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| Fleet Commander | Thomas Rainsborough | |
| Fleet Formed | 1647 | |
| Fleet Disbanded | 1648 |
| Date | Event | Source |
|---|---|---|
| 1647/08/24 | Report from the Admiralty Committee, concerning the Winter's Guard By the Committee of Lords and Commons for the Admiralty and Cinque Ports. The Committee did this Day take into Consideration, that the Victualing of the Summer Guard begins to expire, and that it is necessary to have a Resolution taken touching the next Winter's Guard, that the Preparations may be made accordingly: And whereas there were ordered, for the last Winter's Expedition, Forty-one Ships and Vessels, which did bear Two Thousand Nine Hundred Seventy-eight Men: Now, on Consideration of a Report from the Commissioners of the Navy (in Pursuance of a Reference to them made), touching the Ships of the Fleet fittest for the next Winter's Expedition, it is this Day Ordered, That the Ships and Vessels here-under mentioned, bearing in the whole Two Thousand Six Hundred Eighty Men, be presented to the Approbation of both Houses of Parliament, for the making up of the next Winter's Guard |