''Merhonour''
[The 'HMS' prefix was not used until the middle of the eighteenth century, but is sometimes applied retrospectively] was a ship of the
Tudor navy
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of
England
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. It was built in 1590 by
Mathew Baker at
Woolwich Dockyard
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, and was rebuilt by
Phineas Pett I at Woolwich between 1612 and 1615, being relaunched on 6 March 1615 as a 40-gun royal ship.
It was then laid up at
Chatham
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, only briefly returning to service in the 1630s. It was nevertheless considered to be one of the fastest ships in the Navy.
''Merhonour'' was sold out of the navy in 1650.
[Lavery, Ships of the Line vol.1, p158.]
Notes
Citations
References
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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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Ships of the English navy
16th-century ships
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