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Monday, September 06, 2004

What we know about John Berry's ships at the Battle of Nevis

What we know about John Berry's ships comes from Frank Fox's two-part article in the Mariner's Mirror in 1998, and from R.C. Anderson's Lists of Men-of-War 1650-1700 Part I English Ships 1649-1702, Second Edition. It may be that Frank Fox omits some of what Anderson wrote earlier, because he couldn't comfirm the data. For example, Anderson gives the armament for Berry's flagship, the Coronation, as 50 guns, but Frank omits that from his list.
  • Coronation, 50 guns; built 1661; LK=93ft-8in; B=30ft-7in; 466 tons; 22 gun ports on gun deck
  • John & Thomas, 44 guns; built 1664; LK=102ft-0in; B=29ft-4in; 467 tons; 22 gun ports on gun deck
  • Constant Katherine, 40 guns; built 1664; LK=85ft-0in; B=27ft-4in; 338 tons; 20 gun ports on gun deck
  • William (nothing more known)
  • Pearl, 32 guns; 260 tons
  • Companion (nothing more known)
  • St. Peter (nothing more known)
  • Castle Frigate, 36 guns; buiilt 1656; LK=85ft-0in; B=27ft-0in; 330 tons; 20 gun ports on the gun deck (apparently, this ship should be included)
  • William, fireship (nothing more known, except she was small)
  • Norwich, 5th Rate, 28 guns; built at Chatham in 1655; LK=80ft; B=25ft; 265 tons

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