#roayl navy

The Dutch Raid on the Medway at the mouth of the River Thames where the Dutch navy destroyed fifteen of the Royal Navy’s last remaining ships during the Second Anglo-Dutch war of 1667. The daring raid remains England’s greatest naval disaster to date and lead to a quick end to the war with a Dutch dictated peace treaty. The HMS Royal Charles was towed back to the Netherlands as a trophy and its coat of arms is still on display in the Rijksmuseum in Amsterdam to this day