HMS Jersey of 1698 was built by Moore & Nye at East Cowes, Isle of Wight. She was a 48-gun fourth-rate line of battleship launched on 6th August 1698. The Jersey was eighteen months behind schedule, and six months earlier Joseph Nye had absconded leaving large debts. HMS Jersey went on to spend ...

Sorry, John, but you have described the wrong ship!
The HMS Suffolk depicted on this cinderella stamp was the "Monmouth" class cruiser launched at Pembroke Dockyard in 1904 and sold in 1920.

Was Bounty’s launch built by John Samuel White of Cowes, Isle of Wight? This is a legend that I have often seen repeated. John Samuel White lived from 1838 to 1915 (the mutiny occurred in 1789) and his family didn’t move their shipbuilding activities to Cowes until the early years of the nineteenth ...