| James Murray | |
|---|---|
| Born | c. 1500s Unknown, Kingdom of Scotland |
| Died | c. 1600s Poznań, Polish–Lithuanian Commonwealth |
| Allegiance |  Poland–Lithuania |
| Service |  Polish–Lithuanian Commonwealth Navy |
| Rank | Rear-Admiral |
| Battles / wars | Polish–Swedish War (1626–1629) |
Rear-Admiral James Murray (c. 1500s – c. 1600s) was a Polish–Lithuanian Commonwealth Navy officer. Born in Scotland, he emigrated to the Polish–Lithuanian Commonwealth and worked as a shipbuilder and naval officer during the reign of Sigismund III Vasa. He designed the galleon Król Dawid and in 1627 commanded it at the Battle of Oliwa during the Polish–Swedish War.
References
- 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, and we find him still in Poland in 1632 petitioning for a belated birth-brieve.
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