HMS Good Hope

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 a Drake-class 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 (K432), which was laid down as HMS Loch Boisdale in 1944 but renamed and transferred to the South African Navy before completion.

References

• Colledge, J. J.; Warlow, Ben (2006) [1969]. Ships of the Royal Navy: The Complete Record of all Fighting Ships of the Royal Navy (Rev. ed.). London: Chatham Publishing. ISBN 978-1-86176-281-8. OCLC 67375475.