English ships fight the Spanish Armada, 1588
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Name | Triumph |
Builder | Deptford Dockyard |
Laid down | 1561 |
Launched | October 1562 |
Fate | Rebuilt 1598–99. Condemned, 1618 |
General characteristics as newbuilt 1561-62 | |
Class and type | 42-gun great ship |
Tons burthen | 742 tons |
Length | Unrecorded |
Beam | Unrecorded |
Depth of hold | Unrecorded |
Sail plan | Full-rigged ship |
Complement | 500 |
Armament |
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General characteristics as rebuilt 1598-99[1] | |
Class and type | 55-gun great ship |
Tons burthen | 760 tons |
Length | 100 ft (30 m) (keel) |
Beam | 40 ft (12 m) |
Depth of hold | 19 ft (5.8 m) |
Sail plan | Full-rigged ship |
Complement | 500 |
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Triumph of 1562 was the first vessel of record to hold the name. She was a 60-gun English galleon built in Deptford in 1561–62 and launched in October 1562, and once the flagship of Admiral Robert Blake.
With a nominal burden of 1000 tons, she was the largest ship built in England during the reign of Queen Elizabeth I. Triumph was a square-rigged galleon of four masts, including two lateen-rigged mizzenmasts. She served effectively as the flagship of Vice-Admiral Martin Frobisher during the battle of the Spanish Armada in 1588. In 1595–96 she was rebuilt as a race-built galleon, but at the time of the Commission of Enquiry in 1618 she was condemned and broken up.
Notes
- ^ Oppenheim, A History of the Administration of the Royal Navy 1509-1660, p124.
References
- R C Anderson. List of English Men of War 1509 - 1649.
- Rif Winfield, British Warships in the Age of Sail 1603-1714: Design, Construction, Careers and Fates. Seaforth Publishing, 2009. ISBN 978-1-84832-040-6.