HMS Southsea Castle (1697)

HMS Southsea Castle was a 32-gun fifth rate built at Deptford Dockyard in 1694/95.

She was the second vessel to bear the name Southsea Castle since it was used for a 32-gun fifth rate built by Knowles of Redbridge on 1 August 1696 and wrecked on Dove Sand on 15 September 1697.

She was ordered on 24 December 1696 to be built at Deptford Dockyard under the guidance of Master Shipwright Fisher Harding.

In 1699 Captain Thomas Stepney was assigned as her commander for service at Jamaica.

[1] She was wrecked along with HMS Bideford on Île-à-Vache, off the coast of Hispaniola, on 12 November 1699.