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Admiral Sir
George Ayscue (ca
1616–
1671) was an English naval officer who served in the
Civil War and the
Anglo-Dutch Wars.
In 1648, during the
Civil War, while serving as a captain in the navy of the English Parliament, he prevented the fleet from defecting to the Royalists, and was promoted to General at Sea. In
1651 he served with General at Sea
Robert Blake in the capture of the
Scilly Isles from Sir
John Grenville. Later that year he captured
Barbados from
Lord Willoughby and the other English colonies in the Americas.
In the
First Anglo-Dutch War he was defeated by the Dutch Commodore
Michiel de Ruyter at the
Battle of Plymouth. Relieved of his command, he went into service in the Swedish Navy, returning after the
Restoration of
Charles II.
In the
Second Anglo-Dutch War he commanded a squadron at the
Battle of Lowestoft in
1665. At the
Four Days' Battle in
1666 his flagship, the
Prince Royal, ran aground on the Galloper Shoal and he was forced to surrender his ship to
Lieutenant-Admiral Cornelis Tromp, earning the unfortunate distinction of being the last admiral of the
Royal Navy to have been captured by the enemy. He was held prisoner during the war in the Dutch state prison of
Loevestein.
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