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Grace Dieu was designed for use in battle against Genoa ' s formidable fleet of carracks, that city being at the time the ally of France and enemy of England. To this end she was built with high sides and a prow that rose more than 50 ft (15.24 m), so that her archers could shoot from above into the much lower carracks that she would run alongside.
HMS Grace was one of 11 Thames sailing barges that the Admiralty purchased in 1794 for the British Royal Navy. After the outbreak of the French Revolutionary Wars the Navy found itself without vessels capable of inshore work and riverine operations. In 1795 the Admiralty started to order purpose-built schooner or brigantine-rigged gun vessels.
Henry Grace à Dieu ("Henry, Thanks be to God"), also known as Great Harry, [2] was an English carrack or "great ship" of the King's Fleet in the 16th century, and in her day the largest warship in the world. [2] Contemporary with Mary Rose, Henry Grace à Dieu was even larger, and served as Henry VIII's flagship.
In the logistics section of its report to Parliament on the lessons of the war, the Ministry of Defence highlighted the prodigious expenditure of ammunition and missiles; the high level of logistic support required for operations outside western Europe; the importance of civil resources in the defence effort; and the utility of aerial refuelling.
Grace-Dieu, Leicestershire place Grace Dieu Priory, Augustinian abbey at Grace Dieu, Leicestershire; Grace Dieu Manor School, a former preparatory school in Leicestershire; Grace Dieu Manor, nineteenth century Grade II* country house; Grâce à Dieu, also known as By the Grace of God, a 2019 French film by François Ozon
HMS Regent was a French 16 to 18-gun brig of 350 tons (bm) that the British captured at Genoa in 1814, the Royal Navy purchased in 1816 but then transferred to the Revenue service, and that was sold in 1824.
HMS Warrior is a 40-gun steam-powered armoured frigate [Note 1] built for the Royal Navy in 1859–1861. She was the name ship of the Warrior-class ironclads. Warrior and her sister ship HMS Black Prince were the first armour-plated, iron-hulled warships, and were built in response to France's launching in 1859 of the first ocean-going ironclad warship, the wooden-hulled Gloire.
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