Raid on the Medway

Raid on the Medway
Part of the Second Anglo-Dutch War
Attack on the Medway, June 1667 by Pieter Cornelisz van Soest, painted c. 1667. The captured ship Royal Charles is right of centre
Date 9–14 June 1667 (Old Style), 19 – 24 June 1667 (New Style) Location Near Chatham, England Result Decisive Dutch victory
Belligerents
Dutch Republic	England
Commanders and leaders
Michiel de Ruyter Willem van Ghent Cornelis de Witt	Prince Rupert Duke of Albemarle
Strength
About 60 ships; 1500 marines	Several ships, garrisons of the forts Upnor and Sheerness
Casualties and losses
Around 50 Marines and 8 fireships	13 English ships lost, HMS Unity and HMS Royal Charles captured (The transom of HMS Royal Charles was returned to Prince Charles During King Willem Alexander's visit to the Olympic games in 2012.)

Michiel de Ruyter
Willem van Ghent

Prince Rupert

13 English ships lost,
HMS Unity and HMS Royal Charles captured

The Raid on the Medway during the Second Anglo-Dutch War in June 1667, sometimes called the Battle of the Medway, Raid on Chatham or the Battle of Chatham, was a successful and daring attack conducted by the Dutch navy deep upriver targeting the largest English naval battleships at a time when most were virtually unmanned and unarmed, laid up due to lack of funding in the fleet anchorages off Chatham Dockyard and Gillingham in the county of Kent. At the time, the fortress of Upnor Castle and a barrier chain called the 'Gillingham Line' were supposed to protect the mothballed naval ships anchored off Chatham, the main English naval base in southeastern Stuart England.

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