Second Lieutenant Francis Farndale RN
17 July 1681 (baptised)
FAR00113B
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1681
Francis
Farndale, son of John and Margarita (Margaret) (nee Herd) Farndale (FAR00087) of Whitby was baptised at St Mary the Virgin,
Whitby, on 17 July 1681 (Whitby PR).
1711
Francis
Farndale (FAR00135), son of
Francis Farndale, was baptised at Whitby on
30 September 1711 (Whitby PR).
1712
By
1712, Francis Farndale Senior, aged about 31, was a Second Lieutenant on the
Dreadnaught in the Royal Navy. He signed off a list of 32 men who had been
issued with double hammocks dated 17 March 1712 (The National Archives,
ADM 106/672/103).
One
of the sailors listed was Jas Spark, and it may be relevant that Francis’ son,
Francis Junior, later married Margaret Spark, so this could be the same family.
The
first Dreadnought was an armed galleon of the Tudor Navy which fought under Sir
Francis Drake, harassing the Spanish Armada. She served from 1573 to 1648. Dreadnaughts
II, III, IV and V were all ships of the Line, armed with 52 to 98 guns,
launched between 1654 and 1801. Dreadnaught V served in the Battle of
Trafalgar.
It
seems likely that Second Lieutenant served on HMS Dreadnought III, a 64
gun third rate ship of the line of the Royal Navy launched at Blackwall Yard in
1691. She had been reduced to a fourth rate ship in 1697. She was rebuilt in
1706 and broken up in 1748.