Note 1091 — CHARLES I 1625-1649 PART II—ROYAL AND MERCHANT SHIPPING

Built in 1646 as a privateer, and employed as such by Warwick (half share), Pett, Swanley, and others; bought by the Parliament from 20th Jan. 1649, when she was appraised at £2081 (State Papers, Dom., Interreg., xxiii, 119). The dimensions are from Harl. MSS., 4161. She is popularly said to have been the first frigate built in an English yard, but it will be seen from the above list that four others, of a still more pronounced frigate type, were launched in the same year.