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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 Makassar (or Macassa) (1806): same vessel as HMS Celebes (1806) - nothing to add; HMS Malacca (1809) - nothing to add; the NMM database has a referral entry under the name HMS Penang, and a longer entry under the name HMS Malaoca. HMS Malta (1800 schooner); nothing to add; HMS Mandarin (1810) - nothing to add; HMS Manly (1804) - nothing to add
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.
Operated under the management of W T Gould & Co Ltd, Cardiff. Sold in 1960 to Kam Kee Navigation Co Ltd, and renamed Shun Tai. Operated under the management of Jebshun & Co Ltd, Hong Kong. Sold in 1968 to Chan Moo Chu and reflagged to Somalia, still under Jebshun's management.
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
Revenge was built at a cost of £4,000 at the Royal Dockyard, Deptford in 1577 by master shipwright Mathew Baker.His race-built design was to usher in a new style of ship building that would revolutionise naval warfare for the next three hundred years.
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.
The town's railway station. Diêu Trì is a town of Tuy Phước District, in Bình Định Province, Vietnam.It had a population of 11,671 in 1999. Diêu Trì is most noted for the Diêu Trì Railway Station on the North–South Railway (Reunification Express) which connects by a branch line to Quy Nhơn Railway Station and the city of Quy Nhơn, population of 250,000 people, ten kilometres ...