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Robert Blake
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Robert Blake
Personal Details
Date of Birth | August 1598 | Place of Birth | Bridgewater | Father's Name | Humphrey Blake - A merchant (???? - 1625) | Mother's Name | ? (???? - 1638) | Date of Death | 17th August 1657 | Place of Death | At sea on board the George in Plymouth Sound | Place of Burial | King Henry VII's Chapel, Westminster Abbey |
Naval Service Details
Date | Ship | Notes | February 1649 | | Appointed General at Sea together with Edward Popham and Richard Deane as joint commanders of the navy | 1649 | Lion | Blockade of Prince Rupert in Kinsale | October 1649 | Lion | The Royalist ships broke the Blockade and sailed for Lisbon | March 1650 | | Lead a fleet to the Mediterranean in pursuit of Prince Rupert | September 1650 | | Prince Rupert attempted to break out of Lisbon, but failed | September 1650 | | Took several ships of the incoming Portugese Brazil fleet | May 1651 | | Took the Scilly Isles from the Royalist garrison | October 1651 | | Attacked and beseiged the Royalist stronghold on Jersey | December 1651 | | Elizabeth Castle, Jersey surrendered after a fifty day seige | 1652 | | Commander of the Navy in the Channel | 1653 | Triumph | Commander of the Navy in the Channel | 28th February 1653 | Triumph | Wounded in the leg at the Battle of Portland | June 1653 | Triumph | Ill health forced a return to England | October 1654 | | Commander of a fleet bound for the Mediterranean to act against the corsair states of North Africa | April 1655 | | Attacked and sank eight Turkish vessels at the Battle of Porto Farina | October 1655 | | Returned to England | March 1656 | George (60) | Sailed for the Mediterranean with a fleet of forty-eight ships | 1656 | George (60) | Blockade of Cádiz | July 1657 | George (60) | Left the Mediterranean for England |
Other Details
1629 | A merchant named Robert Blake was active in Dorchester | April 1640 | Elected Member of Parliament for Bridgewater | November 1640 | Failed to gain re-election | | Became a captain in Alexander Popham's Regiment of Foot | 1645 | Elected Member of Parliament for Taunton |
Notes
- Blake's brother Benjamin Blake (1614-1689) served under Robert, emigrated to Carolina in 1682, and was the father of Joseph Blake, governor of South Carolina in 1694 and from 1696 to 1700.
- Blake's brother Samual Blake fought under Popham before being killed in a duel in 1645.
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