By Angus Konstam
In the course of the seventeenth century England and Holland came upon themselves at struggle 3 times, in a conflict for fiscal and naval supremacy, fought out within the chilly waters of the North Sea and the English Channel. the 1st Anglo-Dutch warfare (1652-54) pitted the Dutch opposed to Oliver Cromwell's Commonwealth military, which proved as winning at sea as his New version military were on land. Following the recovery of 1660 the 2 maritime powers clashed back, and within the moment Dutch struggle (1665-67) it was once the Dutch who had the higher hand. They humiliated the English via burning their fleet within the Medway (1667), forcing Charles II to sue for peace. This peace proved transitority, and the 3rd Dutch struggle (1672-74) proved a well-balanced and bitterly-fought naval contest. The Royal army ultimately emerged successful, developing a convention of naval dominance that will final for 2 centuries. This used to be a innovative period in different key parts - warship layout, armament and in naval strategies. In influence the ships and fleets that begun the clash in 1652 have been by-products of an prior age - warships designed to struggle chivalrous duels with their enemy opposite numbers. by means of the shut of the 3rd Dutch warfare those warships had advanced into fully-fledged ships-of-the-line - the warships that may dominate the age of battling sail until eventually the appearance of steam. This e-book lines the advance of those warships in this severe evolutionary interval in naval heritage, and indicates that whereas each side advanced their very own doctrines of warship layout and armament, it was once the English concept who created a battle-winning army of boating ships-of-war.
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George 1701. Broken up 1774 Edgar Post-war 994 72–74 Burned 1711 St. Michael 1669 Post-war 1,101 90–96 Renamed Marlborough 1706. Foundered 1762 Prince 1670 Post-war 1,403 100 Renamed Royal William 1692. Broken up 1813 London Post-war 1,328 96 Broken up 1747 St. Andrew Post-war 1,338 96 Renamed Royal Anne 1703. Broken up 1727 Royal James 1671 - 1,416 100 Lost in action 1672 Royal Charles 1673 Post-war 1,443 100 Renamed Queen 1693, Royal George 1715, Royal Anne 1756. Broken up 1767. Later Restoration additions Name Date Built Rebuilt Tonnage Guns Fate Swiftsure 1673 Post-war 978 70 Renamed Revenge 1716.
F desire to emphasize firepower rather than the ability to manoeuvre. These seventeenth-century English warships were capable of firing a far larger size of broadside compared to similarly sized warships of the eighteenth century, which underlines the point about this being a deliberate policy of the period. After the three wars ended the balance between manoeuvrability and firepower swung the other way. This English policy had its drawbacks. For a start it meant that English ships were slower and less agile than their Dutch counterparts.
Just as importantly, they also enjoyed superiority in term of gun size, and so even if two rival ships carried the same amount of ordnance, the English vessel tended to fire a heavier broadside than her Dutch counterpart. This difference in firepower was the result of the weight limitations imposed on Dutch ships by their shallow coastal waters, and by the consistent English An English iron ‘culverin drake’, or short ‘culverin’ or 18pounder, bearing the coat of arms of the English Commonwealth on its barrel.