JERSEY HHS 1654

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JERSEY HHS 1654

Post by aukepalmhof » Fri Jun 08, 2012 8:49 pm

Built as a 4th Rate frigate by Mr. Starling’s Shipyard in Maldon, for account of the British Navy.
1654 Launched as JERSEY.
Tonnage 560 tons, dim. length of keel 101 ft, beam 32.2ft, depth 13.3ft, draught 15.6 ft.
Armament 48 guns when built, comprising 22 culverins, 20 demi-culverins and 8 sakers.
Crew 190 in 1666, later 230/200/150.
1654 commissioned under command of Captain James Terry.

During the 17th century in the time of Oliver Cromwell when England was a Republic, the first ship to be named JERSEY was contracted. She was built in difference to the passage in the Domesday Book which stated that “Maldon’s duty was to provide a defense vessel.” The question of the ship being built at all was a direct result of the local shipwrights petition to perform their “duty.” Perhaps the prospect of failing to fulfil the directions of the Domesday Book invoked a feeling of terror in the good people of that century.

She was named HHS JERSEY (His Highness Ship) to commemorate the Parliamentarian “taking” of the Island of Jersey in 1651. Later, King Charles II allowed the ship to retain her name (although many ships names were changed after the Restoration) because of the agreeable treatment he had received while on the Island.
During her 37 years in the Navy, she took part in many exciting expeditions, and at one time she was briefly captained by the famous diarist and Secretary of the Navy Samuel Pepys in 1669 as a legal maneuver to make him eligible to sit on a court-martial.
20 April 1657 took part in the Battle of Santa Cruz (de Tenerife, Canary Islands.)
From 1658 till 1659 stationed in the Mediterranean.
03 June 1665 took part in the Battle of Lowestoft (second Anglo-Dutch war).
01/04 Took part in the Four Day’s Battle, with the loss of 7 men and 9 wounded.
24 July 1666 was she dismasted in bad weather.
Thereafter in service in the Mediterranean.
20 March 1678 under command of Captain John Temple she sailed for Jamaica.
1868 Was she guard ship in Portsmouth.
18 December 1691 was she captured by two French warships off Guadeloupe.
10 May 1694 destroyed in Bertheaume Bay (near Brest, France) by HMS MONMOUTH, RESOLUTION and fireship ROEBUCK.

Jersey 2001 23p sg?, scott?

Source: Watercraft Philately 2001/71. British Warships in the Age of Sail 1603-1714 by Rif Winfield.
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