HMS Chatham (1758)

{{Use dmy dates|date=December 2017}} {{Use British English|date=December 2017}} {{Infobox ship |section1={{Infobox ship/image |image=HMS Chatham (maritime journal of Robert Raymond) 043026 cropped.jpg |image_caption=His Majesty's Ship ''Chatham'' of 50 guns in the 1770s. Commanded by Vice Admiral William Perry. Captain James Worth, a watercolour by Robert Raymond, her Warrant Officer. }}

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'''HMS ''Chatham''''' was a 50-gun fourth rate ship of the line of the Royal Navy, designed by Sir Joseph Allin and built by his son Edward Allin at Portsmouth Dockyard to the draught specified by the 1745 Establishment as amended in 1752, and launched on 25 April 1758.<ref name="Lavery, SoLv1 p174" />

==Career==

The ''Chatham'', was a part of the British flotilla anchored off Staten Island on 25 June 1776, in the opening phases of the Battle of Long Island.<ref name="Raymond">{{cite web |last1=Raymond |first1=Robert |title=Maritime Journal of Robert Raymond 1767-1783 |url=https://www.christies.com/lotfinder/Lot/maritime-journal-raymond-robert-manuscript-journal-of-6005471-details.aspx |website=Christies.com |access-date=25 October 2020}}</ref>

On 2 September 1781 ''Chatham'' captured the French frigate ''Magicienne'' off Cape Ann after a sanguinary engagement. ''Magicienne'' was serving in Orvilliers' fleet under Captain Janvre de la Bouchetière{{sfnp|Contenson|1934|p=195}}{{sfnp|Kérallain|1928|p=31}} In the action the French lost 60 men killed and 40 wounded; the British lost one man killed and one man wounded.<ref>{{London Gazette|issue=12239|page=4|date=3 November 1781}}</ref> ''Magicienne'' was described as being of 800 tons, 36 guns and 280 men.<ref>{{London Gazette|issue=12279|page=1|date=16 March 1782}}</ref> She was subsequently taken to Halifax and recommissioned in the Royal Navy as HMS ''Magicienne''.

==Fate== ''Chatham'' was placed on harbour service in 1793, and continued in this role until 1814, when the decision was taken to have her broken up.<ref name="Lavery, SoLv1 p174" />

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==References== {{refbegin}} * {{cite book |last1=Contenson |first1=Ludovic |author-link1=Ludovic de Contenson|title=La Société des Cincinnati de France et la guerre d'Amérique (1778–1783) |date=1934 |publisher=éditions Auguste Picard |location=Paris|url=https://gallica.bnf.fr/ark:/12148/bpt6k65709399|oclc=7842336}} * {{cite journal |last1=Kérallain|first1=R. |date=1928 |title=Bougainville à l'armée du Cte de Grasse|url=https://www.persee.fr/doc/jsa_0037-9174_1928_num_20_1_3639 |journal=Journal de la société des américanistes |volume=20 |issue=20 |pages=1–70 |doi=10.3406/jsa.1928.3639 |access-date=29 April 2020}} *Lavery, Brian (1983) ''The Ship of the Line – Volume 1: The development of the battlefleet 1650–1850''. Conway Maritime Press. {{ISBN|0-85177-252-8}}. {{refend}}

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