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Henry started a programme of building specialised warships. By the end of his reign there were five royal ships, two being four-masted carracks that were much larger than the usual English merchant ship. By the time that Henry VIII died in 1547 the navy had been built up to about 40 ships. The invention of gunport meant that guns could be ...
Accomplished Quaker (1801 ship) Active (1801 whaler) Active (1805 ship) French brig Adèle; Adèle (1800 brig) Admiral Cockburn (1814 ship) Admiral Juel; Hired armed cutter Admiral Mitchell; Albatros (19th-century ship) Hired armed cutter Albion; Hired armed lugger Alert; Amelia Wilson (1809 ship) Ann (1807 ship) Anstruther (1800 ship) Atlantic ...
The Clipper Ship Flying Cloud off the Needles, Isle of Wight, off the southern English coast. Painting by James E. Buttersworth. The Maritime history of Europe represents the era of recorded human interaction with the sea in the northwestern region of Eurasia in areas that include shipping and shipbuilding, shipwrecks, naval battles, and military installations and lighthouses constructed to ...
Great ships all the ships listed (except Warspite) were rebuilds of earlier ships [4] Due Repulse 40/48 (1610) – also known as Repulse, BU 1645 [4] Defiance 38/40 (1615) – Sold 1650 [4] Warspite 29 (1596) – Harbour service (converted to lighter) 1635 [4] Red Lion 38 (1609) – also known as Lion, rebuilt 1640 [4] Vanguard (1615 ...
Aberdeen (1811 ship) Accomplished Quaker (1801 ship) Achilles (1813 ship) Actaeon (1815 Topsham ship) Active (1781 ship) Active (1789 ship) Active (1793 ship) Active (1799 ship) Active (1805 ship) Admiral Duncan (1798 ship) Admiral Gardner (1797 EIC ship) Admiral Kingsmill (1796 ship) Admiral Kingsmill (1798 ship) HMS Adonis (1806) Adrian (1819 ...
The fleets of neutral countries had expanded and in the 1920s there was a slump in shipping. Development of refrigerated ships allowed the importation of lamb and other meats from places such as New Zealand. A large number of merchant ships were sunk in the Second World War, but Britain's fleet had expanded by the end due to new construction.
The Phoenicians were an ancient civilization centered in the north of ancient Canaan, with its heartland along the coast of modern-day Lebanon, Western Syria and northern Israel. Phoenician civilization was an enterprising maritime trading culture that spread across the Mediterranean during the first millennium BC, between the period of 1200 BC ...
This is a list of ships of the line of the Royal Navy of England, and later (from 1707) of Great Britain, and the United Kingdom.The list starts from 1660, the year in which the Royal Navy came into being after the restoration of the monarchy under Charles II, up until the emergence of the battleship around 1880, as defined by the Admiralty.