English Captain: James Locke

James Locke (or Lock) served in the Commonwealth navy. He commanded the Constant Anne ketch in 1652. He seems to have disappeared after that, until the Restoration. Anderson did not acknowledge him as having served in the Restoration navy, but he seems to have made a brief reappearance in 1665. Pepys showed James Locke as being appointed to command the Roe ketch in 1665. Frank Fox shows that James Locke fought at the Battle of Lowestoft in the Roe ketch (8 guns and a crew of 55 men). He was attached to the Duke of York's squadron. 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.