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1650–1702
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Taylor’s latest work is a documentary history of over 300 English and related vessels, combining ship lists, technical data, and archival narratives of wrecks from 1650–1702, with emphasis on the Royal Navy, East India Company records, and…
This richly detailed volume opens a window onto the age of sail between 1650 and 1702, bringing together more than 300 documented shipwrecks from the waters around Britain and beyond. Drawing on rare archival sources, lost or long-out-of-print calendars of state papers, East India Company records, Pepys’s collections, and early printed pamphlets, James D. Taylor Jr. assembles information that has never before appeared in a single reference.
Taylor’s latest work is a documentary history of over 300 English and related vessels, combining ship lists, technical data, and archival narratives of wrecks from 1650–1702, with emphasis on the Royal Navy, East India Company records, and treasure‑era losses around Britain’s coasts.
Part I presents hard-to-find fleet lists and specifications for Royal Navy and associated vessels at key dates, including 1652, 1660, 1690, and 1700. Readers will find ship names, rates, tonnage, dimensions, crews, and armament for famous warships such as the Sovereign, Royal Prince, Victory, and Constant Warwick, along with merchantmen and East India Company ships.
Part II gathers contemporary narratives, captain’s reports, and published accounts of events at sea—ranging from the Second Anglo-Dutch War to attempts to find a northeast passage. These include the dramatic loss of Captain John Wood’s Speedwell off Nova Zembla in 1676, a ghostly visitation aboard the Hopewell of London, first-hand letters describing actions off Portland, the Downs, and Legorn (Leghorn), and eyewitness reports surrounding the burning and capture of the Royal Prince on the Galloper Sands.
Part III focuses on wrecks year by year, from the Sussex wreck of 1650 through to early eighteenth century losses like the Lambs Hill. Each entry provides what the surviving records allow: location clues, cargo details, date, circumstances of loss, and, where possible, estimates of present-day values. Some cases hint at treasure—Cadiz bullion ships, richly laden Dutch flyboats, and vessels carrying hundreds of thousands of pieces of eight—while others offer leads for maritime historians and archaeologists.</p><p></p><p>Written by a decorated U.S. Navy veteran, this book serves researchers, wreck divers, treasure hunters, genealogists, and anyone curious about naval warfare and commerce in the later seventeenth century. It is both a working reference and a tribute to the thousands of sailors whose ships—and often lives—were lost in these waters.
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