HMS Antelope (1703)
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| Name: | HMS Antelope |
| Builder: | Taylor, Rotherhithe |
| Launched: | 13 March 1703 |
| Fate: | Sold out of the service, 30 October 1783 |
| General characteristics as built | |
| Class and type: | 50-gun fourth rate ship of the line |
| Tons burthen: | 684 80⁄94 (bm) |
| Length: | 131 ft 5 in (40.1 m) (gundeck) |
| Beam: | 34 ft 4 1⁄2 in (10.5 m) |
| Depth of hold: | 13 ft 9 in (4.2 m) |
| Propulsion: | Sails |
| Sail plan: | Full rigged ship |
| Armament: | 50 guns of various weights of shot |
| General characteristics after 1741 rebuild | |
| Class and type: | 1733 proposals 50-gun fourth rate ship of the line |
| Tons burthen: | 860 44⁄94 (bm) |
| Length: | 134 ft (40.8 m) (gundeck) |
| Beam: | 38 ft 6 in (11.7 m) |
| Depth of hold: | 15 ft 9 in (4.8 m) |
| Propulsion: | Sails |
| Sail plan: | Full rigged ship |
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HMS Antelope was a 50-gun fourth rate ship of the line of the Royal Navy, launched at Rotherhithe on 13 March 1703. She was rebuilt once during her career, and served in the Seven Years' War and the American Revolutionary War.
Orders were issued on 9 January 1738 for Antelope to be taken to pieces and rebuilt according to the 1733 proposals of the 1719 Establishment at Woolwich, from where she was relaunched on 27 January 1741.
On 16 June 1756, she sailed from England for Gibraltar with Vice Admiral Sir Edward Hawke, 1st Baron Hawke and Rear Admiral Charles Saunders. She arrived there on 3 July with an order to supersede Admiral John Byng. Antelope returned to England with Byng, sailing on 9 July and arriving at Spithead on 26 July, where Byng was arrested before being landed on 19 August. His trial started on board St George on 27 December.
On 30 April 1757, Captain Samuel Hood took command of Antelope. On 15 May, after a short action off Brest, France, the French Aquilon, 50, was driven on to the rocks in Audierne Bay where she was wrecked. Then, on 31 October 1758, in the Kingroad off Portishead, Antelope took Belliqueux, 64, one of a French squadron returning from Quebec, that had anchored off Ilfracombe, Antelope opened fire but the French ship surrendered without having fired a shot in return.
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