HMS Charles Galley was a 32–gun fifth rate of the Royal Navy built at Woolwich Dockyard and launched in 1676. She was rebuilt in 1693, and again at Deptford...

renamed HMS Dreadnought in 1660, and foundered in 1690. HMS Torrington was a 32–gun fifth rate launched in 1676 as HMS Charles Galley. Charles Galley was...

1691 as a fifth rate – 40 guns HMS England (1693) purchased 1693 – 40 guns. HMS Charles Galley – 32 guns, launched 1676, rebuilt 1693, renamed Torrington...

transferred to the sixth-rate HMS James Galley in April 1681, to the third-rate HMS Anne in April 1687 and to the fourth-rate HMS Dover in April 1688. Throughout...

Admiral Narborough in 1677. From the Charles Galley he transferred first to HMS James, then HMS Newcastle and HMS Plymouth in turn, serving as master aboard...

Thomas Mathews (October 1676 – 2 October 1751) was a British officer of the Royal Navy, who rose to the rank of admiral. Mathews joined the navy in 1690...

May (4 May OS) Fredrikshamn/Hamina in Finland – Swedish galley flotilla defeats Russian galley flotilla. 3 and 4 June (23 and 24 May OS) – Action off Kronstadt...

contrary winds and, on 7 January 1676, while cruising near the Lipari Islands and accompanied by several Spanish galleys, he encountered the French fleet...

ship HMS Charles V ( Royal Navy) was burnt by the Dutch. The guard ship HMS Matthias ( Royal Navy) was burnt by the Dutch. The guard ship HMS Sancta Maria...

Burrish; HMS Dorsetshire (2) John Ambrose; HMS Rupert (3) Edmund Williams; HMS Royal Oak (4) Richard Norris; HMS Essex (5) Thomas Cooper; HMS Stirling...

Alexander Selkirk (1676 – 13 December 1721) was a Scottish privateer and Royal Navy officer who spent four years and four months as a castaway (1704–1709)...

recorded 1524 Henry Galley (built 1512) – lost 1513 Rose Galley (1512) – last recorded 1521 Kateryn Galley (1512) – last recorded 1527 Galley Subtile (built...

design evolved, reintroducing oars and resulting in galley frigates such as HMS Charles Galley of 1676, which was rated as a 32-gun fifth-rate but also had...

as the clerk of a force of galleys to be used against Philip Augustus of France. In 1206 King John ordered 54 royal galleys to be constructed and between...

before becoming a pirate, becomes an outlaw and uses his ship, the Adventure Galley, to capture an Indian ship, the valuable Quedagh Merchant, near India. February...

by British American forces. However, the Massachusetts privateer HMS Shirley Galley, commanded by John Rous, attacks the Renommée and forces it to sail...

and references to "flogging schools" in Thomas Shadwell's The Virtuoso (1676) and Tim Tell-Troth's Knavery of Astrology (1680). Visual evidence such as...

added to the RN as HMS Portland's Prize Atalante 52 guns (launched 16 March 1741 at Toulon, designed and built by Joseph Véronique-Charles Chapelle) – burnt...

sea by other ancient, seafaring civilizations of the Mediterranean. The galley was a long, narrow, highly maneuverable ship powered by oarsmen, sometimes...

Captain Mellis wrecked near Porthleven. 10 November – the 127 ft HMS Royal Anne Galley, ( Royal Navy) the last oared fighting ship built for the Royal...

Molinari, Roman Catholic prelate, Bishop of Lettere-Gragnano (1676–1698) (b. 1626) July 13 – Charles Somerset, Marquess of Worcester, English nobleman and politician...

fourth-rates not designed for the line of battle—the galley-frigates Charles Galley and James Galley of 1676. It also excludes four fifth-rates of 36 guns (the...

but was downsized to 24 of them, notably because of a lack of galley slaves — each galley was 400 or 500 slave strong. The oceanic force was to be composed...

by British American forces. However, the Massachusetts privateer HMS Shirley Galley, commanded by John Rous, attacks the Renommée and forces it to sail...

the pirate capture of the Princes Galley, a slaver heading to the Caribbean. The pirates pursued and caught the galley, firing their guns to slow and stop...

ships in the Finnish archipelago, against which Sweden could deploy only 7 galleys and 30 gun sloops. Swedish efforts to harass the Russians with landings...

country since that day. Account of Captives sold by Mass. Colony. August 24th, 1676. John Hull's Journal page 398. Winiarski, Douglas L. (September 2004). Rhoads...

Battle of Sluis 26 May – Spanish fleet of 8 Galleys defeated by the Dutch fleet of 3 men of war, 2 galleys and several smaller vessels. The Spanish commander...

Strangways, English politician (d. 1676) October 23 – Hedwig Eleonora of Holstein-Gottorp, queen consort of King Charles X of Sweden (d. 1715) October 31...

Bracken Books. Johnson, Charles (1724) A General History of the Pyrates. 2 vols. London: Charles Rivington Johnson, Charles (1724) A General History...