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HBMS Guinea (1649)

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Guinea, 38 Guns

Details

Nationality	British
Previously	Charles
Captured	1649/04/25	B022
Shipyard	Captured	B022
Rate	Fourth Rate
Type	Ship of the Line
Out Service	1667/11/27	B022
Fate	Sold	B022

Dimensions

Source	The 50-Gun Ship
Length of Keel	90' 0"
Breadth	28' 0"
Depth in Hold	11' 4"
Burthen	375

Armament

Date	1653	B022
Gun Deck	34	All Guns
Date	1660	B022
Gun Deck	30	All Guns
Date	1666	B022
Lower Gun Deck	10	British Culverin (18)
Upper Gun Deck	10	British Demi-Culverin
Quarterdeck	18	British Saker

Crew

Date	Men	Notes	Source
1653	150	Establishment	B022
1660/04	150	Establishment	B022

Flag Officers

Date From

Date to

Rank/Position

Name

Source

Commanders

Date From	Date to	Rank	Name	Source
1649	1649/06	Post Captain	Charles Thorowgood	W014
1649/06	1651	Post Captain	Walter Wood	W014
1651	1653/10	Post Captain	Roger Curtis	W014
1653	1654	Post Captain	George Acklam	W014
1656	1657	Post Captain	Giles Shelley	W014
1663	1664	Post Captain	Hugh Hide	W014
1665	1666/08	Post Captain	Joseph Sanders	W014
1666	1666	Post Captain	William Coleman	W014
1672	1672	Post Captain	Thomas Trafford	W014

Officers

Date From	Date To	Rank/Position	Name	Source
1663	1663	Lieutenant	George Colt	W014

Service record

1649/09	Blockading the Royalist fleet at Kinsale	B051
1650/12	The Squadron sailed for the Azures in search of Prince Rupert	B029
1651/01	The squadron was joined by the Fairfax and some "frigates"	B029
1651/03/29	The squadron passed the straits into the Mediterranean	B029
1651/07/25	Arrived in Malta	B029
1651/09	The squadron was in the Straits	B029
1651/10	Near Gibraltar	B029
1652/03/18	Arrived in Falmouth	B029
1652/06	Sent to Virginia	B029
1653/11/30	Sailed from Spithead as part of a squadron under Vice-Admiral Sir William Penn consisting in addition of Swiftsure, Foresight and Pelican	B051
1665/12	At Tangier until March 1666	B029
1666/08	Victualling at Portsmouth	B029

Actions & Battles

Date		Source
1653/06/12	Battle of the Gabbard
1653/08/08	Battle of Scheveningen
1665/08/02	Battle of Bergen
1666/08/04	St James Day Battle

Notes

No Notes Entered

Sources

B022	The 50-Gun Ship	Rif Winfield
W014	Anglo Dutch Wars Blog	Jim Bender
B051	Biographia Navalis - Volume I	John Charnock
B029	The Royal Navy Vol II	William Laid Clowes

Last Updated :2008/07/25 at 21:00:59 by Cy

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