Name Jersey Commissioned 1654 Acquired 1691 Launched 1654 | Builder Starling, Maldon Captured 1691, by the French Fate Destroyed, 10 May 1694 Draft 4.72 m | |
HMS Jersey was a 40-gun fourth rate frigate of the English Navy, originally built for the navy of the Commonwealth of England at Maldon, and launched in 1654. By 1677 her armament had been increased to 48 guns.
In 1669, the diarist Samuel Pepys, while a member of the Navy Board, was temporarily named captain of Jersey as a legal maneuver to make him eligible to sit on a court-martial.
Jersey was captured by the French in 1691.
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