HMS Queenborough (1694)

History
England
Name	HMS Queenborough
Ordered	6 April 1694
Builder	Royal Dockyard, Sheerness
Launched	22 December 1694
Commissioned	10 December 1694
Fate	Sold 20 August 1719
General characteristics
Type	20-gun Sixth Rate
Tons burthen	261+83⁄94 bm
Length	96 ft 4 in (29.4 m) gundeck 80 ft 4.5 in (24.5 m) keel for tonnage
Beam	24 ft 9 in (7.5 m) for tonnage
Depth of hold	10 ft 10 in (3.3 m)
Armament	initially as ordered 20 × sakers on wooden trucks (UD) 4 × 3-pdr on wooden trucks (QD) 1703 Establishment 20 × 6-pdrs on wooden trucks (UD) 4 × 4-pdr on wooden trucks (QD)

HMS Queenborough was a member of the standardized 20-gun sixth rates built at the end of the 17th century. The bulk of her career was spent in Home Waters. During her time in the English Channel she took three French privateers. She went to the Leeward Islands where two of her Captains died before returning home. She was sold in 1719.

Queenborough was the second named vessel after it was used for a 4-gun yacht launched at Chatham Dockyard in 1671, rebuilt at Sheerness in 1718 and sold on 11 July 1777.^[1]