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Association

HMS Association

Wrecked

Royal Navy

TypeShip of the line
RateSecond rate
Guns90 guns
WarWar of the Spanish Succession

Sir Cloudesley Shovell's flagship, coming home from the Mediterranean in October 1707. In the dark and with her position badly wrong she struck the Outer Gilstone rock in the Scilly Isles and went down within minutes with all hands, Shovell among them. Her wreck was found in 1967.

Sir Cloudesley Shovell, in the Association, with the Eagle, Rumñy, and the Firebrand, Lost on the Rocks of Scilly, October, 22, 1707 Photo: William Rayner, Public domain · Wikimedia Commons

Armament and specifications

Armament

  • 22 demi-cannons
  • 30 culverins
  • 2 × 6-pdrs
  • 24 sakers
  • 2 × 3-pdrs
BuilderBagwell, Portsmouth Dockyard
Launched1 January 1697
CommissionedJuly 1697
Length165 ft (50.3 m) (gundeck)
Complement800 officers and men (approx.)

As built, from the ship's Wikipedia article. Figures there may cover later refits too.

Career

She isn't listed in any of the fleet actions covered here.

Launched

1 January 1697

Fate

Wrecked

Wrecked, 22 October 1707 (OS)