HMS Falkland (1696)
{{short description|Ship of the line of the Royal Navy}}
{{other ships|HMS Falkland}}
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HMS Falkland was a 50-gun fourth-rate ship of the line of the Royal Navy, built by Holland of New Castle, New Hampshire, and purchased by the navy in 1696.
She had the distinction of being the first warship built in what would nearly a century later become the United States of America. She was ordered by the British Admiralty in 1690 and delivered on 2 March 1696. Upon the request of the Admiralty to give an opinion of the quality of American timber, the Thames shipwrights stated the material was "of so infirm a nature as not to be fit for use in His Majesty's ships".Fowler, William M. (1976). Rebels under Sail : The American Navy during the Revolution. New York:Charles Scribner's Sons., p. 8. ISBN 9780684145839. During her career she escorted merchant ships to America, and in 1704 engaged the 36-gun French ship La Seine off the Azores. Together with {{HMS|Dreadnought|1691|6}} they succeeded in capturing her and renamed her {{HMS|Falkland Prize|1704|6}}.
She was rebuilt for the first time at Chatham Dockyard in 1702 as a fourth rate of between 46 and 54 guns. Her second rebuilt took place at Deptford, where she was reconstructed according to the 1719 Establishment and relaunched on 28 August 1720. On 8 December 1742 orders were issued for Falkland to be taken to pieces and rebuilt for what was to be the final time at Bursledon, where she was reconstructed according to the 1741 proposals of the 1719 Establishment by Philemon Ewer, and relaunched on 17 March 1744. Falkland was one of the ships dispatched to search for the missing {{HMS|Victory|1737|6}} in 1744, and eventually discovered her likely fate when she stopped to re-provision at Guernsey.
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Falkland was transferred to the Victualling Department on 10 August 1768.
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References
- {{Cite Colledge2006}}
- Lavery, Brian (1983) The Ship of the Line - Volume 1: The development of the battlefleet 1650-1850. Conway Maritime Press. {{ISBN|0-85177-252-8}}.
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