The Rubis was a 60-gun ship of the line of the French Navy. She was designed and built by Laurent Hubac in Brest Dockyard between 1662 and 1665. She was captured by the English Navy in September 1666 at the Battle off Dungeness and added to the English Navy, with which she served for the next 19 years,
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