van Wassenaer Obdam. She took part in the expedition to Danzig in 1656, by when she had been increased to 68 guns, and she fought successfully in the Northern Wars, defeating the Swedish fleet in the Battle of the Sound on 8 November 1658, by which time she carried 72 guns. By the start of the Second Anglo-Dutch War she had been re-armed to carry 72 guns, now comprising four 36-pdrs, twenty-six 24-pdrs, twenty 12-pdrm eighteen 6-pdrs and four 2-pdrs. In the Battle of Lowestoft on 13 June 1665, the first battle of the Second Anglo-Dutch War, Eendracht, then armed with 73 guns, duelled the much heavier 80-gun English flagship Royal Charles. The Dutch chain shot killed a number of courtiers standing next to Lord High Admiral James Stuart on the English ship, but in the early afternoon Eendracht was hit in the powder room and exploded, killing Van Obdam. There were only five survivors out of the crew of 409. The Maas Amiralty promptly ordered a replacement 76-gun ship (of 160 Amsterdam feet () in length) to carry the same name; she was built at Rotterdam by Salomon Janszoon van den Tempel, son of the previous builder, and completed in time to take part in the battles in the summer of 1666. References James Bender, Dutch Warships in the Age of Sail 1600-1714: Design, Construction, Careers and Fates. Seaforth Publishing, Barnsley, 2014. . J. C. De Jonge, Geschiedenis van het Nederlandsche Zeewegen, Vol.1, Haarlem, 1858. A. Vreugdenhil, Ships of the United Netherlands, 1648-1702. Society for Nautical Research, London, 1938. Ships of the line of the Dutch Republic 1650s ships