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  • HMS Foresight was an Elizabeth class 4th Rate Frigate, built by Shish, at Deptford in 1650:Wrecked in 1698. http://www.battleships-cruisers.co.uk/sailship.htm

  • Foresight.

    Sam’s nephew Samuel Jackson would get the yeoman of the Foresight’s powder room to teach him navigation.

    (Gentlemen and Tarpaulins…J.D.Davies)

  • Foresight.

    In April 1665 down as 4th Rate with 170 men and 46 guns, and the Captain Packington Brooks (Tangier).

    During 1661-1662 she was captained by Francis Allen, Cadiz in Dec 61, and May 62 bound for Lisbon with horse for Portugal.

    (info from Journal of Edward Montagu…Anderson)

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1662
Aug: 2, 3