HMS Child's Play was a 24-gun French privateer, Le Jeux of St Malo taken by HMS Tartar on 7 June 1706. She was purchased on 6 July 1706. She was commissioned into the Royal Navy on 10 July 1706 for service in the West Indies. She was wrecked in a hurricane in 1707.Winfield
Child's Play was the only named vessel in the Royal Navy.Colledge
Specifications She was captured on 7 June 1706 and purchased on 6 July 1706. Her gundeck was with her keel for tonnage calculation of . Her breadth for tonnage was with the depth of hold of . Her tonnage calculation was tons. Her armament was twenty-six 6-pounders on the upper deck and four 3-pounders on the quarterdeck all on wooden trucks.Winfield
Commissioned service She was commissioned on 10 July 1706 under the command of Captain George Doyley, RN for service in the West Indies. Captain Doyley drowned when the ship was lost.Winfield
Loss She was wrecked in a hurricane on Palmetto Point, St Kitts on 30 August 1707.Winfield
Citations
References Winfield, British Warships in the Age of Sail (1603 – 1714), by Rif Winfield, published by Seaforth Publishing, England © 2009, EPUB , Chapter 6, The Sixth Rates, Vessels acquired from 18 December 1688, Sixth Rates of 20 guns and up to 26 guns, Ex-French Prizes (1704–09), Child's Play Colledge, Ships of the Royal Navy, by J.J. Colledge, revised and updated by Lt Cdr Ben Warlow and Steve Bush, published by Seaforth Publishing, Barnsley, Great Britain, © 2020, e (EPUB), Section S (Childs Play)