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The naval Battle of Portland, or Three Days' Battle, took place during 18–20 February 1653 (28 February – 2 March 1653 (Gregorian calendar)), [a] during the First Anglo-Dutch War, when the fleet of the Commonwealth of England under General at Sea Robert Blake was attacked by a fleet of the Dutch Republic under Lieutenant-Admiral Maarten Tromp escorting merchant shipping through the English ...
This battle is sometimes recorded as the 'Battle of Goodwin Sands'. [12] Later in 1652 she was under the command of Captain Robert Wyard in the North Sea. She was under the command of Captain Robert Nixon at the Battle of Portland. At the Battle off Portland she was a member of Robert Blake's Fleet of eighty-four ships from 18 to 20 February 1653.
Portland was a 40-gun fourth-rate frigate of the English Royal Navy, originally built for the navy of the Commonwealth of England at Wapping, and launched in 1653. By 1677 her armament had been increased to 48 guns. [1] She took part in the Battle of Bantry Bay in 1689, when her Irish-born captain George Aylmer was killed in action.
She followed that with the Battle of Portland on 18 February 1653. [11] As a member of Red Squadron, Rear Division she took part in the Battle of the Gabbard on 2–3 June 1653. [ 12 ] On 31 July 1653 she participated in the Battle of Scheveningen off Texel as a member Red Squadron, Rear Division. [ 13 ]
In 1653 she was under Captain John Day for the Battle of Portland on 18 February 1653. [8] Later in 1653 she came under Captain Jeremy Smith for the Battle of the Gabbard where she was a member of Red Squadron, Center Division on 2–3 June 1653. [9] At the Battle of Scheveningen on 31 July 1653 she was a member on Red Squadron, Center Division ...
In the First Anglo-Dutch War (1652–1654), he served in the navy of the Commonwealth of England, commanding squadrons at the battles of the Kentish Knock (1652), Portland, the Gabbard and Scheveningen (1653). In this last battle, a sniper from his ship killed Dutch admiral and fleet commander Maarten Tromp on the Dutch flagship Brederode.
In 1653 she was under the command of Captain Richard Stayner. She was at the Battle of Portland on 18 February 1653. She was a member of White Squadron, Center Division at the Battle of the Gabbard on 2/3 June 1653. This was followed by the Battle of Scheveningen off Texel on 31 July 1653. She spent the winter of 1653/54 in the English Channel.
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