12 +
HISTORY OF MARINE ARCHITECTURE.
The ordinary expence of the service, subjoined to the list of the queen’s navy,taken in the same year with the victualling estimate, will also carry on, by compa-rison with others of a subsequent date, the investigation how the wages, or pay,both of officers, mariners, and artificers, have encreased since that time. Inregard to the navy itself, though its force * had received but little augmentation,those ships marked with an asterisk, being fifteen in number, had been launchedwithin the space of the last fourteen years, while on the other hand, there wereonly fourteen vessels left of that fleet which were in existence in 1556. Duringthe succeeding eight years, the Theseus, the Minion, the New Bark, the Wil-loughby, the Phenix, the Saker, the Hare, the Sun, the galleys Speedwell andEleanor, with the Makeshift and Post, were condemned as unfit for service.The Bonaventure, Dreadnought, Swiftsure, Bull, Tyger, Achates, and Hand-maid, were added, all of which, except the last, rendered very material in thewar which ten years afterwards took place with Spain, and at the memorabledefeat of what was so imprudently stiled the Invincible Armada.
COTTON MSS. E. ix. p. 122.
Certificate of the Ships, and other Vessels, with the Numbers appointedto remain therein in Harbour, as hereafter mentioned. (About 1570.)
The Queen’s Majesty’s Ships.
Men.
The Queen’s Majesty’s Ships.
Men.
The Triumph
-
21 *
The Willoughby
7 +
The White Bear
-
21 *
The Falcon
3t
The Elizabeth Jonas
-
21 *
The Phoenix
3 +
The Victory
-
18*
The Saker
3 +
The Mary Rose
-
* 3 *
The Bark of Bologne
3 +
The Hope
-
13 *
The Hare
3 +
The Philip and Mary
-
13 *
The Sun
3 +
The Lyon
-
13 *
The George
3 +
The Theseus, or Jesus
-
r 3 T
The Galley Speedwell
3*
The Minion
-
10 *
The Galley Tryeright
3 *
The Primrose
-
io-j-
The Galley Eleanor
3 *
The Antelope
-
IO"{*
The Makeshift
1 *
The Jennet
-
10-j-
The Post
1 *
The Swallow
-
10 "j*
•
The New Bark
-
7 +
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1 he Aid
-
7 *
* Owing to the neglect of the navy during the reign of queen Mary, through which many of theships nominally composing it were found, on the accession of queen Elizabeth, to be totally unfit forservice.