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(c.1615–1681) was a shipbuilder for the
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and occasionally for the
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. He is mentioned more than once in the
Diary of Samuel Pepys Samuel Pepys (; 23 February 1633 – 26 May 1703) was an English diarist and naval administrator. He served as administrator of the Royal Navy and Member of Parliament and is most famous for the diary he kept for a decade. Pepys had no marit ...
.


Life

He was the son of William Castle (d.1649) shipwright at
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(now known as Rotherhithe) and his wife Margaret (d.1635). His younger brother Thomas was also a shipwright. He entered the
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in 1629 as a ship's carpenter.
Samuel Pepys Samuel Pepys (; 23 February 1633 – 26 May 1703) was an English diarist and naval administrator. He served as administrator of the Royal Navy and Member of Parliament and is most famous for the diary he kept for a decade. Pepys had no mariti ...
first mentions Castle in 1664, commenting on the appearance of his wife. He is buried with his parents in the floor of
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Parish Church.


Family

In 1636 he married Elizabeth. On 5 July 1663 he married (as a second wife) Martha Batten, daughter of Sir
William Batten Sir William Batten (1601 to 5 October 1667) was an English naval officer and administrator from Somerset, who began his career as a merchant seaman, served as second-in-command of the Parliamentarian navy during the First English Civil War, th ...
, Surveyor of the Navy. His son William Castle died in 1696. A younger son John Castle died in 1700.


Ships of note

* HMS Taunton (1654) 40-gun ship launched at
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renamed HMS Crown in 1660 *
HMS Dover (1654) HMS ''Dover'' was a 40-gun fourth-rate frigate of the Royal Navy, originally built for the navy of the Commonwealth of England at Shoreham by William Castle, and launched in 1654. By 1677, her armament had been increased to 48 guns. At the ...
a 40-gun
ship of the line A ship of the line was a type of naval warship constructed during the Age of Sail from the 17th century to the mid-19th century. The ship of the line was designed for the naval tactic known as the line of battle, which depended on the two colu ...
launched at Shoreham * HMS Monmouth (1666) an 8-gun yacht launched at
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*HMS Navy (1666) an 8-gun yacht launched at
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*
HMS Defiance (1666) HMS ''Defiance'' was a 64-gun third rate ship of the line of the English Royal Navy, ordered on 26 October 1664 under the new construction programme of that year, and launched on 27 March 1666 at William Castle's private shipyard at Deptford ...
a 64-gun
ship of the line A ship of the line was a type of naval warship constructed during the Age of Sail from the 17th century to the mid-19th century. The ship of the line was designed for the naval tactic known as the line of battle, which depended on the two colu ...
launched at
Deptford Dockyard Deptford Dockyard was an important naval dockyard and base at Deptford on the River Thames, operated by the Royal Navy from the sixteenth to the nineteenth centuries. It built and maintained warships for 350 years, and many significant events a ...
destroyed in a fire 1668 *"Bombay Merchant" (1668) for the
East India Company The East India Company (EIC) was an English, and later British, joint-stock company founded in 1600 and dissolved in 1874. It was formed to trade in the Indian Ocean region, initially with the East Indies (the Indian subcontinent and Southea ...
launched on the Thames *HMS Kitchen (1670) 8-gun yacht launched at
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* HMS Hope (1678) 70-gun
ship of the line A ship of the line was a type of naval warship constructed during the Age of Sail from the 17th century to the mid-19th century. The ship of the line was designed for the naval tactic known as the line of battle, which depended on the two colu ...
launched at
Deptford Dockyard Deptford Dockyard was an important naval dockyard and base at Deptford on the River Thames, operated by the Royal Navy from the sixteenth to the nineteenth centuries. It built and maintained warships for 350 years, and many significant events a ...
* HMS Elizabeth (1679) 70-gun ship of the line launched at Barnard's Yard at Deptford Green on the Thames


Ships by William Castle the Younger

* HMS Mordaunt (1682) 48-gun ship of the line launched at Deptford, started by father, completed by the son * HMS Griffin (1690) 28-gun ship launched at
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* HMS Hart (1691) 10-gun
ketch A ketch is a two- masted sailboat whose mainmast is taller than the mizzen mast (or aft-mast), and whose mizzen mast is stepped forward of the rudder post. The mizzen mast stepped forward of the rudder post is what distinguishes the ketch fr ...
launched at
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References

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