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Longbowmen and crossbowmen take aim at one another in this depiction of a fifteenth-century naval battle. (Cotton Jul. E VI Art. 6 f. 18, British Library) Henry Tudor landing in Wales. After defeating Warwick and regaining the throne Edward IV began rebuilding the royal fleet by constructing ships and gathering a new cadre of experienced […]

The growth in the size of sloops (drawings to the same scale). Many of the Merlin class sloops of 1745 were converted to ship rig in the 1750s, although this was under consideration in the 1740s. The year 1727 saw the death of George I and the coronation of his son who, like his father, would preside […]