The Hampton Court and other 1715 Fleet Vessels

[itmaiden]

Decided to see what I could find out about the Hampton Court, an English vessel the Spanish "acquired" which sailed as part of the 1715 fleet and found this early oil painting of the ship.

http://www.bmagic.org.uk/objects/1972P53

Not that large of a ship. Only a 3 mast.

 

[wreckdiver1715]

Hampton Court was renamed Nuestra Senora del Carmen after its capture at sea by the fleet of General Don Antonio de Echeverz. Today she is known as the Rio Mar Wreck, and sits about 900 yards off of the first green at the Rio mar Golf Course. My records have her as a fairly large 713-ton vessel with 72 Guns, that Echeverz later made his Capitana.

 

[Smithbrown]

The painting is of the first Hampton Court, before the rebuild c1700.

Smithbrown

 

[Smithbrown]

But it does remind me that the National Maritime Museum in Greenwich has put its painting collection online: http://www.nmm.ac.uk/collections/explore/index.cfm/category/oilpaintings

Smithbrown

 

[itmaiden]

Thanks for the info as I was reading some conflicting information on the ship or let's say not so clear.

itmaiden

The painting is of the first Hampton Court, before the rebuild c1700.

Smithbrown

 

[grossmusic]

2013's Shipwright came out last month. It features the Hampton Court:
Shipwright 2013: The International Annual of Maritime History & Ship Modelmaking (Incorporating Model Shipwright): John Bowen, Jean Hood: 9781844861606: Amazon.com: Books

More info about the ship can be obtained via its sister ship Lenox:
Amazon.com: The Restoration Warship: The Design, Construction and Career of a Third Rate of Charles II's Navy (9781591147121): Richard Endsor: Books