HMS Adventure (1646)

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

Portrait of the Adventure as a 40-gun fourth-rate, drawn by Willem van de Velde the Elder
History
Royal Navy EnsignEngland
NameAdventure
OrderedDecember 1645
BuilderWoolwich Dockyard
Launched1646
Commissioned1646
Honours and
awards
  • Dover 1652
  • Portland 1653
  • Gabbard 1653
  • Scheveningen 1653
  • Lowestoffe 1665
  • Oxfordness 1666
  • Solebay 1672
  • Golden Horse Action 1681
  • Two Lions Action 1681
CapturedBy the French on 1 March 1709
General characteristics
Class and type34-gun Fourth-Rate
Tons burthen385+3⁄94 bm
Length94 ft (29 m) keel for tonnage
Beam27 ft 9 in (8.5 m)
Draught13 ft 9 in (4.2 m)
Depth of hold13 ft (4 m)
Sail planship-rigged
Armament
  • at launch
  • 34 guns
  • 1666 Establishment
  • 10 culverins
  • 26 demi-culverins
  • 4 sakers
  • 1677 Establishment
  • 20 demi-culverins
  • 18 6-pdr guns
  • 4 sakers
  • in 1685
  • 10 culverins
  • 12 demi-culverins
  • 16 sakers
  • 4 3-pdr guns
General characteristics after 1691 rebuild
Class and type44-gun fourth-rate ship
Tons burthen438+91⁄94 bm
Length
  • 117 ft (36 m) gundeck
  • 98 ft (30 m) keel for tonnage
Beam29 ft 0 in (8.8 m)
Depth of hold12 ft (4 m)
Sail planship-rigged
Armament
  • 18/16 9-pdrs guns on wooden trucks (LD)
  • 20/16 6-pdrs guns on wooden trucks (UD)
  • 6 X 3-pdr guns on wooden trucks (QD) replaced in 1703 by 4-pdrs

HMS Adventure was a 34-gun fourth-rate of the English Navy, built by Peter Pett II at Woolwich Dockyard and launched in 1646. With the outbreak of the English Civil War she served on the Parliamentary side until 1649. She was incorporated into the Commonwealth Navy in 1650. She partook in the Battle off Dover in 1652, the Battle of Portland and the Battle of Gabbard in 1653. Adventure was employed on Bulstrode Whitelocke's embassy to Sweden, 1653–1654.[1] After the Restoration she was incorporated into the Royal Navy. She was present at the Battle of Lowestoft (1665) and the Battle of Solebay (1672). She also participated in the Golden Horse and Two Lions actions in 1681.[2] She was in the Battle of Barfleur in 1692. She captured several ships in the later part of her career, before being captured by the French in 1709.[3]

Adventure was the second named vessel since it was used for a 26-gun galley, built at Deptford in 1594 and broken up in 1645.[4]

  1. ^ T. Becket, p.98.
  2. ^ Winfield 9
  3. ^ Winfield 10
  4. ^ Colledge