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James Murray | |
|---|---|
| Born |
c. 1500s Unknown, Kingdom of Scotland |
| Died |
c. 1600s Poznan, Polish–Lithuanian Commonwealth |
| Allegiance | 
Polish–Lithuanian Commonwealth |
| Service/ |
Polish-Lithuanian Navy |
| Rank | Captain |
| Battles/wars | Polish–Swedish War (1626–29) |
James Murray ( c. 1500s – c. 1600s), known in the Polish–Lithuanian Commonwealth as Jakob Mura, was a Scottish emigrant to the Polish–Lithuanian Commonwealth who became a naval captain and shipbuilder in Poland during the reign of King Sigismund III Vasa. [1] He built the galleon Król Dawid and in 1627, commanded it at the Battle of Oliwa.
References
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^ Wijaczka, Jacek (2010).
"Szkoci" (PDF). Pod wspólnym niebem. Narody dawnej Rzeczypospolitej (in Polish). Warsaw: Bellona.
ISBN
9788311117242. Retrieved 22 May 2022. p. 212:
Szkoci nie tylko służyli jako żołnierze w armii polskiej, lecz także pomagali ją unowocześniać...Kolejny Szkot z Pucka, James Murray od roku 1621 kierował budową floty w Gdańsku. Dzięki jego działalności flota królewska w 1627 roku liczyła dziesięć okrętów. Jako dowódca zbudowanego przez siebie galeonu „Król Dawid" wziął udział, w randze kontradmirała, w morskiej bitwie pod Oliwą (1627). Ze względu na barwny życiorys stał się bohaterem pięciu powieści Jerzego Rychlińskiego (między innymi Galeon kapitana Mory, Warszawa 1968).
- Anna Biegańska, "James Murray: A Scot in the Making of the Polish Navy," Scottish Slavonic Review 3 (1984): 1-9
- Steuart, Archibald Francis (1915).
Papers relating to the Scots in Poland, 1576-1793, ed. with an introduction by A. Francis Steuart. Publications of the Scottish History Society. Vol. 59. Edinburgh: T. and A. Constable for the
Scottish History Society.
hdl:
2027/bc.ark:/13960/t1kh37m9z.
LCCN
16001952.
OCLC
1050264239.
OL
6583804M. p. xxi:
Colonel James Murray was also a Scottish officer of the Poles. In 1627 he commissioned one Jacob Rowan (the persecuted Ruthvens sometimes took that name) at Dantzig to collect his pension,[Fischer, East and West Prussia, iv. p. 129.] and we find him still in Poland in 1632 petitioning for a belated birth-brieve.[Reg. Privy Council (2nd Series) pp. 480, 481. See this book, pp. 10, 11 also.]
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