HMS Good Hope

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Three ships of the British Royal Navy have been named HMS Good Hope.

• The first Good Hope, 35, was captured by the French in May 1665.
• The second Good Hope, 6, was a flyboat captured from the Dutch in 1665 and sold in 1667.
• The third Good Hope was an armoured cruiser launched in 1901 and sunk in 1914 at the Battle of Coronel.

There was also a South African Loch class frigate HMSAS Good Hope, which was laid down as HMS Loch Boisdale in 1944 but renamed and transferred to the South African Navy before completion.

[edit] References

• J. J. Colledge, Ships of the Royal Navy, Greenhill Books, 1987.