''Repulse'',
[The 'HMS' prefix was not used until the middle of the 18th century, but is sometimes applied retrospectively] sometimes written as ''Due Repulse'', was a 40/48-gun ship of the
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Tudor navy
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, launched in 1596.
''Repulse'' was rebuilt in 1610 as a
great ship
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of 34 principal guns, plus 6 smaller anti-personnel guns.
In 1613 ''The Repulse'' was appointed to escort
Princess Elizabeth, daughter of
James VI and I
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, and
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sailing in ''
The Prince Royal'' from
Margate
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to
Ostend
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.
''Foedera'', 7 (The Hague, 1739), p. 189
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She was broken up in 1649.
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*Lavery, Brian (2003) ''The Ship of the Line - Volume 1: The development of the battlefleet 1650-1850.'' Conway Maritime Press. .
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