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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 ...
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.
Later in 1652 Captain Warren was replaced by Captain William Vessey. She sailed with Robert Blake's Fleet at the Battle of Portland [2] on 18 February 1653. [8] After the engagement, Captain George Crapnell took command. She participated in the Battle of the Gabbard Sand [3] between 2 and 3 June 1653 as a member of White Squadron, Centre ...
The 1797 battle of Camperdown (Thomas Whitcombe, 1798) During the French Revolutionary and Napoleonic Wars, France reduced the Netherlands to a satellite state and finally annexed the country in 1810. In 1797 the Dutch fleet was defeated by the British in the Battle of Camperdown, but an Anglo-Russian invasion of Holland in 1799 was less ...
14 March – First Anglo–Dutch War: Battle of Leghorn: A Dutch fleet defeats the English in the Mediterranean but the Dutch commander, Johan van Galen, later dies of his wounds. 18 April – London–York stagecoach first recorded. 20 April – Oliver Cromwell dissolves the Rump Parliament.
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She was commissioned into the Parliamentary Navy in 1652 under the command of Captain Anthony Spatchurst. Later in 1652 she was under command of Captain William Tatnell. She partook in the Battle of Dungeness on 30 November 1652 [4] and the Battle of Portland from 18 to 20 February 1653. [5] During the battle Captain Tatnell was killed.
HMS Portland (1653) was a 50-gun fourth rate launched at Wapping in 1653 and burnt to avoid capture in 1692. HMS Portland (1693) was a 48-gun fourth rate launched in 1693, rebuilt in 1723 and broken up in 1743. HMS Portland (1744) was a 50-gun fourth rate launched in 1744 and sold in 1763.