Daily entries from the 17th century London diary
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The London was no 2 ship [64 guns]in the Fleet to pick up the King, used by Vice Admiral Lawson John, it
had a better State room.
Built in 1656, accidently blown up in 1665. weight 1104 tons.
gleaned from Google and
http://anglo-dutch-wars.blogspot.com/2005/03/squadron-that-brought-charles-ii-back.html
The London.
1663: Sir George Smith of EICo instrumental in interest in tea import to London, with Henry Page at Bantam consigning tea to Smith in ship London by 1663. (See Sir Percival Griffiths, The History of the Indian Tea Industry. London, Weidenfeld and Nicolson, 1967., p. 17)
The London.
Sandwich had gone to sea in July 1664 in the flagship London, which called back and assigned to Lawson as his flagship for the fleet to be set out in the spring of 1665. Sandwich went to the Revenge.
(see letter from DOY to Sandwich posted by Terry)
http://www.pepysdiary.com/archive/1665/02/11/index.php#preview-comment