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HMS Breda (1679)

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was commissioned on 26 July 1679 under the command of Captain John Moore, who died on 17 November of that year, so that she could be moved to Chatham Dockyard. She was recommissioned by 30 May 1689, when she was commanded by Captain Christopher Mason. In 1690 she was commanded by Captain
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and had a draught of 18 ft (5.5 m). She carried 70 guns with 13 gunports on the sides of each deck and had a crew of 460 men, reduced from a planned 470. According to the 1685 gun establishment, on her lower gun deck,
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with a full complement of 400 aboard, including troops and 160 Jacobite prisoners, captured after the Siege of Cork, when a gunpowder explosion occurred on 12 October 1690. She took fire and blew up. Jacobite prisoner
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History of the Irish Brigades in the Service of France, from the revolution in Great Britain and Ireland under James II, to the revolution in France under Louis XVI
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was one of the new third rate ships of the line ordered on 9 July 1678 under the 1677 naval programme, known as the Thirty Ships Programme, which was requested by
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in response to the Dutch and French navies surpassing England in the total number of ships of the line despite the English victory in the
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was launched on 26 September 1679, part of the second batch of eight third rates of the 1677 programme.
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British Warships in the Age of Sail 1603-1714: Design, Construction, Careers and Fates
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Built under the supervision of naval architect Master Shipwright Isaac Betts at
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was destroyed by an accidental fire later that year after participating in the
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and the blue squadron (rear) were opposed to d'Estrees' French rear
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She had a length of 151 ft 3 in (46.1 m) at her
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Index

HMS Breda
Royal Navy Ensign
England
third rate
ship of the line
long tons
Full-rigged ship
third rate
ship of the line
English
Royal Navy
Harwich
Battle of Beachy Head
Siege of Cork
Samuel Pepys
Third Anglo-Dutch War
gundeck
tons burthen
demi-cannon
culverin
twelve-pounder
sakers
forecastle
quarterdeck
Harwich Dockyard

Matthew Tennant
Battle of Beachy Head
Nine Years' War
Siege of Cork

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