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HMS James (1634)
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HMS James was a 48-gun second rank ship of the line
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of the English
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, built by Phineas Pett II at Deptford and launched in 1634.
By 1660 she had been renamed HMS Old James and her armament had been increased to 60 guns. Old James was sold out of the navy in 1682.