English Captain: John Goulding (or Golding)

John Goulding served the Royalist cause, then in the Commonwealth and Restoration navies. He was serving the Royalist cause in 1648 to 1649. In 1650, he commanded the Royalist ship Black Prince (10 guns). In 1651, he commanded the St. Michael, and deserted to the Commonwealth. The St. Michael had been a Genoese ship, either St. Michael or Archangel Michael. The Royalists captured her in 1651, but she deserted to the Commonwealth, and was renamed Gilliflower (32 guns). He earned Robert Blake's praise for his service in the Commonwealth cause in late 1651. In 1652, he commanded the Hound (36 guns) at the Battle of the Kentish Knock and then the Waterhound (30 guns) at the Battle of Dungeness. In 1653, he sailed as a privateer. He served the Restoration navy as a captain from 1661. He was killed in action on 13 April 1665. In the Restoration list of captains, he is called John Golding. Sources:

1. R. C. Anderson, “English Fleet-Lists in the First Dutch War,” The Mariner's Mirror, Vol.XXIV No.4, October 1938.
2. R. C. Anderson, List of English Naval Captains 1642-1660, 1964.
3. R. C. Anderson, Lists of Men-of-War 1650-1700: Part I English Ships 1649-1702, 1966.
4. J. J. Colledge, Ships of the Royal Navy, 2nd Ed., 1987.
5. J. R. Powell, Ed., The Letters of Robert Blake, 1937.
6. David Syrett, R. L. DiNardo, The Commissioned Sea Officers of the Royal Navy 1660-1815, 1994.