HMS Southampton (1693) explained

HMS Southampton was a 50-gun fourth rate ship of the line of the Royal Navy, ordered to be built by commercial contract by John Winter at Chapel, Southampton^[1] (ordered on the same day as the similar Portland from Woolwich Dockyard). The Southampton was launched on 10 June 1693.^[2]

On 29 April 1699 she was ordered to be taken apart at Deptford Dockyard to be rebuilt, and was re-launched there in 1700 as a fourth rate of 54 guns (reduced to 46 guns during peacetime). The Southampton was refitted and re-classed as a 40-gun Fifth Rate in 1716, had a large repair at Chatham Dockyard from 1722 to 1724, was removed from service and hulked at Port Antonio (Jamaica) in 1728, and continued in this role until 1771, when she was broken up.^[3]

References

• Lavery, Brian (2003) The Ship of the Line – Volume 1: The development of the battlefleet 1650-1850. Conway Maritime Press. .
• Winfield, Rif (1997), The 50-Gun Ship: A Complete History. Chatham Publishing (1st edition); Mercury Books (2nd edition 2005). .
• Winfield, Rif (2009), British Warships in the Age of Sail 1603–1714: Design, Construction, Careers and Fates. Barnsley, UK; Seaforth Publishing. .

Notes and References

1. A. J. Holland, Ships of British Oak (David & Charles, Newton Abbot, 1971. .
2. Rif Winfield, British Warships in the Age of Sail 1603–1714, p.133.
3. Rif Winfield, British Warships in the Age of Sail 1603–1714, p.139.