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.
James Murray | |
|---|---|
| Born | c. 1500s Unknown, Kingdom of Scotland |
| Died | c. 1600s Poznań, Polish–Lithuanian Commonwealth |
| Allegiance |  Polish–Lithuanian Commonwealth |
| Service |  Polish-Lithuanian Navy |
| Rank | Captain |
| Battles / wars | Polish–Swedish War (1626–1629) |
References
edit- ^ 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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