Battle of Lowestoft | |||||||
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Part of the Second Anglo-Dutch War | |||||||
![]() The Battle of Lowestoft, Adriaen Van Diest | |||||||
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Strength | |||||||
109 warships 4,542 guns 22,055 men |
103 warships 4,869 guns 21,613 men | ||||||
Casualties and losses | |||||||
500 killed and wounded 1 warship captured |
2,500 killed and wounded 2,000 captured 3 warships sunk 5 warships destroyed 9 warships captured |
The Battle of Lowestoft took place on 13 June [O.S. 3 June] 1665 during the Second Anglo-Dutch War. A fleet of more than a hundred ships of the United Provinces commanded by Lieutenant-Admiral Jacob van Wassenaer, Lord Obdam, attacked a British fleet of equal size commanded by James, Duke of York, forty miles east of the port of Lowestoft in Suffolk.
Although it was a substantial English victory, the escape of the bulk of the Dutch fleet deprived England of the chance of ending the war quickly with a single decisive victory. As a result, the Dutch were able to make good their losses by building new and better-armed ships and improving their organisation and discipline. Their Dutch fleets would not be so badly organised or ill-disciplined in the remaining battles of this war and, in Obdam's replacement, Michiel de Ruyter, the Dutch had gained a superb tactician and leader for the remainder of the war.
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