Daily entries from the 17th century London diary
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HMS Ruby was a 66 gun third rate ship of the line, originally the French ship Rubis. She was captured in 1666, hulked after sustaining storm damage in 1682 and broken up in 1685. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/HMS_Ruby