Naseby (1655)

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Jeronymus van Diest (II) - Het opbrengen van het Engelse admiraalschip de 'Royal Charles'.jpg
The Royal Charles , shown here after the conquest by the Dutch in the Medway, 1667
(painting by Jeronymus van Diest the Younger )
career Flag of Great Britain (1707–1800) .svg
Commissioned: 1653
Laid on the keel: 1653
Launch: 1655
Commissioning: 1655
Decommissioning: 1673
Fate: Captured by the Dutch in 1667
General data
Displacement: 1230 t
Length in the keel: 39.9 m
Width: 12.98 m
Draft: 5.48 m
Drive: sail
Crew: 600 men crew
Armament: 80 cannons
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The Naseby was an English war and flagship built in 1655 with an eventful past. It was considered the prototype of the warship for the next 150 years.

history

The warship Naseby , equipped with 80 guns, was built by Peter Pett and was launched in Woolwich in 1655. It was originally named in honor of Oliver Cromwell's decisive battle of 1645 over the royalists during the English Civil War . After the Restoration , she was renamed Royal Charles and was the ship that brought King Charles II back to England in 1660. The voyage was then captained by Sir Edward Montagu .

At 1,230 tons, the Naseby was larger than the Sovereign of the Seas , the three-deck ship of the line that was built by Phineas Pett - Peter Pett's father. Unlike the Sovereign of the Seas , the Naseby was only in service for twelve years.

As Royal Charles she took part in the second Anglo-Dutch War . In 1665 she fought under the command of Lord High Admiral James Stuart, Duke of York in the naval battle at Lowestoft . Their captain was Sir William Penn . It was probably she who sank the Dutch flagship Eendracht during this battle . 1666 participated in the Four Day Battle and the Battle of St. James ' Day .

In 1667 the English national pride was badly damaged in the attack in the Medway , when the Dutch fleet invaded the Thames and the Medway , captured the Royal Charles and with great skill they were carried off to Hellevoetsluis in the Netherlands. The Dutch did not put it into their service because it was too deep to be used generally on the Dutch coast. It served as a tourist attraction until it was discontinued due to protests by Charles II. In 1673 it was auctioned for cannibalization.

Its wooden rear section, which shows the royal coat of arms consisting of a lion and a unicorn with a white flag, is exhibited in the Rijksmuseum in Amsterdam .

A model is kept in the Sjöhistoriska museet in Stockholm which is considered to be a contemporary model of the Naseby . Presumably it was taken by Francis Sheldon, an English shipbuilder, as a present when he moved to Sweden or made especially for it.

In 1673 a new Royal Charles was launched. There were also other ships called Royal Charles, such as a 56-gun ship that was captured by the Dutch off Calais in 1666 .

Illustrations

  • Painting Dutch attack on the Medway , June 1667

  • The Royal Charles after an engraving in Harpers Magazine from 1872

  • Part of the transom in the Rijksmuseum Amsterdam

literature

  • Anderson, Roger Charles; Society for Nautical Research, "Mariner's Mirror" , London, 1937, pp. 36ff.
  • Frank Fox: Great Ships. The Battlefleet of King Charles II. , Greenwich, 1980. ISBN 0-85177-166-1 .
  • Brian Lavery: "The Ship of the Line", Vol I., Greenwich, 1983. ISBN 0-85177-252-8 .

Web links

  1. ↑ Coat of arms from the transom on the homepage of the Rijksmuseum Amsterdam (nl)
  2. ↑ English model, mid-17th century, probably the Naseby (sv) ( Memento from March 8, 2016 in the Internet Archive )
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