Jersey issued in 2009 a set of stamps to mark the 400 anniversary of the birth of Sir George Carteret in the Jersey Naval Connections III.
Sir George Carteret was born in the same building which is now Jersey’s main Post Office in Broad Street, St Helier.
The nephew of one of Jersey’s leading men, Sir Philippe de Carteret, Seigneur of St Quen, George was able to enter the Navy as a ‘officer servant’ on one of the King’s ships, at which time he dropped the ‘de’ from his name to avoid being taken for a Frenchman. He went on to lead an exciting and eventful life arranging shelter for the exiled Prince Charles until 1649 when, as Baliff of Jersey, he proclaimed Charles II as King after Charles I was executed. Thus, Jersey was the first place in the King’s realm to recognise him as monarch. Carteret was later rewarded for his Royalist loyalty with lands in America, one area of which we know now as New Jersey, named in honour of his birthplace.
The set of six stamps in this series features some of the ships upon which Sir George Carteret served during his colourful naval career.
His first commission, in 1629 was a Lieutenant of HMS GARLAND, a 5th Rate middling ship. This ship patrolled the English Channel in an attempt to keep the waters free from French pirates.
Built as 5th Rate at the Deptford Drydock, Deptford by the shipwright William Burrell for the British Navy.
10 March 1620 ordered.
Launched late 1620 under the name GARLAND.
Tonnage 425/567 tons, later 538 tons (bm). Dim. 29.0 (length of keel) x 9.8 x 4.22m.
Armament: 4 culverins, 12 demi-culverins, 10 sakers and 2 minions, later 30-34 guns and in 1652 40 guns.
Ship rigged.
Crew 200
1623/24 Commissioned under command of Capt. Sir William Best
After commissioned used in the North Sea operating against pirates.
1624/25 The command was taken over by Capt. Sir Richard Bingley.
1626/28 Under command of Capt. Sir Henry Palmer. 1628 Took part in the expedition to La Rochelle, France.
She was under repair at Chatham from 1629 – 1630.
October 1630 command was taken over by Capt. John Mennes, thereafter till 1647 under various commanders, mostly in service in the North Sea and English Channel.
Between 1647 and 1648 she was under command of Capt. Henry Bethell with the Western Guard.
1649 Took part in the blockade of Kinsale.
19 May 1652 took also part in the Battle of Dover under command of Capt. John Gibbs.
28 September 1652 under command of Capt. Richard Batten at the Battle of Kentish Knock.
29 November 1652 at the Battle of Dungeness, between the Dutch Fleet under Admiral Tromp and the British Admiral Blake, in which the Dutch sunk three and captured two British ships under which the GARLAND on 30 November 1652.
Added to the Dutch Navy under the name ROSENKRANS (garland of roses).
31 July 1653 during the Battle of Scheveningen (Known by the Dutch as ‘Slag bij ter Heide’) burnt and lost. During the battle the Dutch Admiral Maarten Tromp was killed.
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Source: Various web-sites British Warships in the Age of sail 1603-1714 by Rif Winfield.
Jersey Post web-site.
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