The CONSTANT WARWICK

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• Peter Pett is buried in St Nicholas Church, Deptford, and his memorial states: “He invented that excellent and new ornament of our navy, we call a frigate; formidable to our enemies, to us most useful and safe; he was the Noah of his age by this invention like the Ark having almost snatched our dominion of the Seas and our rights from shipwreck.”
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• Newcastle The Ratcliffe shipyard was continued by his son, later Sir Phineas Pett, Naval Commissioner, theTredagh being built there in 1653 and 1654 respectively
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• His son, Captain Robert Moulton, junior, married Peter Pett's daughter, Elizabeth
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• 1625 . Constant Warwick The mayors and burgesses of the South-western ports, Exeter, Dartmouth, Plymouth, Barnstaple, etc., petitioned the Privy Council in August for warships to guard the coasts. The petition stated that the Sallee pirates infested those coasts, capturing ships, making slaves of their crews, and demanding ransoms of £50, £60 and even £200 per man. These pirates numbered between 20 and 25 vessels and cruised between Ushant and the Scilly Isles. On August 8th, 1680, the log of the records the chase of two Turkish pirates 9 leagues from the Lizard
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• On March 27th, 1626, it is recorded the price of coal in London was 33s. per cauldron as compared with 12s. the previous year. This increase was caused by the activities of the Dunkirkers on the East Coast. On May 5th, 1627, the Naval Commission recommended an additional tax of sixpence a cauldron on all Newcastle coal, the proceeds of the tax to pay for the employment of six warships guarding the coast between the Thames and Aberdeen. On February 7th, 1628, the King approved of a tax of 2s. per cauldron on all Newcastle and Sunderland coal sold in the kingdom, and 5s. per cauldron on all sold to foreigners, for the same purpose
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• In the same report the Mayor stated that seven Dunkirkers had lain off the coast for a month and had captured or sunk twenty vessels. The crews with the exception of the masters had been put ashore. The men had been offered 20s. a month if they would serve in the pirate vessels
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• 1628 . Lion's Whelp Matthew Graves built the seventh in. She was blown up in September 1630 in a fight with a Dunkirker. Of her crew of 60 only 10 were saved
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• 1628 . Actually Baker's Rule gives the burthen 325 tons. The tonnage rule was at this time under consideration by the Grand Commission, who instructed the Master Shipwrights, Trinity House and others to formulate a rule. Considerable discussion resulted. On May 26th, the Privy Council directed Buckingham to issue a warrant for the measurement of all ships built for the King or employed in his service in accordance with the new rule
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• Swan of Flushing On July 15th, 1636, the Earl of Northumberland reported the had captured two pirates of Calais
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• 1645 . Admiralty Bill Books show the following payments to the owners. For period March 25th, 1645, 10 November 3rd, £3282; November 4th, 1645, to April 20th, 1646, £2088; April 21st, 1646, to November 30th, 1646, £2806; December 4th, 1646, to September 23rd, 1647, £3875; a total of £12,051
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• Batten lived at Walthamstow in Essex, and the charges against him were of assisting the Earl of Norwich at Stamford Bridge and of sending horses to Sir Charles Lucas at Chelmsford
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• The Constant Warwick eaving Dublin on June 29th, should have reached Portsmouth by that date
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• 1648 . M.M. 40 Mr R. C. Anderson has narrowed this period to between July 14th and 18th. See IX, p. The Declared Accounts for 1648 show that Batten was paid up to March 24th, those for 1660–1 that he was paid up to June 24th, 1648. No further payments beyond June 24th can be traced although it was usual to pay up to the date of ceasing duty
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• Constant Reformation, Swallow, Corner tine, Antelope, Satisfaction, Roebuck, Hind, Crescent and Pelican. Two others, Warwick (old) and Greyhound, had surrendered soon after the revolt
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• Hull with masts, yards and rigging, £919; armament, £749. 13s. 3d.; sea stores, sails, cables, anchors, etc., £413.4s. 7d.; total, £2081. 17s. 10d. from which is abated 17s. 10d.
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• M.M. 44 He had returned to England, towards the end of 1648, under an amnesty granted by Warwick in December. See ix
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• Constant Warwick On this occasion the Governor of Barbadoes reported that the Count d'Estree, who was in the vicinity with a French squadron, had mistaken the for a merchantman, “an ordinary error that always attends the Constant Warwick.” Apparently she was also the first Q ship!
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• Middleton was appointed Surveyor of the Navy to succeed Sir William Batten on the latter's death in 1667
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• 4th rate. 48 guns. Built in 1654 by Mr Carey at Woodbridge, Suffolk. Length of keel, 100 ft.; breadth, 31 ft. 8 in.; depth of hold, 13 ft.; tonnage, 555. The orders' for the two vessels to convoy the merchantmen, several victuallers and store ships for Wright's squadron at Jamaica, were issued March 12th, 1691
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• Captain of one of the merchantmen
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