DateEventSource 31.7.1650Action off Harwich in 1650 with a greatly superior force. This was of six Royalist FrigatesTRN2 12.2.1650/51Contract from Rob. Wyard "for hire of the Adventure, 257 tons, 24 guns, for six or eight months, at 300l. a month"SPD-1651 5.1651Included in a "A List of such Ships as have been taken up, and employed for Convoys, by the Committee of the Navy"W015
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From the public records of Scotland in the laigh parliament house at Edinburgh.W015 From: 'State Papers, 1644: January-March', A collection of the State Papers of John Thurloe, volume 1: 1638-1653 (1742) My lords and gentlemen, Wee have thought it necessary to give yow notice, that there is sent unto yow by the good ship called the Adventure of London, whereof Robert Wyard is master, cloaths and provisions for the Scottish army in Ireland, whereof the particulars are sent here inclosed. She is to be unladen in six dayes; otherwise he must have three pounds per diem demureage for so long as he shall stay. Derby house the 25th of March, 1644.