''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.
With a nominal
burden
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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
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during the battle of the
Spanish Armada
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in 1588. In 1595–96 she was rebuilt as a
race-built
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Queen's ships built in England by Sir John Hawkins and his shipbuilders, Richard Chapman, Peter Pett and Mathew Baker from 1570 were galleons of a "race- ...
galleon, but at the time of the Commission of Enquiry in 1618 she was condemned and broken up.
Notes
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. .
External links
Warship design site
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Ships of the English navy
16th-century ships
Ships built in Deptford