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Medal commemorating the ships burnt in the Medway, 1667 and Admiral Michel Adrianzoon de Ruyter
Medal commemorating the ships burnt in the Medway, 1667 and Admiral Michel Adrianzoon de Ruyter (1607-1676). Obverse: Bust of Admiral de Ruyter (three-quarter right) with crevat and collar with the badge of the Order of St Michael. Legend: 'MICHIEL ADr DE RVYTER . R . L . ADM . V . HOLL . E. WESTV . EC' (Michael, son of Adrian de Ruyter, Knight Lieutenant-Admiral of Holland and West Friesland, etc). Reverse: Burning of the ships near Chatham, inscription on a shell below. 'Jun . 1667 Door Order van haer E. Hoogh Mog onder 't'beleyt van d . Heer . R . Mich . A . d . Ruyter L . Ad . generael syn besprongen op de Rivier van Chattam d Coninckx Oorloogh Schepen en die verbrant en gesonken' (By order of their High Mightinesses, and under the command of Sir Michael, son of Adrian de Ruyter, Lt Adm. Gen., the ships of war of the King were attacked, burnt and sunk in the river of Chatham).
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Object Details
| ID: | MEC0104 |
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| Collection: | Coins and medals |
| Type: | Medal |
| Display location: | Display - QH |
| Creator: | Abeele, Peter van |
| Places: | Netherlands |
| Events: | Second Anglo-Dutch War: Attack on the Medway, 1667; Second Anglo-Dutch War; 1665-1667 |
| Date made: | 1667 |
| People: | Ruyter, Michel Adriaenszoon de |
| Credit: | National Maritime Museum, Greenwich, London |
| Measurements: | Overall: 72 mm |