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Hope was a galleon of the English navy, built in 1559. She was rebuilt in 1583 "into the form of a galleass ", and then again rebuilt from 1603 to 1604 when she was renamed Assurance . [ Note 1 ]
Hope (1802 ship) was a small ship launched in 1802. She wrecked at Port Stephens, New South Wales, Australia in 1817. Hope (1802 Peterhead ship) was launched at Peterhead in 1802. She was a whaler in the British northern whale fishery for her entire career. She was lost in July 1830. Hope (1804 ship) was launched at Calcutta.
SS Hope was a hospital ship operated by Project HOPE. [1] This vessel was originally a US Navy hospital ship, USS Consolation (AH-15). Consolation was donated to Project Hope in 1958, and under its new name served from 1960 until 1974, when she was retired. Hope was not replaced, and the emphasis of Project HOPE switched entirely to land-based ...
Sixteen ships of the Royal Navy have borne the name HMS Hope: English ship Hope (1559) was a 48-gun galleon launched in 1559. She was rebuilt with 38-guns and renamed Assurance in 1604 and was broken up in 1645. English ship Hope (1626) was a ship, formerly the French privateer Esperance. She was captured in 1626 and released in 1630.
USS Hope (AH-7) was a Comfort-class hospital ship launched under Maritime Commission contract by Consolidated Steel Corporation, Wilmington, California, 30 August 1943; sponsored by Miss Martha L. Floyd; acquired by the Navy the same day for conversion to a hospital ship by U.S. Naval Dry Dock, Terminal Island, Calif.; and commissioned 15 August 1944.
Hope sailed from Portsmouth on 25 April 1805, bound for China. [1] On 7 August 1805, HMS Blenheim, Captain Austin Bissell and Rear-Admiral Thomas Troubridge, was escorting a fleet of East Indiamen consisting of Castle Eden, Cumberland, Devonshire, Dorsetshire, Exeter, Ganges, Hope, and Preston.
The ship was the first warship built at the yard and the most recent in a line of seventeen ships in Royal Navy service to bear the name. [13] [14] [15] HMS Hope. Hope joined the Second Destroyer Flotilla. [16] On 22 March 1913, Hope was being fuelled at Cromarty when a fire occurred, injuring five men, of which four were seriously injured. [17]
In August 1795, merchant John Brown of Providence, Rhode Island conspired to trade in slaves with Captain Peleg Wood. [4] Hope was the ship to be used; however, the United States had recently limited participation in the international slave trade by Congressional action in 1794.