The naval Battle of Dungeness took place on 10 December 1652 during the First Anglo-Dutch War near the cape of Dungeness in Kent. December 10 is the 344th day (345th in leap years) of the year in the Gregorian calendar. ... // Events April 6 - Dutch sailor Jan van Riebeeck establishes a resupply camp for the Dutch East India Company at the Cape of Good Hope, and founded Cape Town. ... The Battle of Scheveningen, 10 August 1653 by Jan Abrahamsz Beerstraaten, painted c. ... Dungeness is the headland of a shingle beach on the Romney Marsh in Kent, England. ... Kent is a county in England, south-east of London. ...

In October 1652 the English government, mistakenly believing that the United Provinces had been defeated at the Battle of the Kentish Knock, sent away ships to the Mediterranean. This left the English badly outnumbered in home waters. Meanwhile the Dutch were making every effort to reinforce their fleet. // Events April 6 - Dutch sailor Jan van Riebeeck establishes a resupply camp for the Dutch East India Company at the Cape of Good Hope, and founded Cape Town. ... The Commonwealth was the republican government which ruled first England and then the whole of Britain, Ireland, the colonies and other Crown possessions during the periods from 1649 (the monarch Charles I being beheaded on January 30 and An Act declaring England to be a Commonwealth being passed by the... This article is about the Dutch United Provinces. ... This painting, Action between ships in the First Dutch War, 1652–1654 by Abraham Willaerts, may depict the Battle of the Kentish Knock. ... The Mediterranean Sea is an intercontinental sea positioned between Europe to the north, Africa to the south and Asia to the east, covering an approximate area of 2. ...

On 1 December 1652 Admiral Maarten Tromp set sail from Helvoetsluys with 88 men of war and 5 fire ships, escorting a vast convoy bound for the Indies. With the convoy safely delivered through the straits of Dover, Tromp turned in search of the English, and on 9 December 1652 he encountered the English fleet of 42 ships commanded by General-at-Sea Robert Blake. Bad weather prevented an action that day, but the next day Blake came out to fight and the two fleets met at about 15:00 near the cape of Dungeness in a "bounteous rhetoric of powder and bullet" (according to a contemporary account). December 1 is the 335th (in leap years the 336th) day of the year in the Gregorian calendar. ... // Events April 6 - Dutch sailor Jan van Riebeeck establishes a resupply camp for the Dutch East India Company at the Cape of Good Hope, and founded Cape Town. ... Maarten Harpertszoon Tromp, 1597–1653, after an engraving by Jan Lievensz. ... Hellevoetsluis (population: 40,164 in 2004) is a town in the western Netherlands, in the province of South Holland. ... A man of war (also man-of-war, man-o-war or simply man) is an armed naval vessel. ... This article is not about the fireboats that fight fire Defeat of the Spanish Armada, 1588-08-08 by Philippe-Jacques de Loutherbourg, painted 1796, depicts Drakes fire ship attack on the Spanish Armada. ... The Strait of Dover (Fr. ... December 9 is the 343rd day (344th in leap years) of the year in the Gregorian calendar. ... // Events April 6 - Dutch sailor Jan van Riebeeck establishes a resupply camp for the Dutch East India Company at the Cape of Good Hope, and founded Cape Town. ... Robert Blake, General at Sea, 1599–1657 by Henry Perronet Briggs, painted 1829. ...

A strong North-East wind prevented a large part of the Dutch fleet from engaging Blake whose fleet by nightfall had lost 5 ships of which the dutch captured two, and damaged many more.The Dutch lost one ship through fire.Blake retreated under cover of darkness to his anchorage in the Downs.Tromp could not be satisfied with the result however as the Dutch had missed an opportunity to annihilate the English.

The victory gave the Dutch temporary control of the English Channel and so control of merchant shipping. A legend says that Tromp attached a broom to his mast as a sign that he had swept the sea clean of his enemies.

The battle not only showed the folly of dividing forces while the Dutch still possessed a large fleet in home waters, but exposed "much baseness of spirit, not among the merchantmen only, but many of the state's ships". It seemed that the captains of hired merchant ships were reluctant to risk their vessels in combat, while the state's ships lacked the men to sail and fight them.

Over the winter, Blake and the Commissioners of the Navy repaired the fleet, reviewed naval tactics and wrote the Sailing and Fighting Instructions, issued to commanders in 1653, and including the first descriptions of the line of battle tactic. By February 1653 the English were ready to challenge the Dutch control of the seas, resulting in the three-day Battle of Portland. Events February 2 - New Amsterdam (later renamed New York City) is incorporated. ... In naval warfare, the line of battle is a tactic in which the ships of the fleet form a line. ... Events February 2 - New Amsterdam (later renamed New York City) is incorporated. ... The Battle of Portland, also known as the Three Days Battle, was a naval battle of the First Anglo-Dutch War. ...