HMS Yarmouth (1653)

For other ships with the same name, see HMS Yarmouth.

History
England
Name	Yarmouth
Ordered	27 December 1652
Builder	Edmund Edgar, Great Yarmouth
Launched	1653
Fate	Broken up, 1680
General characteristics
Class and type	44-gun fourth-rate frigate
Length	105 ft (32.0 m) (keel)
Beam	33 ft (10.1 m)
Depth of hold	13 ft 3 in (4.0 m)
Sail plan	Full-rigged ship
Armament	44 guns (1660); 54 guns (1677)

Yarmouth was a 44-gun fourth-rate frigate of the English Royal Navy, originally built for the navy of the Commonwealth of England at Great Yarmouth under the 1652 Programme, and launched in 1653. By 1666 her original armament of 44 guns (24-pounders on the lower deck, and a mixture of culverins and demi-culverins on the upper deck) had been increased to 52 guns by the addition of smaller cannon (sakers) on the quarterdeck, and by 1677 she carried 54 guns.

Yarmouth took part in the Battle of Lowestoft in 1665, in the Four Days Battle and the St James's Day Fight in 1666, in the Battle of Solebay in 1672 and in the Battle of Schooneveld and Battle of Texel in 1673. She was broken up in 1680.

References

• Lavery, Brian (2003) The Ship of the Line – Volume 1: The development of the battlefleet 1650-1850. Conway Maritime Press. ISBN 978-0-85177-252-3.
• Winfield, Rif (2009) British Warships in the Age of Sail 1603-1714: Design, Construction, Careers and Fates. Seaforth Publishing, ISBN 978-1-84832-040-6.