English Captain: James Cadman

James Cadman served in both the Commonwealth and Restoration navies. From 1651 to 1652, he commanded the Eagle shallop (6 guns). From 1652 to 1653, he commanded the 5th Rate Pearl. He fought at the Battle of the Kentish Knock in the Pearl (22 guns). At the Battle of the Gabbard, the Pearl carried 26 guns. She was damaged enought that she was at Dover, under repair, at the time of the Battle of Scheveningen. In 1664, James Cadman was appointed captain of the hired merchantman Hamburgh Merchant (a veteran of the First and Second Wars). He was in Sir George Ayscue's division at the Battle of Lowestoft. He also took part in the attack on the Dutch East Indiamen at Bergen on 2 August 1665. He was shot and killed while on board the Revenge temporarily, presumably because of his experience in Norwegian waters. 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. Frank Fox, A Distant Storm: the Four Days' Battle of 1666, 1996.
4. J.R. Tanner, A Descriptive Catalogue of the Naval Manuscripts in the Pepysian Library at Magdalene College, Cambridge, Vol.I, 1903.