HMS Falmouth (original) (raw)

Nine ships of the Royal Navy have borne the name HMS Falmouth, after the town of Falmouth: * was a 30-gun ship, formerly the Dutch Rotterdam. She was captured in 1652 and sold in 1658. * HMS Falmouth (1693) was a 58-gun fourth rate launched in 1693 and captured by French privateers in the Mediterranean in 1704. * HMS Falmouth (1708) was a 50-gun fourth rate launched in 1708. She was reconstructed in 1729 and broken up in 1747. * HMS Falmouth (1752) was a 50-gun fourth rate launched in 1752. She was beached and abandoned at Batavia on 16 January 1765 after suffering serious battle damage off Manila. * was a schooner launched in 1807. She was used as a dockyard vessel until 1824 when she was converted to a mortar vessel. She reverted to a dockyard lighter in 1846 and was renamed YC1.