. Every boy's book of railways and steamships . RAILWAY INVICTA STEAMING 22+ KNOTS AN HOUR. DECKS OF EMPRESS. CHAPTER XXIISTEAM IN THE NAVY IN an earlier chapter we read of the beginningsof the British Navy, but a regular standingNavy was not established until the year1488, when the Great Harry, at a cost of£15,000, was built and manned solely for theservice of the king. A quarter of a century laterHenry VIII. refused to view naval ships as simplytransports for the conveyance of land forces, andhe floated the Harry Grace a Dieu, a three-masted double-decked vessel of 1500

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. Every boy's book of railways and steamships . RAILWAY INVICTA STEAMING 22+ KNOTS AN HOUR. DECKS OF EMPRESS. CHAPTER XXIISTEAM IN THE NAVY IN an earlier chapter we read of the beginningsof the British Navy, but a regular standingNavy was not established until the year1488, when the Great Harry, at a cost of£15,000, was built and manned solely for theservice of the king. A quarter of a century laterHenry VIII. refused to view naval ships as simplytransports for the conveyance of land forces, andhe floated the Harry Grace a Dieu, a three-masted double-decked vessel of 1500 tons, carry-ing 62 guns, which were fired through port-holes, asystem hitherto unknown. Three reigns later theSpanish Armada, a fleet of 132 ships aggregating60,000 tons, sailed up the Channel to annihilate191 English ships, many of them small, and alto-gether only totalling half the Spanish Howard of Effingham, with Drake, Hawkins,Raleigh, Grenville, and other heroes of many adaring exploit in the Spanish main, speedily putan en

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