HMS Child's Play was a 24-gun French privateer, Le Jeux of St Malo taken by HMS Tartar on 7 June 1706. She was purchased on 6 July 1706. She was commissioned into the Royal Navy on 10 July 1706 for service in the West Indies. She was wrecked in a hurricane in 1707.[1]
Child's Play was the only named vessel in the Royal Navy.[2]
Specifications
She was captured on 7 June 1706 and purchased on 6 July 1706. Her gundeck was 103 feet 0 inches (31.4 metres) with her keel for tonnage calculation of 80 feet 7 inches (24.6 metres). Her breadth for tonnage was 29 feet 6 inches (9.0 metres) with the depth of hold of 10 ft 7 in (3.2 m). Her tonnage calculation was 373+2⁄94 tons. Her armament was twenty-six 6-pounders on the upper deck with and four 3-pounders on the quarterdeck all on wooden trucks.[3]
Commissioned service
She was commissioned on 10 July 1706 under the command of Captain George Doyley, RN for service in the West Indies. Captain Doyley drowned when the ship was lost.[4]
Loss
She was wrecked in a hurricane on Palmetto Point, St Kitts on 30 August 1707.[5]
