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Honour - Gabbard 1653 |
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The battle took place near the Gabbard Sands, off Orfordness, Suffolk. An English Fleet of about 115 ships under command of Generals-at-Sea, George Monck and Richard Dean, engaged a Dutch Fleet of 104 ships under command of Admiral Marten Tromp. The two fleets sighted each other at dawn 02-June-1653 and battle began at 11:00 hrs. Richard Dean was killed by the first Dutch broadside. During the day 3 or 4 Dutch ships were lost. Next day General-at-Sea Blake arrived with another 18 ships and the Dutch were routed. They withdrew to the Flanders shallows where the larger English ships could not follow. The Dutch lost 11 ships captured, 6 sunk and 3 blown up. The English lost no ships.
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| HM Ships | ||||
| Adventure | Advice | Andrew | Arms of Holland | Amity |
| Ann and Joyce | Anne Piercey | Assistance | Assurance | Bear |
| Benjamin | Blossom | Brazil | Centurion | Convert |
| Convertine | Crescent | Crown (Taunton) | Culpeper | Diamond |
| Dolphin | Dragon | Dragoneare | Duchess | Eagle |
| Eastland Merchant | Employment | Essex | Exchange | Expedition |
| Fair Sisters | Falcon | Falmouth | Foresight | Fortune |
| Fox | George | Gift | Gilli Flower | Globe |
| Golden Fleece | Guinea | Hamburg Merchant | Hampshire | Hannibal |
| Happy Entrance | Heart's Ease | Hopeful Luke | Hound | Hunter |
| Industry | James | John and Abigail | Jonathan | Kentish |
| King Ferdinando | Laurel | Lion | Lisbon Merchant | London |
| Loyalty | Malaga Merchant | Marmaduke | Martin | Mary |
| Merlin | Mermaid | Middlesborough | Nicodemus | Nonsuch |
| Oak | Paul | Pearl | Pelican | Peter |
| Phoenix | Portsmouth | President | Princess Maria | Prosperous |
| Providence | Prudent Mary | Rainbow | Raven | Reformation |
| Renown | Resolution | Richard and Maria | Roebuck | Ruby |
| Samaritan | Samuel Talbot | Sapphire | Sarah | Society |
| Sophia | Speaker | Stork | Success | Sussex |
| Swan | Tenth Whelp | Thomas and Lucy | Thomas and William | Tiger |
| Triumph | Tulip | Vanguard | Victory | Violet |
| Waterhound | Welcome | William | William and John | Worcester |
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This page last edited -
24 March, 2013.
Copyright © Ian M King, except where otherwise indicated. |
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