A LOG FROM THE 1664 FOURTH-RATE GREENWICH, KEPT BY CAPTAIN C...

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A LOG FROM THE 1664 FOURTH-RATE GREENWICH, KEPT BY CAPTAIN CHARLES WAGER, 1696-1699

written over forty sides (twenty sheets) with City of London watermark, the fly inscribed Greenwich / A Journall of ye proceedings of his Majts said Ship kept by me / Cha: Wager, Beginning the 22d: / of April 1696, & Ending the / 1st of February 1699 ~, routine weather reports and sail activity, and convoy duty: 29th May 1696: ...Came to saile with ye Arundell, Anford & 3 More Shipps for New England, the Loyal Mercht: Prince of Orange, & ...91 Saile of Mercht.men for Virginia with me, at noon we where a Breat Jack of ye Baskett. the next day he is dispatched to Plymouth to escort a delayed merchant; records of storm damage to sails and spars; and some intelligence, 7.8.96: ..I sent my boats ashore who brought off the Surgeon... He informs they were taken by Monsieur Renau's Squadron which Consists of 7 Saile who Cruise off the Havana for the Spanish Flota...; a note mentions the ship being refitted in Henry Johnsons Doack att Blackwall between December and March; with a certificate from previous acting Captain T. Buckhill submitting his journal for the Greenwich between March 1695 and May 1696 to the care of her Lieutenant -- 12 x 7¼in. (30.5 x 18.5cm.)

Greenwich was part of the 1664 programme approved by the Naval Committee and was built at Woolwich by Christopher Pett. In action more or less continuously from her commission in 1666 and took part in the attack on Camaret Bay (Brest) in 1694 before her next Captain, Richard Finch assumed command but died on 1st May 1694. Her next recorded Captain is Charles Wager, so the inclusion of the dated certificate with this log confirms that Thomas Buckhill was her acting Captain filling a small gap. Greenwich was rebuilt at Portsmouth in 1699 again as a fourth rate and served until 1724 when she was broken up at Chatham.

Lacks covers, disbound, spotting and some ragged edges