{{short description|Ship of the line of the Royal Navy}} {{Use dmy dates|date=December 2016}} {{Use British English|date=December 2016}} {{Infobox ship |section1={{Infobox ship/image |image=Storck, Four Days Battle.jpg |image_caption=HMS ''Henry'' at the Four Days' Battle in 1666 }}

|section2={{Infobox ship/career |hide_header= |country=Commonwealth of England |flag=60px|Royal Navy Ensign |name=''Dunbar'' |ordered=3 July 1654 |builder=Manley Callis, Deptford Dockyard |laid_down= |launched=1656 |acquired= |commissioned= |decommissioned= |in_service= |out_of_service= |renamed=HMS ''Henry'', 1660 |struck= |reinstated= |honours= |captured= |fate= |notes= }}

|section3={{Infobox ship/career |hide_header= |country=England |flag=60px|Royal Navy Ensign |name=HMS ''Henry'' |ordered= |builder= |laid_down= |launched= |acquired= |commissioned= |decommissioned= |in_service= |out_of_service= |renamed= |struck= |reinstated= |honours= |captured= |fate=Accidentally burnt, 16 May 1682 |notes= }}

|section4={{Infobox ship/characteristics |hide_header= |header_caption= |class=64-gun Second rate ship of the line |tons_burthen=1,046<small>{{frac|76|94}}</small> originally, later 1,081<small>{{frac|81|94}}</small> {{sfnp|Winfield |2007|p=26}} |length={{convert|123|ft|m|1|abbr=on}} originally, later {{convert|124|ft|m|1|abbr=on}} (keel) |beam={{convert|40|ft|0|in|m|1|abbr=on}} originally, later {{convert|40|ft|6|in|m|1|abbr=on}} |draught= |hold_depth={{convert|17|ft|m|1|abbr=on}} |sail_plan=Full-rigged ship |propulsion=Sails |complement= |armament=64 guns (1660); 82 guns (1677) |notes= }} }}

The '''''Dunbar''''' was a 64-gun second rate ship of the line of the Commonwealth of England, originally built at Deptford, and launched in 1656. Taken into the English Royal Navy and renamed '''HMS ''Henry''''' in 1660, she served until 1682, when she was lost in an accidental fire.

==Description== The full-rigged ship as built was {{convert|123|ft|m|1|abbr=on}} long on the keel, with a beam of {{convert|40|ft|0|in|m|1|abbr=on}} and a depth of {{convert|17|ft|m|1|abbr=on}}, resulting in a burthen measurement of 1,046<small>{{frac|76|94}}</small> BM tons. She was later re-measured was {{convert|124|ft|m|1|abbr=on}} long, with a beam of {{convert|40|ft|6|in|m|1|abbr=on}} and a depth of {{convert|17|ft|m|1|abbr=on}}; her builder's old measurement was then 1,081<small>{{frac|81|94}}</small> tons.{{sfnp|Winfield |2007|p=26}} By 1677 her armament had been increased to 82 guns.{{sfnp|Winfield |2007|p=26}}<ref name="Lavery, SoLv1 p160">Lavery, Ships of the Line Vol. 1, p. 160.</ref>

==Service== The ''Dunbar'' was one of four Second rates ordered by the Council of State on 3 July 1654 as part of the 1654 Construction Programme; she was built by Master Shipwright Manley Callis at Deptford Dockyard, Kent and launched in about May 1656 for the Navy of the Commonwealth of England. She had 13 pairs of gunports on the lower deck (one pair unused), 12 pairs on the middle deck, and 10 pairs on the upper deck (3 pairs forward and 7 pairs aft of the waist, where she lacked gunports); she also eventually had 5 more pairs on the quarterdeck, including one pair abaft the quarter-gallery. She was first fitted with 64 guns, comprising 12 demi-cannon and 12 culverins on the lower deck, 12 culverins and 12 demi-culverins on the middle deck, and 16 more demi-culverins on the upper deck (which was only partially armed in the waist at that date); later additional guns were added on what became a fully-armed upper deck, and more additional guns on the quarterdeck. After the Restoration of the monarchy in 1660, she was renamed '''HMS ''Henry'''''.

In 1661/1662 HMS ''Henry'' was the flagship of Admiral John Mennes taking the Earl of Peterborough and the first troops of the new Garrison to occupy English Tangier, returning to England accompanying the Earl of Sandwich and the new Queen Catherine of Braganza.<ref name=Harris>Harris (1912) p. 208</ref> During the Second Anglo-Dutch War HMS ''Henry'' took part in the Battle of Lowestoft on 3 June 1665 as the flagship of Vice-Admiral Sir George Ayscue, in the Four Days' Battle of 1–4 June 1666 as the flagship of Rear-Admiral Sir John Harman (when she was severely damaged), and in the St James Day Battle on 25 July 1666 as the flagship of Rear-Admiral Sir Robert Holmes.<ref name=Fox>Fox (2018) pp. 215-18</ref>{{sfnp|Winfield |2007|p=26}} On 13 June 1667, during the Raid on the Medway, HMS ''Henry'' was driven ashore at Rochester Bridge, Kent,<ref name=MRVp90>Coles Finch, 1929, p. 90</ref> but recommissioned after repairs on 6 April 1668.

During the Third Anglo-Dutch War the ''Henry'' took part in the Battle of Solebay on 28 May 1672, in the two Battles of Schooneveld on 28 May and 4 June 1673, and in the Battle of Texel on 31 August 1673.{{sfnp|Winfield |2007|p=26}} She was accidentally burnt at Chatham Dockyard on 16 May 1682.<ref name="Lavery, SoLv1 p160" />

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==References== {{refbegin}} *{{cite book |title=The Medway River and Valley |first=William |last=Coles Finch |authorlink=William Coles Finch |publisher=C. W. Daniel Ltd |location=London |year=1929 }} *{{cite book |title=The Four Days' Battle of 1666 |first=Frank L. |last=Fox |publisher=Seaforth |year=2008 |isbn=978-1-52673-727-4 }} *{{cite book |last=Harris |first=F R |title=The life of Edward Montagu, KG |publisher=John Murray |place=London|date=1912 |volume=2 }} *{{cite book| last=Lavery |first=Brian |year=1983 |title=The Ship of the Line - Volume 1: The development of the battlefleet 1650-1850. |publisher=Conway Maritime Press. |location= |isbn=0-85177-252-8 }} * {{cite book |first=Rif|last=Winfield|title=British Warships in the Age of Sail 1714–1792: Design, Construction, Careers and Fates|publisher=Seaforth|year=2007|isbn=978-1844157006}} {{refend}}

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