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Anatol
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Royal Charles HMS(1655)

Post by Anatol » Wed Feb 13, 2013 7:23 pm

The stamp 1,50 depicts copy of the painting Jeronymus van Diest (II): Royal Charles off Chatham, captured by the Dutch after the Raid on the Medway, June 1667.
Royal Charles was an 80-gun first-rate three-decker ship of the line of the English Navy. She was originally called the Naseby, built by Peter Pett, and launched at Woolwichdockyard in 1655, for the navy of the Commonwealth of England, and named in honour of Oliver Cromwell's decisive 1645 victory over the Royalist forces during the English Civil Wars. She was ordered in 1654 as one of a programme of four second rates, intended to carry 60 guns each. However, she was altered during construction to mount a complete battery of guns along the upper deck (compared with the partial battery on this deck of her intended sisters, on which there were no gunports in the waist along this deck), and so was reclassed as a first rate.
In the run-up to the Restoration of the monarchy during June 1660 she was anchored in The Downs off Deal, where her laurel-crowned figurehead of Oliver Cromwell was removed before sailing to the Dutch Republic at the head of the fleet sent to bring King Charles II back to England, captained by Sir Edward Montagu and still under her Parliamentary name.

On arrival in Scheveningen she was renamed HMS Royal Charles and took Charles and his entourage (including Samuel Pepys) on board, landing them at Dover. Under her new name, she thus joined the Royal Navy which formally came into being in 1660. At 1,229 tons, Naseby was larger than Sovereign of the Seas, the first three-deck ship of the line, built by Phineas Pett, Peter's father. Unlike Sovereign of the Seas, which was in service from 1637 to 1697, Naseby was to enjoy only twelve years in service. As Royal Charles she took part in the Second Anglo-Dutch War. In 1665 she fought in the Battle of Lowestoft under the command of the Lord High Admiral, James Stuart, Duke of York, her captain being Sir William Penn. During that battle she probably destroyed the Dutch flagship Eendracht. In 1666 she participated in two further actions, the Four Days Battle and the defeat of Admiral Michiel de Ruyter in the St. James's Day Battle off the North Foreland. In 1667, flagging English national morale was further depressed by the raid on the Medway in which a Dutch fleet invaded the Thamesand Medway rivers and on 12 June captured the uncommissioned Royal Charles, removing her with great skill to Hellevoetsluis in theUnited Provinces. The Dutch did not take her into naval service because it was considered that she drew too much water for general use on the Dutch coast. She was auctioned for scrap in 1673. Her metal stern piece, showing the English coat of arms with a lion and unicorn (see lion and unicorn) along with the white ensign, is now on display in the Rijksmuseum in Amsterdam.
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Anatol
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Re: Royal Charles HMS(1655)

Post by Anatol » Thu Feb 01, 2018 8:37 pm

A swift and magnificent vessel, HMS Royal Charles, in all her incarnations, had a service life that spanned well over a century. Modified in 1693, she was renamed the HMS Queen. Later, in 1715, her salvaged parts were used to build the HMS Royal George, a ship that remained in service until her sinking at Spithead anchorage in 1783.
Completed in Portsmouth, England, 1673, during the second Dutch War, HMS Royal Charles was the second built in a trio of 100-gun first-rate ships designed and constructed by Sir Anthony Deane. Structurally almost identical to the first built of the three 100-gun ships (the HMS Royal James), the Royal Charles was nonetheless strikingly different in her outward appearance. The new ship introduced elegant rows of windows and projecting galleries, even a balcony projecting forward from the quarter-gallery. A look likely inspired from the French fleet, it became a trend that would be carried into the design of future ships. The most dramatic change lay in the design of the figurehead. Gone was the standard single-entity sculpture and in its place was an ornately decorated high relief grouping. It depicted a helmeted warrior charging bravely into battle, his chariot drawn by two racing horses. At his side stood the driver and an armed escort. Intricately carved, baroque in detail, it heralded a new age of art in shipbuilding.
Initiated in the early 1990's, Jim's sailboat was reconstructed from a Dutch steel-hulled sailing vessel. James added the bowsprit, aft cabin, additional mast, and massive sculptural ornamentation. The vessel is currently owned by Fred Banke and undergoing a complete rebuild. Follow this link for early photographs of this vessel, as well as his launch Duchess:
The design stamp is made after painting of Jim Flood:”Royal Charles HMS(1655)”.
Burundi 2017;180f. Source: http://www.jamesaflood.com/roycharles.html
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Re: Royal Charles HMS(1673)

Post by aukepalmhof » Fri Feb 02, 2018 9:00 pm

The subject line can give confusion in the second entry it is the HMS ROYAL CHARLES completed in 1673 and not who ended her live in the Netherlands.

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