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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 ...
In early 1653 she came under the command of Captain Samuel Howett. She was at the Battle of Portland on 18 February 1653 as the Flagship of Rear-Admiral Howett in Red Squadron. [9] After the battle Captain John Stoakes took command. She remained in Red Squadron, Van Division for the Battle of the Gabbard on 2–3 June 1653. [10]
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 ...
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.
In 1653 she was under the command of Captain Anthony Joyne was her commander. She partook in the Battle of Portland on 18 February 1653. [11] As a member of Blue Squadron, Rear Division she took part in the Battle of the Gabbard on 2–3 June 1653. [12] After being lengthened, she spent the winter 1653/54 at Harwich under the command of John ...
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She was part of Robert Blake's Fleet at the Battle of Portland between 18 and 20 February 1653. [11] She was a member of Red Squadron, Van Division that engaged the Dutch at the Battle of the Gabbard on 2–3 June 1653. [12] On 31 July 1653 the fleets engaged again at the Battle of Scheveningen near Texel.
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.