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The Four Days' Battle [a] was a naval engagement fought from 11 to 14 June 1666 (1–4 June O.S.) during the Second Anglo-Dutch War. It began off the Flemish coast and ended near the English coast, and remains one of the longest naval battles in history. The Royal Navy suffered significant damage, losing around twenty ships in total.
The Four Days' Battle, 1–4 June 1666, by Abraham Storck: Date: 4 March 1665 – 31 July 1667 ... and by the end of 1666 the war had reached stalemate.
English: The Four Days Fight, 1-4 June 1666 An incident during the second year of the Second Dutch War, 1665-67. It was fought in the southern North Sea between an English fleet of fifty-six ships under the command of the Duke of Albermarle and a larger Dutch fleet commanded by Lieutenant-Admiral Michiel de Ruyter.
In 1666 her armament was 52 (wartime)/44 (peacetime) and consisted of twenty-four culverins, [4] [Note 1] twenty 8-pounder guns, [5] [Note 2] eight sakers. [6] Note 3 ] Her manning was 180 personnel in March 1652 and rose to 210 personnel by the end of 1653 (becoming a Third Rate briefly) and was established as 190/140/110 personnel.
In the second year of the war, 1666, De Ruyter won the hard-fought Four Days' Battle of 1 to 4 June 1666. The division of the English fleet gave the Dutch the advantage of numbers on the first and second days of fighting.
Johan Evertsen (1 February 1600 – 5 August 1666) was a Dutch admiral who was born in the 17th century. ... At the outbreak of the First Anglo-Dutch War, ...
During the Second Dutch War she participated in the Battle of Lowestoft in 1665 and the Four Days' Battle and the St James' Day Battle (Orfordness) in 1666. She was re-classed as a 32-gun ship in 1666, but then again re-rated and converted to a fireship in June 1667, but was wrecked at Tangier on 31 October 1667.
She arrived with Prince Rupert's Squadron at the Four Days' Battle on 4 June 1666 as a member of the Rear Division. She suffered two killed and 2 wounded. [16] She was at the St James Day Battle as a member of Blue Squadron, Center Division on 25 July 1666. [17] On 28 July 1666 she was under Captain Stephen Pyend until 6 November 1667. [18]