HMS Suffolk (1680)
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HMS Suffolk was a 70-gun third-rate ship of the line of the Royal Navy, built by contract of 20 February 1678 by Sir Henry Johnson at Blackwall. She participated in the War of the English Succession 1
Drawing of the launching of the ship by Van de Velde the Elder, 1680.
Admiral Peregrine Osborne, 2nd Duke of Leeds, styled Viscount Osborne between 1673 and 1689, Earl of Danby between 1689 and 1694 and Marquess of Carmarthen between 1694 and 1712, was an English Tory p
HMS Suffolk (1680)
…in 1690. Suffolk fought in the Battle of Beachy Head in the centre (red) squadron on 30 June. On 2 January 1691 she came under the command of Captain Peregrine Osbourne, Earl of Danby, followed by Captain Christopher Billop. She fought in the Battle of Barfleur in the rear (blue) squadron of the rear division between 19 and 22 May…
The Duke of Leeds. Stipple engraving after Jean Petitot, c.1710
Ancestral arms of the Osborne family, Dukes of Leeds