. The royal navy : a history from the earliest times to the present. 1660-72.] THE NAVIGATION ACTS. 249 England, and it seems to have been first employed in action by hisson, Commander John Leake, of the Fircdrake, at the battle ofBantry Bay. The bomb-ketch became, after the Kevolution, a feature inalmost every English fleet. Machines, or internals, were alsointroduced for a time as substitutes for the older fireships, butwere soon discredited. Some notice of these will be found in thesucceeding chapters.^ The policy illustrated by the Navigation Act of the Common-wealth was persisted in under
. The royal navy : a history from the earliest times to the present. 1660-72.] THE NAVIGATION ACTS. 249 England, and it seems to have been first employed in action by hisson, Commander John Leake, of the Fircdrake, at the battle ofBantry Bay. The bomb-ketch became, after the Kevolution, a feature inalmost every English fleet. Machines, or internals, were alsointroduced for a time as substitutes for the older fireships, butwere soon discredited. Some notice of these will be found in thesucceeding chapters.^ The policy illustrated by the Navigation Act of the Common-wealth was persisted in under Charles II. In 1660,- an Act waspassed providing that all colonial produce should be exported inEnfyhsh vessels ; that no man might establish himself as a factor. AN ENGLISH BOMB KETCH OF 1692. {After Cliar/iocks copy of the orKjiiial draUiiht.) in the colonies ; and that various sorts of colonial produce could beexported only to England and her dependencies. In 1663, it wasenacted that the colonies should receive no goods whatsoever inforeign vessels. And in 1672 the Navigation Act of Charles the introduction of nearly all goods except in Enghshships manned by crews of which at least three-fourths wereEnglish. In the last year of Anne, the law of wrecks was amended, thestatute, 3 Edward III., being confirmed, and it being furtherenacted that in case either the Queens or merchants ships, ridingat anchor near the wreck, should neglect to give assistance upon itsbeing demanded, the commander of any such ship should forfeit 1 And especially on p. 476?i. ^ 1- *^^- ^^- ^^ ^° 250 CIVIL JIISTOLY, 16G0-1714. [1C98. ilOO to the owners of the vessel in distress. And to encouragethe rendering of assistance, there was provision for the payme
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