The Marston Moor was a 52-gun third rate Speaker-class frigate built for the navy of the Commonwealth of England at Henry Johnson's Blackwall Yard, and launched in November 1653.
[2] She was named for the Parliamentary victory over the Royalists at Marston Moor on 2 July 1644.
She was one of new thirty frigates authorised by the Parliament on 28 September 1652, following the outbreak of the First Anglo-Dutch War in July.
[1] After the Restoration in 1660, she was taken into the new Royal Navy and renamed HMS York in honour of the King's brother James, Duke of York, whom Charles II appointed as Lord High Admiral in June 1660.
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