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Naseby was an 80-gun
First Rate three-decker
ship of the line of the
English Navy, built by
Peter Pett and launched at
Woolwich dockyard in 1655, originally built for the navy of the
Commonwealth of England,
and named in honour of
Oliver Cromwell's decisive 1645 victory over the Royalist forces during the
English Civil Wars. She was ordered in 1654 as one of a programme of four
Second Rates, intended to carry 60 guns each. However, she was altered during construction to mount a complete battery of guns along the upper deck (compared with the partial battery on this deck of her intended sisters, on which there were no gunports in the waist along this deck), and so was reclassed as a First Rate.
With
the Restoration of the monarchy in June 1660 she was renamed
HMS Royal Charles, and served as the ship that brought King
Charles II back to England in 1660, captained by Sir
Edward Montagu, and also carrying
Samuel Pepys. Under her new name, she thus joined the
Royal Navy which formally came into being in 1660.
At 1,258 tons,
Naseby was larger than, the first three-deck ship of the line, built by
Phineas Pett, Peter's father. Unlike
Sovereign of the Seas,
Naseby was to enjoy only twelve years in service.
As
Royal Charles she took part in the
Second Anglo-Dutch War. In 1665 she fought in the
Battle of Lowestoft under the command of the Lord High Admiral,
James Stuart, Duke of York, her captain being
Sir William Penn. During that battle she probably destroyed the Dutch flagship
Eendracht. In 1666 she participated in two further actions, the
Four Days Battle and the defeat of Admiral
Michiel de Ruyter in the
St. James's Day Battle off the
North Foreland.
In 1667, flagging English national esteem was further depressed by the
raid on the Medway in which a Dutch fleet invaded the
Thames and
Medway rivers and captured
Royal Charles,
removing her with great skill to
Hellevoetsluis in the
United Provinces. The Dutch didn't take her into naval service because it was considered that she drew too much water for general use on the Dutch coast. She was auctioned for scrap in 1673.
Her metal stern piece, showing the English coat of arms with a
lion and
unicorn (see
lion and unicorn) along with the white ensign, is now on display in the
Rijksmuseum in
Amsterdam.
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