Listed as a Small Sixth Rate.

NOTTINGHAM PRIZE, 1704-1706. French? Taken early 1704 by NOTTINGHAM; 1706 breakwater.

Dimensions: 46', 37' 6" x 14' 3" x 5', 40 tons. (1)

NOTTINGHAM PRIZE, ketch of 4 guns, 40 tons BM, 46' x 14.5'. Captured 14-APR-1704. Sunk 31-JUL-1706 as breakwater, Sheerness. (2)

Reference: Queen's Warrant Book XXIII, pp473, 474-7

'Jan. 15, 1709. Royal Warrant to the Clerk of the Signet for a privy seal to authorise the sale of decayed naval stores as in a schedule annexed which upon a survey have been found unsuitable for the Navy.

'Appending: Order of Council dated St. James's Dec. 30 last directing said sale. Followed by: said schedule of decayed, unserviceable and useless stores in the several Yards of Deptford, Woolwich, Chatham, Sheerness, Deal, Portsmouth, Plymouth and Kinsale...the NOTTINGHAM PRIZE sunk at Sheerness for a breakwater 31 July 1706...' (3)

Crew: complement of 34 (1)
Armament: 2 falcons + 2 sakers + 4 patteroes (1); 4 guns (2)
Owner: Royal Navy [all sources]

Date of Loss Qualifier: Actual date of loss

<1> The Sailing Navy List: all the ships of the Royal Navy built, purchased and captured 1688-1860, p193 (Monograph). SKE6712.

<2> J J Colledge, 1989, Ships of the Royal Navy, volume 1, p390 (Bibliographic reference). SKE6390.

<3> Calendar of Treasury Books (Bibliographic reference). SKE56299.