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Newsletter – ISSUE 33 – March 2025

Newsletter – ISSUE 33 – March 2025

  King Charles I requested a new First Rate in June 1634. Admiral Sir John Penington supported the project, and her keel was laid down on 21st December 1635. Construction at Woolwich Dockyard was supervised by Peter Pett, guided by his father Phineas, and she was...