English ship Adventure (1646)

Portrait of the Adventure as a 40-gun fourth-rate, drawn by Willem van de Velde the Elder
History
England [1]
Name	Adventure
Ordered	December 1645
Builder	Woolwich Dockyard
Launched	1646
Commissioned	1646
Honours and awards	Dover 1652 Portland 1653 Gabbard 1653 Scheveningen 1653 Lowestoffe 1665 Oxfordness 1666 Solebay 1672 Golden Horse Action 1681 Two Lions Action 1681 Barfleur 1692
Captured	By the French on 1 March 1709
General characteristics
Class and type	34-gun Fourth-Rate
Tons burthen	3853⁄94 bm
Length	94 ft (29 m) keel for tonnage
Beam	27 ft 9 in (8.5 m)
Draught	13 ft 9 in (4.2 m)
Depth of hold	13 ft (4 m)
Sail plan	ship-rigged
Armament	at launch 34 guns 1666 Establishment 10 culverins 26 demi-culverins 4 sakers 1677 Establishment 20 demi-culverins 18 6-pounder guns 4 sakers in 1685 10 culverins 12 demi-culverins 16 sakers 4 3-pounder guns
General characteristics after 1691 rebuild
Class and type	44-gun fourth-rate ship
Tons burthen	43891⁄94 bm
Length	117 ft (36 m) gundeck 98 ft (30 m) keel for tonnage
Beam	29 ft 0 in (8.8 m)
Depth of hold	12 ft (4 m)
Sail plan	ship-rigged
Armament	18/16 9-pounder guns on wooden trucks (LD) 20/16 6-pounder guns on wooden trucks (UD) 6 x 3-pounder guns on wooden trucks (QD) replaced in 1703 by 4-pounders

Adventure was a 34-gun fourth-rate of the English Navy, built by Peter Pett II at Woolwich Dockyard and launched in 1646. With the outbreak of the English Civil War she served on the Parliamentary side until 1649. She was incorporated into the Commonwealth Navy in 1650. She partook in the Battle off Dover in 1652, the Battle of Portland and the Battle of Gabbard in 1653. Adventure was employed on Bulstrode Whitelocke's embassy to Sweden, 1653–1654.^[2] After the Restoration she was incorporated into the Royal Navy. She was present at the Battle of Lowestoft (1665) and the Battle of Solebay (1672). She also participated in the Golden Horse and Two Lions actions in 1681.^[1] She was in the Battle of Barfleur in 1692. She captured several ships in the later part of her career, before being captured by the French in 1709.^[1]

Adventure was the second vessel to be given that name in the English Navy, since it had been used for a 26-gun galley, built at Deptford in 1594 and broken up in 1645.^[3]