. Old England : a pictorial museum of regal, ecclesiastical, baronial, municipal, and popular antiquities . service generally. But that politic sovereign saw the importanceof a navy of higher warlike capacities, and so commenced theroyal navy of England by the erection of the Great Harry. Hisson Henry VIII. continued what his father had begun : his directmotive, however, for so doing being to emulate Francis I., whohad built the Caracon, a vessel of one thousand tons burden, andcarrying one hundred guns ; so our king must have his HenriGrace-a-Dieu (Fig. 1432) of equal burden, but carrying twe
. Old England : a pictorial museum of regal, ecclesiastical, baronial, municipal, and popular antiquities . service generally. But that politic sovereign saw the importanceof a navy of higher warlike capacities, and so commenced theroyal navy of England by the erection of the Great Harry. Hisson Henry VIII. continued what his father had begun : his directmotive, however, for so doing being to emulate Francis I., whohad built the Caracon, a vessel of one thousand tons burden, andcarrying one hundred guns ; so our king must have his HenriGrace-a-Dieu (Fig. 1432) of equal burden, but carrying twenty-two guns more. We should strangely err if we were to liken thisvessel to one of our one hundred and twenty gun ships. HenriGrace-a-Dieu was built more for show than use ; with theexception of thirteen, her guns were of the smallest calibre. Shesteered badly, nolled incessantly, and so, after making a great noise in the European world, was disarmed and left to French vessel was burnt by accident at Havre. The impulsegiven to the movement for the creation of a royal navy was not, C 2.
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