A List of the Navy, in 1599.

Names. Cannon. Demi-Cannon. Culverins. Demi-Culverins. Sakers. Mynions. Falcons. Falconets. Port-piece Halls. Port-piece Chambers. Fowler Halls. Fowler Chambers. Curtalls. Total
N° of
Pieces
of
Ordnance
Achatis 6 2 5 13
Adventure 4 11 5 2 4 26
Advantage 6 8 4 18
Amity of Harwich† 4 2 6
St. Andrew 8 21 7 2 3 7 2 50
Antelope 4 13 8 1 2 4 2 4 38
Advice 4 2 3 9
Arke 4 4 12 12 6 4 7 2 4 55
Answer 5 8 2 2 4 21
Ayde 8 2 4 4 18
Bear 2 2
White Bear 3 11 7 10 2 7 40
Charles 8 2 2 4 16
Crane 6 7 6 2 3 24
Cygnet 1 2 3
Due Repulse 2 3 13 14 6 2 4 2 4 50
Dreadnought 2 4 11 10 2 4 8 41
Defiance 14 14 6 2 4 2 4 46
Daysey* 4 4
Elizabeth-Jonas 3 6 8 9 9 1 2 1 2 5 10 56
Eliza Bonaventure 2 2 11 14 4 2 2 4 2 4 47
Foresight 14 8 3 2‡ 3 6 37
Guardland 16 14 4 2 4 2 3 45
Hope 2 4 9 11 4 4 8 2 4 48
Lion 4 8 14 9 1 8 16 60
Mary Rose 4 11 10 4 3 7 39
Mere Honora 4 15 16 4 2 41
St. Matthew 4 4 16 14 4 4 2 48
Mercury or Galley-Mercury 1 1 4 6
Merlin 7 7
Moon 4 4 1 9
Nonpareil 2 3 7 8 12 4 8 4 8 56
Quittance 2 6 7 4 2 4 25
Rainbow 6 12 7 1 26
Scout 4 6 10
Swiftsure 2 5 12 8 2 4 8 41
Spy 4 2 3 9
Swallow 2 1 2 3 8
Sonne 1 4 5
Triumph 4 3 17 8 6 1 4 5 20 68
Tremontana 12 7 2 21
Tiger 6 14 2 22
Vauntguard 4 14 11 2 31
Victory 12 18 9 7 13 59
Wastspight 2 2 13 10 2 29

† A Drumler.—This was an inferior sort of ship.

* A Drumler.

‡ In a Parenthesis is noted, "And one Spanish."


Charles Derrick: Memoirs of the Rise and Progress of the Royal Navy.
Blacks & Parry; Cadell & Davies; G. & W. Nicol; H. Teape, London, 1806. pp 31-33.

Transcribed by Lars Bruzelius


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