Sixteen ships of the

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have borne the name HMS ''Hope'': * was a 48-gun

galleon Galleons were large, multi-decked sailing ships first used as armed cargo carriers by European states from the 16th to 18th centuries during the age of sail and were the principal vessels drafted for use as warships until the Anglo-Dutch W ...

launched in 1559. She was rebuilt with 38-guns and renamed ''Assurance'' in 1604 and was broken up in 1645. * was a ship, formerly the French

privateer A privateer is a private person or ship that engages in maritime warfare under a commission of war. Since robbery under arms was a common aspect of seaborne trade, until the early 19th century all merchant ships carried arms. A sovereign or deleg ...

''Esperance''. She was captured in 1626 and released in 1630. * was a 26-gun storeship purchased in 1652 and sold in 1657. * was a 44-gun ship, formerly the Dutch ''Hoop''. She was captured in 1665 and wrecked in 1666. * was a

hoy Hoy ( sco, Hoy; from Norse , meaning "high island") is an island in Orkney, Scotland, measuring – the second largest in the archipelago, after Mainland. A natural causeway, ''the Ayre'', links the island to the smaller South Walls; the tw ...

storeship captured from the Dutch in 1666 and recaptured by them in 1672. * was a 2-gun

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captured from the Dutch in 1672 and sold in 1674. * was a 70-gun

third rate In the rating system of the Royal Navy, a third rate was a ship of the line which from the 1720s mounted between 64 and 80 guns, typically built with two gun decks (thus the related term two-decker). Years of experience proved that the third ...

launched in 1678 and captured by the French in 1695. * was a 6-gun schooner purchased in 1764 and sold in 1778. * was the American mercantile brig ''Sea Nymphe'' that captured on 20 September 1775. The Royal Navy purchased her and renamed her ''Hope''. The American privateer ''General Pickering'' captured her on 21 September 1779 and she became the American privateer ''Duke of Leinster''. recaptured her on 23 May 1781 and the Royal Navy took her back into service as HMS ''Recovery''. The Royal Navy sold her at New York on 14 June 1783. * was a 12-gun cutter, formerly the American ''Lady Washington''. She was purchased in 1780, briefly captured by the French in 1781 but soon retaken, and was sold in 1785. * was a 14-gun

brig-sloop In the 18th century and most of the 19th, a sloop-of-war in the Royal Navy was a warship with a single gun deck that carried up to eighteen guns. The rating system covered all vessels with 20 guns and above; thus, the term ''sloop-of-war'' enc ...

purchased in 1780 and wrecked in 1781. * was a 3-gun gunvessel, formerly a hoy. She was purchased in 1794 and listed until 1798. * was a 14-gun sloop, formerly the Dutch ''Star''. She was captured in 1795 and sold in 1807. * was a 10-gun launched in 1808 and sold in 1819. Between 1822 and 1839 she made six voyages as a

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in the British Southern Whale Fishery. * was a 10-gun tender launched in 1813. She was converted into a tank vessel and renamed ''YC42'' in 1863 and was in service until 1880. * was a 3-gun packet brig, adapted from the ''Cherokee''-class design and launched in 1824. She was used for harbour service from 1854 and was broken up in 1882. * was an launched in 1910 and sold in 1920.

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