Wakefield

Description

Re-named to the Richmond on 23 May 1660.

Last updated by Phil Gyford on 8 September 2011

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• - Terry Foreman on Thu 8 Sep 2011, 10:42pm. Flag this

  HMS Wakefield
  22-6 guns; built Portsmouth 1655; subsequently renamed Richmond http://www.pepysdiary.com/p/12849.php 1660; considered a yacht taken into King’s service 1668; converted to fireship 1688; sold 1698.
  (L&M Index and http://www.hmforces.co.uk/education/articles/1404-hms-richmond—-frigate-type-23 )

References in the diary

1660

May: 23