HMS Dreadnought (1742) (4th ship to bear the name)
Historical: 4th Rate, 60-gun BPP: 2nd Rate, 80-gun
This the fifth ship to carry the name HMS Dreadnought was a fourth rate, 60-gun ship.
Built by Wells of Deptford, launched 23-Jun-1742, 14ft long, 42ft wide and of 1,093 tons builders measurement. Sold 17-Aug-1784
1755 Capt. Maurice Suckling, appointed 2nd December and ordered to the West Indies after the outbreak of war. On the 25 October 1757 Capt. Forrest in the AUGUSTA, with the DREADNOUGHT and the EDINBURGH under his orders, returned from a cruise off Cape Francois on the 21st, and fell in with seven French ships of war. The enemy were the INTREPIDE and SCEPTRE of 74 guns, the OPINEATRE of 64, l'OUTARDE of 44, the GREENWICH of 50 and the SAVAGE and UNICORN of 30 guns.
"The Dreadnought getting on the Intrepide's bow, kept her helm hard on starboard to rake her, or if she proceeded, to fall on board in the advantageous situation; but she chose to bear up, and continued to do so during the action till she fell disabled. By thus bearing short on her own ship, those astern were thrown into disorder, from which they never recovered; and when the Intrepide dropped, and was relieved by the Opiniatre, the Greenwich in confusion got on board her, while the Sceptre pressing on, the whole number are furiously cannonaded by the Edinburgh and Augusta, especially the Intrepide, which lay dismantled in a very shattered condition, having a signal out for relief."
BPP ship
Flagship E.Caribbean Squadron, under Commodore Hon. James Norrington Esq.,
Principal Officers: J.Norrington (Commodore), J.Christiansen (Post Captain), T.Gillette (Flag Lieutenant)
HMS Edinburgh (1716) (2nd ship to bear the name)
3rd Rate, 70-gun
The second Edinburgh, a 70 gun 3rd rate, was renamed from HMS Warspite in 1716, rebuilt twice at Chatham Dockyard in 1721 and 1744, before being broken up in 1771 in Plymouth.
HMS Augusta (1718) (nth ship to bear the name)
4th Rate, 60-gun
The Augusta arrived at Portsmouth April 14, 1739. The Master Shipwright in Portsmouth filed a report stating "the bottoms of the Elizabeth and the Augusta were found to be in good condition." A defect was discovered in the main mast of the Augusta requiring repair on May 5, 1739. The Augusta departed for Spithead May 12th after the completion of repairs to the main mast.
On June 9th preparations were commenced to prepare the Augusta for Foreign Service. Captain Thomas Trevor reported June 13th that "the ship's boat was overturned going from Spithead to Portsmouth. The surgeon, Joseph Brothers, was drowned."
John Guy, of the Augusta, requested to relinquish his post as Master of the Augusta, June 20, 1739. Lieutenant Taylor was promoted on June 21, 1739 to Commander of the Augusta, a 60-gun, 4th Rate ship. Sir Chaloner Ogle, hoisted his broad pennant on the Augusta June 26, 1739 and departed Spithead June 30th for excursions to the West Indies.
Two weeks later, a report dated July 13th, came in from Captain Lee that the Augusta had lost her foremast and would require a replacement on arrival at Plymouth Yard. At the end of July, repairs completed to the foremast, Sir Chaloner Ogle departed with the Augusta, along with the Pembrooke and Jersey and the Cruizer Sloop to the Bristol Channel.
The monthly books and tickets for the Augusta were sent by Peter Lawrence from Gibraltar Bay December 8, 1739. Sir Chaloner Ogle, of the Augusta was Rear Admiral of the Blue Squadron by the summer of 1740. Late in August of the same year, the Augusta arrived at the Plymouth Dock with fifty sick men from the Fleet to go the hospital. The Augusta departed August 29, 1740, for the West Indies. Commissioner Richard Hughes, Portsmouth Dock reported receipt of warrant appointing as Master of the Augusta, Elmes Balgay.
Books and tickets of the Augusta, were sent by Charles Dennison from Port Royal, Jamaica on May 18, 1741. Admiral Vernon of the Boyne reported from Port Royal, that the Augusta's mast had sprung the 17th of June, 1741.
HMS Enterprize (1718) (4th ship to bear the name)
5th Rate, 44-gun frigate
The fourth HMS Enterprize, 44, of the Royal Navy was originally commissioned as NORWICH, 50, a fourth-rate, in 1718. On May 23, 1744, while the captured sloop named ENTERPRIZE was still in commission, the Navy renamed NORWICH to ENTERPRIZE while reducing her to a fifth-rate. She patrolled the Caribbean until the end of the War of the Spanish Succession in 1748, when she was laid up in ordinary.
ENTERPRIZE was recommissioned in 1756 at the outbreak of the Seven Years' War, again for service in the West Indies and North America and resuming her duties as Atlantic convoy escort. In 1762 she was present at the siege and capture of Havana, Cuba, an action involving nearly 60 warships and transports enough for more than 16,000 troops.
ENTERPRIZE was decommissioned in January 1764 and was broken up in 1771 at Sheerness.
BPP ship
Frigate E.Caribbean Squadron
Principal Officers:
Jean Rodin Baron de Barre (Post Captain), Wesley Bennett (First Lieutenant), James Montgomery of Duan (Quartermaster)
HMS Rodenberry (1725) (1st ship to bear the name)
Unrated, 12-gun Sloop-of-War
Based on HMS Resolution, a sloop of the Royal Navy and the ship in which Captain James Cook made his second and third voyages of exploration in the Pacific. She impressed him enough that he called her "the ship of my choice", and "the fittest for service of any I have seen."
She began her career as the North Sea collier Drake, launched at Whitby in 1770, was renamed Marquis of Granby, and purchased by the Royal Navy in 1772. She was fitted out at Deptford with the most advanced navigational aids of the day, including a Gregory Azimuth Compass, ice anchors and the latest apparatus for distilling fresh water from sea water. Twelve light 6-pounder guns and twelve swivel guns were carried. At his own expense Cook had brass door-hinges installed in the great cabin. Resolution cost the Admiralty £4,151. Her complement totaled 112 souls.
Lower deck length: 110 ft 8 in (33.73 m)
Keel: 93 ft 6 in (28.50 m)
Maximum beam: 35 ft (11 m)
Draft: 13 ft (4.0 m)
BPP ship
Post Ship E.Caribbean Squadron
Principal Officers:
William Thomas Trent III (Lt./Master and Commander -16), James Watson (First Lieutenant - recent promotion from Midshipman), Peter Foster (Quartermaster)
June 16th - Officers assigned - Midshipman John Terrell (14), Midshipman Edward Cartwright (17)
June 16th - Marine detachment assigned - Eleven (11) men under command of Serjeant Kenneth Worth.
June 16th - Set out from Port Royal bound for Nevis with dispatches.
