1660, her name was changed to HMS Royal James, and she was re-registered as a first rate ship of the line in the Royal Navy. This involved adding gunports...

ships of the Royal Navy have borne the name HMS Royal James: HMS Royal James (1658), a 70-gun second-rate ship of the line launched in 1658 as the Richard...

Chatham in 1658, as a 48-gun third rate ship of the line. By 1677 Lion was mounting 60 guns. She was sold out of the navy in 1698. The 'HMS' prefix was...

contemporary sources) was a Speaker-class third rate, commissioned into the Royal Navy as HMS Gloucester after the restoration of the English monarchy in 1660....

Cromwell (1599–1658), English general, Lord Protector and politician whose nickname was "Old Ironsides" HMS Britannia, a 100-gun Royal Navy first rate...

'Zeelandia' (1652)". "Dutch Fourth Rate ship of the line 'Delft' (1658)". became HMS Delft became HMS Zealand "Dutch Fifth Rate ship 'Schakerloo' (1661)". "Dutch...

1656 Forrester – launched 3 September 1657 Bradford – launched March 1658, renamed HMS Success in 1660 Sixth rates were single-decked vessels, with a battery...

HMS Diana was variously described as a brig or cutter. Her origins are currently obscure, but the British Royal Navy acquired her at Bombay in 1807. In...

awoke to "surprising effectiveness" of formulating sedition within the Royal Navy". HMS Defiance, which had been part of the "floating republic" at Spithead...

under the authority of Rear-Admiral Richard Stayner and first put to sea in 1658 under the command of Captain William Whitehorne as acting commander-in-chief...

rebuilding 1637 – HMS Sovereign of the Seas; first-rate ship of the line, ordered by Charles I 1655 – Naseby, later renamed HMS Royal Charles 1658 – Richard,...

Oliver Cromwell (25 April 1599 – 3 September 1658) was an English statesman, politician, and soldier, widely regarded as one of the most important figures...

of Captain Richard Newbery. Happy Entrance was destroyed by fire in 1658. The 'HMS' prefix was not used until the middle of the Eighteenth Century, but...

the Royal Navy and underwent training at Dartmouth from the age of twelve and was appointed acting sub-lieutenant in 1878. He was posted to HMS Bellerophon...

and commissioned under Captain James Cooke on 10 June 1667. On 2 April she got a new commander, Captain Hugh Riley. HMS Providence was wrecked at Tangier...

between the fort and the British batteries, manned mainly by Royal Marines and sailors from HMS Nisus. A sortie from the fort early on the morning of 22 August...

Gibraltar Sir Frank Hopkins, Royal Navy Admiral, a former captain of the aircraft carrier HMS Ark Royal Rear-Admiral Bartholomew James (1752 – 1828), naval officer...

merchant and politician (b. 1658) William Joliffe, English politician (b. 1622) "Alderney Local History - 1712 Wreck of HMS Dragon". sites.google.com....

original versions of the Union Jack. However, the flag of the Protectorate from 1658 to 1660 was inescutcheoned with the arms of Ireland. These were removed at...

Throughout the James Bond series of films and novels, Q Branch has given Bond a variety of vehicles with which to battle his enemies. Among the most noteworthy...

HMS Loyal London ( Royal Navy) was burnt by the Dutch. The second rate HMS Royal James ( Royal Navy) was burnt by the Dutch. The first rate HMS Royal...

80 (1655) – Renamed Royal Charles 1660, captured by the Netherlands, 1667, BU. Second rates Richard 70 (1658) – Renamed Royal James 1660, burnt 1667. Dunbar...

incorporation of the Scottish Episcopal Church. 15 March – HMS Dragon, a 38-gun fourth rate frigate of the Royal Navy, is wrecked on Les Casquets rocks to the west...

Baltic Squadron, were a series of formations of the British Royal Navy which existed between 1658 to 1856. They consisted of ships assembled at Spithead,...

Flushing Remonstrance lays groundwork for religious freedom in America. 1658 – Death of Oliver Cromwell 1660 – The Restoration of the monarchy in England...

HMS Julia was a British Royal Navy 16-gun brig-sloop of the Seagull class launched in February 1806. After a fairly uneventful decade-long career she...

Battle of Culloden in 1746, Royal Navy crews under the command of Captain John Fergussone of HMS Furnace and Captain Duff of HMS Terror portaged overland...

In February 1780, the crews of HMS Resolution (1771) and HMS Discovery (1774), on the way home after Captain James Cook's death in Hawaiʻi, stopped...

Lord Protector Oliver Cromwell was given an elaborate funeral there in 1658, only for a body thought to be Cromwell's to be disinterred in January 1661...

and is severely damaged. 2017 30 January – Attack on HMS Al Madinah – Royal Saudi Navy frigate HMS Al Madinah is struck by a remote controlled suicide...