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  2. English ship Revenge (1577) - Wikipedia

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    Early full-rigged ship [1] Complement. Approx. 260 [1] Armament. Forty-six guns: 20 heavy guns on the gundeck. 26 other pieces [2] Revenge was an English race-built galleon of 46 guns, built in 1577 and captured by the Spanish in 1591, sinking soon afterwards. She was the first of 13 English and Royal Navy ships to bear the name.

  3. English ship Ark Royal (1587) - Wikipedia

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    Ark Royal. (1587) The Ark Royal, engraving by Claes Jansz. Visscher. Ark Royal[Note 1] was an English galleon, originally ordered for Sir Walter Raleigh and later purchased by the crown for service in the Tudor navy. She was used as the English flagship in a number of engagements, including the battles that resulted in the defeat of the Spanish ...

  4. Galleon - Wikipedia

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    Galleons were large, multi-decked sailing ships developed in Spain and Portugal [3][4][5][6] and first used as armed cargo carriers by Europeans from the 16th to 18th centuries during the Age of Sail and were the principal vessels drafted for use as warships until the Anglo-Dutch Wars of the mid-17th century. [7]

  5. Thomas Cavendish's circumnavigation - Wikipedia

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    2 ships lost. 78 killed, drowned or captured [3] Thomas Cavendish's circumnavigation was a voyage of raid and exploration by English navigator and sailor Thomas Cavendish which took place during the Anglo–Spanish War between 21 July 1586 and 9 September 1588. Following in the footsteps of Francis Drake who circumnavigated the globe, Thomas ...

  6. Ship of the line - Wikipedia

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    A 1784 painting of French ship of the line Saint-Esprit by Nicholas Pocock. Two fleets in their line of battle during the Battle of Cuddalore. HMS Hercule as depicted in her fight against the frigate Poursuivante. A ship of the line was a type of naval warship constructed during the Age of Sail from the 17th century to the mid-19th century.

  7. English ship Dreadnought (1573) - Wikipedia

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    Dreadnought[Note 1] was a 41-gun galleon of the Tudor navy, built by Mathew Baker and launched in 1573. Like HMS Dreadnought of 1906, she was a radical innovation over contemporary ships. When John Hawkins became Treasurer of the Navy in 1577, he had sailed all over the world, and his ideas contributed to the production of a new race-built ...

  8. List of ships of the Spanish Armada - Wikipedia

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    Galleon: A heavy square-rigged sailing ship of the 16th to early 18th centuries used for war or commerce especially by the Spanish. They were the fastest ships built during the 16th century. Galleons were large, multi-decked sailing ships first used as armed cargo carriers. The full body of the fleet took two days to leave port.

  9. English ship Rainbow (1586) - Wikipedia

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    Rainbow [Note 1] was a galleon of the English Tudor navy, built at Deptford Dockyard by Peter Pett (the first of that name in this extensive family), and launched in 1586. . Commanded by Lord Henry Seymour, a younger son of Edward Seymour, 1st Duke of Somerset by his second wife Anne Stanhope, she fought against the Spanish during the Singeing the King of Spain's Beard and the Spanish Armada ...