Archive Results For: Tudors
A Battle Ship of the Renaissance
The article discusses an image of a ship carved in a bench-end in the church of Bishop’s Lydeard in Somerset. The author advances his arguments for considering the ship to be a vessel from the reign of Henry V11. Based on this, the author highlights various features of the picture that show how it embodies […] Read More
Filed under: Tudors | Other (location)
Subjects include: Shipbuilding & Design
The Lord Admiral’s Whistle
The article provides a discussion of the evidence supporting the contention that a golden whistle represented a badge of the office of Lord Admiral. The author summarises what his research has revealed about the uses and owners of such whistles. It is suggested that any practical use, if any, may have become largely obsolete […] Read More
Filed under: Tudors | English Channel
Subjects include: Historic Vessels, Museums & Restoration
Document: Seamen’s Clothes Part III
The proposal that ships should carry clothes for distribution is countered by evidence that it did not seem to have materialised. Read More
Filed under: Tudors | Other (location)
Subjects include: Administration | Manpower & Life at Sea
The Ark Royal
A comparison of the painted panel, formerly in Canterbury Cathedral, with the Ark Royal print, shows that the rig of these two ships is practically the same, the only important difference lying in the fact that in the Ark Royal the furled spritsail is lowered into the beak, while it remains standing out on the […] Read More
Filed under: Tudors | Other (Early Modern) | Other (Eighteenth C) | Other (location)
Subjects include: Art & Music | Navies | Shipbuilding & Design
Document: Disabled Mariners after the Armada
The letter signed by Charles, Lord Howard in August 1590 requests that all those in authority within the realm provide alms to or allow to beg, William Browne, a gunner in one of His Majesty’s ships, who was severely wounded in the war with Spain and as a result was permanently maimed. Read More
Filed under: Tudors | The Armada | Other (location)
Subjects include: Navies
Wyngaerde’s Map of London
The earliest map of London that has come down to our time is Wyngaerde’s panorama, dating from between 1543 and 1550. It provides a bird’s-eye view of the whole city, together with Westminster and Southwark, from above Southwark High Street. In addition to the many buildings shown are a large number of sailing vessels. More […] Read More
Filed under: Tudors | Internal Waterways
Subjects include: Art & Music
Note: Dictionary Words
Du Boulay provides a number of nautical words taken from a “Collection of Voyages and Travels”, which was published in 1745. The words had been used by Sir Francis Drake in his diary of his voyage to the Pacific in 1577 and from the records of the first Dutch vessels to sail to the East […] Read More
Filed under: Tudors | Francis Drake | Indian Ocean | Pacific
Subjects include: Miscellaneous
Note: Top Men
From contemporary sources Morton Nance seeks to explain how the size of Tudor trading vessels could be differentiated by the use of the term ‘topmen’. These were ships of between 40 and 100 tons burthen and carried a topsail above the main sail. At St Ives this additional sail carried a financial penalty when loading […] Read More
Filed under: Atlantic | Tudors
Subjects include: Merchant Marines | Shipbuilding & Design
Note: Dictionary Words
Du Boulay provides a number of nautical words taken from a “Collection of Voyages and Travels”, which was published in 1745. The words had been used by Sir Francis Drake in his diary of his voyage to the Pacific in 1577 and from the records of the first Dutch vessels to sail to the East […] Read More
Filed under: Tudors | Pacific
Subjects include: Miscellaneous
Note: Top Men
From contemporary sources Morton Nance seeks to explain how the size of Tudor trading vessels could be differentiated by the use of the term ‘topmen’. These were ships of between 40 and 100 tons burthen and carried a topsail above the main sail. At St Ives this additional sail carried a financial penalty when loading […] Read More
Filed under: Atlantic | Tudors
Subjects include: Merchant Marines | Shipbuilding & Design