HMS Sheerness (1691)

[Note 3] After commissioning she spent her career in Home Waters, North America, the Mediterranean and the West Indies.[3] She was ordered on 28 June 1689 from Chatham Dockyard to be built under the guidance of Master Shipwright Daniel Furzer.[4] HMS Sheerness was commissioned in 1691 under the command of Captain Anthony Roope, RN for service in the North Sea.[5] Captain William Urry, RN was in command in 1701. she was off Dunkirk in 1702 then went to the Orkney Islands with Beaumont's squadron then was with Shovel's Fleet in October.[7] She was ordered to be rebuilt on 116 December 1729 at Deptford Dockyard under the guidance of Master Shipwright Richard Stacey.[9] She was completed for sea on 11 February 1732 at a cost of £6,026[Note 7][10] She was commissioned in January 1732 under the command of Captain Robert Fytche, RN for service at Newfoundland and moved to the Mediterranean in 1733.
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