HMS Unity (1665)

For other ships with the same name, see HMS Unity.

HMS Unity was a 42-gun fourth-rate ship of the line of the English Royal Navy, formerly the Dutch warship Eendracht, captured from the Dutch on 22 February 1665 by the English warships Yarmouth, Diamond and Mermaid. She was commissioned on 1665 under Captain Thomas Trafford. In 1667 she became a guard ship at Sheerness, but was recaptured by the Dutch warship Vrede during the Raid on the Medway in June 1667.^[1]

History
England
Name	Unity
Acquired	Captured from the Dutch 1665
Fate	Recaptured by the Dutch 11 June 1667
General characteristics as built
Class and type	42-gun fourth-rate ship of the line
Length	95 ft (29 m) (keel)
Beam	34 ft 6 in (10.52 m)
Depth of hold	9 ft 2 in (2.79 m)
Sail plan	Full-rigged ship
Complement	150 (wartime)
Armament	42 guns of various weights of shot

Unity recaptured by the Breda here, in this picture 'Dutch Ships in the Medway', June 1667 by, Willem Schellinks

Notes

1. Winfield, p. 404

References

Winfield, Rif (2009). British Warships in the Age of Sail 1603–1714: Design, Construction, Careers and Fates. Barnsley, UK: Seaforth Publishing. ISBN 978-1-84832-040-6.