Edmund Chapman (d.1653)

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Edmund Chapman

NationalityBritish
RolesNaval Sailor
First Known Service1652CSORN
Last Known Service31.7.1653CSORN
Date of Death30.7.1653 - Battle of ScheveningenW015

Event History

Date from	Date to	Event	Source
1652		Recovery (24) 1652-1653 British 24 Gun Hired Ship , Captain, and Commanding Officer	BWAS-1603
2.1652	12.1652	Happy Entrance (34) 1619-1658 British 34 Gun 3rd Rate Middling Ship , Captain, and Commanding Officer	BWAS-1603
19.5.1652		Battle of Dover
30.11.1652		Battle of Dungeness
12.1652		Was one of four captains disciplined for not fighting hard enough after the Battle of Dungeness	TRN2
1653	31.7.1653	Golden Cock (36) 1653-1656 British 36 Gun 4th Rate Ship , Captain, and Commanding Officer	BWAS-1603
31.7.1653		Battle of Scheveningen
3.11.1797		Launched Buffalo (12) 1797-1817 British 12 Gun Unrated Storeship , Storeship at Deptford Dockyard - Deptford
1807		Launched Caledonia (3) 1807-1812 British 3 Gun Unrated Sloop , Sloop at Amherstberg - Lake Erie - Ontario	B068

Notes on Officer

From: "House of Commons Journal Volume 7: 28 October 1653"W015
To the Widow of Captain Edmond Chapman, late Commander of the Cock, the Sum of Three hundred Pounds.

Sources

IDNameAuthorType

B068Robert Malcomson, Book

BWAS-1603Rif Winfield, Book

CSORNDavid Bonner-Smith, Robert L. DiNardo, David Syrett, Web Site

TRN2William Laird Clowes, Digital Book

W015Various, Web Site

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