 398.
  5. ↑ Rea, Robert R. (April 1979). "The Naval Career of John Eliot, Governor of West Florida". The Florida Historical Quarterly. 57 (4): 451–467.
  6. ↑ Tucker, Jedediah Stephens (1844). Admiral the Right Hon The Earl of St Vincent. GCB &C. Memoirs. Vol. 1. London: Richard Bentley. p. 21.
  7. ↑ Brenton, Edward Pelham (1838). Life and Correspondence of John, Earl of St Vincent. G. C. B., Admiral of the Fleet. Vol. 1. p. 21.
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