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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.
Grace Dieu was the flagship of King Henry V of England and one of the largest ships of her time. Launched in 1418, she sailed on only one voyage and was subsequently laid up at anchor in the River Hamble .
In 1514 the 1,500-ton carrack Henry Grace à Dieu was launched, the first English two-decker and one of the earliest warships equipped with gunports and heavy bronze cannons. Henry also commissioned the Anthony Roll (now in the Pepys Library), a survey of his navy as it was around 1546, from which comes much of the pictorial evidence for his ships.
The first illustration of the first roll of the Anthony Roll, depicting the Henry Grace à Dieu, the largest ship in the English navy during the reign of King Henry VIII. The Anthony Roll is a written record of ships of the English Tudor navy of the 1540s, named after its creator, Anthony Anthony.
He accompanied King Henry as a Knight of the Body at the sieges of Thérouanne and Tournay later in the year. [2] Henry Grace à Dieu. He was next made captain of the John Baptist in 1513 and Fleet Treasurer. He was promoted Vice-Admiral of England the same year and the following year made captain of the Henry Grace à Dieu.
Henry Grace à Dieu in 1546. In Kent in 1512 the new dockyard buildings at Woolwich included purpose-built accommodation for Brigandyne, so he could supervise the construction of the great warship Henry Grace à Dieu, completed in 1514. [16] [17] [18] Vessels of this size could no longer be built at Smallhythe because of silting in the River ...
Henry VIII of England was unwilling to be outdone, and ordered the building of the 1000-ton Henry Grace à Dieu, launched in roughly 1512, later known as Great Harry, which was even larger. These ships were the first great ships, the precursors of the later ship of the line.
Henry Hampton (purchased 1513) – hulked 1521 and not later recorded; Mary Imperial (1513) – last recorded 1525; Henri Grâce à Dieu ("Great Harry") 186 (1514) – rebuilt 1539, renamed Edward 1547, but accidentally burned 1553. Great Elizabeth (ex Salvator von Lubeck, purchased 1514) – wrecked 1514.