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    the Royal Charles, anonymous, c. 1663 - c. 1664 Rijksmuseum website: Ship models Wikimedia Commons has media related to HMS Royal Charles (ship, 1655)....
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  • ships of the British Royal Navy have been named HMS Royal Charles, both after King Charles II. The first HMS Royal Charles (1655) was an 80-gun ship of...
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  • In the Royal Navy, the fleet flagship is, in practice, the warship designated as the fleet's most prestigious vessel, currently HMS Queen Elizabeth. In...
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  • town on the South Island of New Zealand Naseby, original name of HMS Royal Charles (1655), an English Navy ship of the line Eileen Naseby (born 1943), Australian...
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  • captured in 1650 and sold in 1655. HMS Eagle (1660) was a 22-gun armed ship, previously named HMS Selby. She was renamed HMS Eagle in 1660, used as a fireship...
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    Commonwealth, and then HMS Royal Sovereign at the Restoration of Charles II. The elaborately gilded stern ordered by Charles I of England meant enemy...
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  • the English Royal Navy brought Charles II back from his exile in Holland in May 1660, aboard the hastily renamed HMS Royal Charles (1655). Again in 1688...
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    a formation or command of the United Kingdom's Royal Navy stationed at Port Royal in Jamaica from 1655 to 1830. The station was formed, following the...
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    renamed HMS Guernsey in 1660 Grantham – launched 1654, renamed HMS Garland in 1660 Norwich – launched 11 September 1655 Pembroke – launched September 1655 Dartmouth...
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  • Anglican Communion. 23 May (2 June N.S.) – Charles II embarks from Scheveningen on HMS Royal Charles (1655), captained by Edward Montagu (created Earl...
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    his flagship being the Royal James. The Red (or Centre) Squadron was under the Duke of York - his flagship being the Royal Charles. The Blue (or Rear) Squadron...
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    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....
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  • collected Charles II of England from Holland and brought him back from exile. Charles renamed the ship HMS Mary. At the Restoration, Speaker was renamed HMS Mary...
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    Early English Jamaica, 1655–89," The Economic History Review 39, no. 2 (1986): 205–222. Michael Pawson and David Buisseret, Port Royal, Jamaica (Kingston:...
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  • Gabbard, Scheveningen and Porto Fina. She was incorporated into the Royal Navy as HMS Merlin in May 1660. She continued her duties in trade protection and...
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    privates) Royal Air Force – 1 (1 officer) Of the 86 Royal Navy personnel, 22 were lost in HMS Ardent, 19 + 1 lost in HMS Sheffield, 19 + 1 lost in HMS Coventry...
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    October 1673) was an English officer of the Royal Navy, who served first under the Commonwealth, then Charles II following the 1660 Stuart Restoration....
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    Clan Watson (category Wikipedia articles incorporating a citation from the Royal Naval Biography (1823))
    Midshipman aboard HMS Defence during the Battle of Trafalgar under the command of Capt. George Johnstone Hope. Charles also served upon frigate HMS Unité as a...
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  • Canadian freighter attacked by German submarine U-514 HMS Cornwallis, several ships of the Royal Navy Cornwallis, one of several 18th-19th century vessels...
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    Rum ration (category Royal Navy traditions)
    stick to the side of the glass and make the tot even stronger. Prior to 1655, a sailor's ration of alcoholic beverage was originally beer with a daily...
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    The Battle of Texel, painted 1687 The burning of the Royal James at the Battle of Solebay HMS St Andrew at sea in a moderate breeze, painted c. 1673...
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  • Declaration of Breda (category Charles II of England)
    entertained, and departed for England on 2 June from Scheveningen on HMS Royal Charles, the former Naseby which was renamed on arrival at the Dutch coast...
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    Oliver Cromwell (category Regicides of Charles I)
    Rather than opposing Parliament's bill, Cromwell dissolved them on 22 January 1655. The First Protectorate Parliament had a property franchise of £200 per annum...
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    Woolwich Dockyard (category History of the Royal Borough of Greenwich)
    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...
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    Historic Sites). Cochrane sent a company of Royal Marines commanded by Edward Nicolls, the vessels HMS Hermes and HMS Carron and further supplies to meet the...
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    HMS Charles was a 96-gun first-rate ship of the line of the Royal Navy, built by Christopher Pett at Deptford Dockyard until his death in March 1668,...
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  • England. The shortfall was made up through forced transfers from HMS Hyaena, the Royal Navy escort ship that accompanied the Fleet for the first three...
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  • Colony authorizes John Hull and Robert Sanderson to issue colonial coinage. 1655 – Dutch take control of New Sweden. The Peach Tree War between Dutch settlers...
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    Athenien was of sufficient standard to be incorporated into the Royal Navy, becoming HMS Athenienne. The other ships were broken up in their berths. The...
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    1 (1652-1655) (in Dutch). Utrecht: Kemink & Zoon. pp. 57–72. Leibbrandt, H (1897). Riebeeck's Journal, Part 1 (December 1651 - December 1655). Cape Town:...
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