English ship Islip (1654)

History
England
NameIsklip
NamesakeIslip, Northamptonshire
Operator
Ordered1 October 1653
BuilderFrancis Bayley, Bristol
Launched25 March 1654
Commissioned1654
FateWrecked 24 July 1655
General characteristics as built 1654
Type22-gun fifth rate
Sail planship-rigged
Complement100 in 1654
Armament
  • As built 1654
  • 18 x demi-culverins (UD)
  • 4 x sakers (QD)

Islip was a fifth-rate warship of the Commonwealth of England's naval forces, one of six such ships built under the 1653 Programme (the others were Colchester, Fagons, Selby, Basing, and Grantham). She was built by contract with shipwright Francis Bayley at his yard at Bristol, and was launched on 25 March 1654 as a 22-gun fifth rate. She was named Islip to commemorate the victory at that Northamptonshire village over Royalist forces by Parliamentary forces under Oliver Cromwell in 1645 during the Civil War.

There is no record of her tonnage or dimensions. She was armed with 22 guns, comprising 18 demi-culverins on the single gundeck and 4 sakers on the quarterdeck. She was commissioned shortly after completion under Captain Edward Tarleton, but was wrecked the next year off Inverlochy (Lough Linnhe) on 24 July 1655.