HMS Hampton Court was a 70-gun third rate ship of the line of the Royal Navy, launched at Deptford Dockyard in 1678.

Her initial commission was to move her to Chatham where she spent in the next ten years in Ordinary.

She held an active commission for the War of the English Succession, participating in the Battles of Beachy Head and Barfleur.

[2] HMS Hampton Court was awarded the Battle Honours Barfleur 1692[3] and Marbella 1705.

[4] She was ordered in April 1677 as part of the "30 ship" program that was authorised by parliament on 23 February 1677.

She was designed and built at Deptford Dockyard by Master Shipwright John Shish.

[6][7] She was commissioned on 9 May 1678 under the command of Captain John Kirke until 17 May 1678 for transport to Chatham where she was placed in Ordinary.

On 10 March 1705 she was at the Battle of Marbella as a member of Vice-Admiral Sir John Leake's Fleet.

Admiral Leake won a crushing victory over the French as all five ships of the line were either captured or destroyed.

[11] Hampton Court was captured in the action of 2 May 1707 by Forbin's squadron off Brighton (Beachy Head).