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The battle-damaged Revenge was cast upon a cliff next to the island off Terceira, where she broke up completely. Between 1592 and 1593, 14 guns of the Revenge were recovered by the Spanish from the site of the wreck. Other cannons were driven ashore years later by the tide, and the last weapons raised were salvaged as late as 1625.
HMS Revenge (1778) was a 14-gun brig-sloop in service in 1778 and captured by the Americans in 1779. HMS Revenge (1796) was an 8-gun cutter purchased in 1796 and listed until 1798. HMS Revenge (1805) was a 74-gun third rate launched in 1805 and broken up in 1849. HMS Revenge (1859) was a 91-gun screw powered second rate launched in
The "Revenge" surrended at dawn after "only" ten hours battle (Grenville seriously wounded by a musket shot in the head and only 60 crew survivors, most wounded) with more than 800 cannon shots impacts, 2 metres of water in her hull and the admiration and respect of the whole Spanish fleet.
Sir Francis Drake's expedition of 1572–1573 was an uncommissioned privateer profiteering sea voyage by Sir Francis Drake (c. 1540–1596), of the beginnings of the Royal Navy of the Kingdom of England (island of Great Britain), (under its monarch Queen Elizabeth I (the Great) (1533–1603, reigned 1558–1603).
The massacre of Mullaghmast (Irish: ár Mhullach maistean) was the mass killing of between 100 and 400 members of the Gaelic nobility of Ireland by English forces under the command of Sir Henry Sidney in Mullaghmast, County Kildare in either late 1577 or 1 January 1578. [1]
Revenge sank with her mixed prize-crew of 70 Spaniards and English prisoners near the island of Terceira, at the approximate position [ 9 ] The battle, however, marked the resurgence of Spanish naval power [ 7 ] and proved that the English chances of catching and defeating a well-defended treasure fleet were remote. [ 8 ]
Grenville's final action at Flores inspired the popular poem The Revenge: A Ballad of the Fleet by Lord Tennyson, which dramatically narrates the course of the engagement. Grenville's final battle on Revenge is mentioned in a poem by Robert E. Howard; ("Solomon Kane's Homecoming") from Fanciful Tales (1936).
Golden Hind was a galleon captained by Francis Drake in his circumnavigation of the world between 1577 and 1580. She was originally known as Pelican, but Drake renamed her mid-voyage in 1578, in honour of his patron, Sir Christopher Hatton, whose crest was a golden hind (a female red deer). Hatton was one of the principal sponsors of Drake's ...