By Angus Konstam
During this e-book, specialist Angus Konstam explores the fledging Tudor military, tracing its background, from its origins as a service provider fleet lower than Henry VII via to its emergence as a strong strength lower than Henry VIII. interpreting the operational use of Henry's Tudor warships the writer analyzes the conflict of the Solent in 1545, within which Henry's fleet took on a French fleet of 2 hundred ships - a lot higher than the Spanish Armada many years later. regardless of the good documented lack of his flagship, the Mary Rose Henry's smaller strength succeeded in fighting a French victory. even though many folks can have heard of the amazing Mary Rose, this ebook will inform the tale of greater than simply the tragic sinking of Henry's flagship, describing how one among history's so much dynamic kings grew the military from the 5 warships that have been his father's legacy to fifty-three lethal gunships on the vanguard of his empire-building method. via modern illustrations and complex paintings, the writer strains the altering face of warship layout throughout the Renaissance as Henry cleared the path for English dominance of the sea.
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These ships were simply not designed to engage in a long-range gunnery duel. Instead, guns were designed to fire a massed broadside immediately prior to coming alongside an enemy, and then soldiers and sailors would fight a boarding action. In 1545 the Mary Rose was typical of the other major warships in the Navy Royal, carrying almost as many soldiers as it did sailors (185 soldiers to 200 mariners and 20 gunners). These troops were armed with ranged weapons (mainly longbows, augmented by a few handguns) and melee weapons (pikes and bills), while everyone on board, sailors or soldiers, would have some form of knife or dagger, if not a sword or axe.
Then a series of wrought-iron rings of varying thicknesses and widths were heat-shrunk around the staves, thus forming a tube capable of withstanding the pressure of a gunpowder explosion. (Drawing by author) ~~~ ~~~ ~~ [. =:.. ~ 35 Major additions to Henry VIII's Navy Royal, 1509-47 Date Vessel Type Tonnage Notes Service ended 1509 (B) Mary Rose Ship 500 tons Rebuilt 1536 (as 700-ton vessel). 60 guns 1545 1510 (B) Peter Pomegranate Ship 450 tons Renamed Peter, 1536 60 guns Ship 300 tons 1512 (P) Christ 1512 (P) Maria de Larreto Carrack 800 tons Captured from Genoese Returned to Genoa, 1514 1512 (P) Katherine Fortune Carrack 550 tons Sometimes known as Katherine Fortileza.
Despite its simplicity the artist has attempted to show the substantial heavy ordnance carried by the Regent on her gundeck. (Stratford Archive) the largest warship in the Tudor fleet. The boarders drove the Frenchmen from the upper deck, but then on the verge of victory came disaster. A fire broke out on the French ship and within minutes the Cordeliere was ablaze. The rigging of the Regent and the Cordeliere had also become entwined, and the English ship was unable to free herself. Inevitably the fire spread, and soon both ships were consumed by the flames.