HMS Breda (1679)

HMS Bredah or Breda was a 70-gun third rate ship of the line of the English Royal Navy, launched at Harwich in 1679.

[1] Having fought in the Battle of Beachy Head in 1690, Bredah was destroyed by an accidental fire later that year after participating in the Siege of Cork.

[3] Built under the supervision of naval architect Master Shipwright Isaac Betts at Harwich Dockyard, Bredah was launched on 26 September 1679, part of the second batch of eight third rates of the 1677 programme.

[2] Bredah was commissioned on 26 July 1679 under the command of Captain John Moore, who died on 17 November of that year, so that she could be moved to Chatham Dockyard.

Jacobite prisoner Colonel John Barrett, who escaped, was considered to have deliberately blown up the ship.

Beachy Head, 10 July 1690: Bredah and the blue squadron (rear) were opposed to d'Estrees' French rear