Adam Hayes
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Adam Hayes was an English shipwright who worked for the Royal Navy. A great number of his models survive. He was responsible for the selection of the ship the Earl of Pembroke and was the wright who c
The launch of HMS Cambridge (left) at Deptford Dockyard in 1755
Model of HMS Enterprise by Hayes
Model of HMS Egremont at National Maritime Museum by Hayes
HMS Kent (1746)
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HMS Kent was a 64-gun third rate ship of the line of the Royal Navy. She was ordered from Deptford Dockyard on 10 May 1743 and was built by Joseph Allin the younger to the 1741 proposals of the 1719 E
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…Hayes transferred to work on HMS Kent: it is unclear if this was to break the old HMS Kent at Chatham (the ship was over 60 years old) or to build the new HMS Kent at Deptford, but it appears to have been a dock-based employment either way. The latter is more likely, and appears to have led both to recognition of…
Kent (centre) at the Battle of Chandannagar
A British-Portuguese-Indian naval force attacks the fort of Geriah, 1756