HMS Mary (1650)

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For other ships with the same name, see HMS Speaker and HMS Mary.

Speaker was a 50-gun third rate frigate and the name ship of the Speaker-class, built for the navy of the Commonwealth of England by Christopher Pett at Woolwich and launched in 1650.[1] At the Restoration she was renamed HMS Mary.[1] By 1677 her armament had been increased to 62 guns.[1]

In 1688 Mary was rebuilt by Thomas Shish at Woolwich Dockyard as a 62-gun third rate ship of the line.[2] Mary was wrecked on the Goodwin Sands in the Great Storm of 1703.[2]

Notes

  1. ^ a b c d Lavery, Ships of the Line vol.1, p159.
  2. ^ a b c Lavery, Ships of the Line vol.1, p163.

References

  • Lavery, Brian (2003) The Ship of the Line - Volume 1: The development of the battlefleet 1650-1850. Conway Maritime Press. ISBN 0-85177-252-8.
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