English ship Bridgewater (1654)
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The Bridgewater was a 52-gun third rate Script error: No such module "WPSHIPS utilities". frigate built for the navy of the Commonwealth of England at Deptford Dockyard, and launched in December 1653.[1]
After the Restoration in 1660, the Bridgewater was taken into the new Royal Navy, and her name was changed to HMS Anne, renamed after Anne Hyde, the wife of James, Duke of York. During the Second Anglo-Dutch War, she took part in the Battle of Lowestoft on 3 June 1665, the Four Days' Battle on 1-4 June 1666, and the St James's Day Fight on 25 July 1666. Her reconstruction was carried out during the second Dutch war by Christopher Pett in Woolwich.[2]
During the Third Anglo-Dutch War she took part in the Battle of Solebay on 28 May 1672, the two Battles of Schooneveld on 28 May and 4 June 1673, and the Battle of Texel on 11 August 1673. The ship was accidentally blown up at Sheerness on 2 December 1673.[3]
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- Lavery, Brian (1983) The Ship of the Line – Volume 1: The development of the battlefleet 1650-1850. Conway Maritime Press. Template:ISBN.
- Winfield, Rif (2009) British Warships in the Age of Sail 1603-1714: Design, Construction, Careers and Fates. Seaforth Publishing Template:ISBN.