John Hawkins, now about fifty-seven, retires in …
Years: 1589 - 1589
John Hawkins, now about fifty-seven, retires in 1589 from his post as Treasurer and comptroller of the Royal Navy.
Having made important improvements in ship construction and rigging, he is less well known for his inventiveness as a shipwright, but it had been his idea to add to the caulker's work by the finishing touch of sheathing the underside of his ships with a skin of nailed elm planks sealed with a combination of pitch and hair smeared over the bottom timbers, as a protection against the worms which attack a ship in tropical seas.
Hawkins has also introduced detachable topmasts that can be hoisted and used in good weather and stowed in heavy seas.
Masts are more forward, and sails flatter.
His ships are longer and the forecastle and sterncastle have been greatly reduced in size.
The Ark Royal (1587), by Claes Janszoon Visscher (Claes Jansz Visscher), (1587-1652) The galleon 'Ark Raleigh' was built at Deptford for Sir Walter Raleigh in 1587. The following year she was commissioned into the Royal Navy and re-named the 'Ark Royal'. She was the Lord High Admiral's flagship against the Spanish Armada in 1588. The vessel was 100 feet long on the keel, had a beam of 37 feet and carried 44 guns. Source: National Maritime Museum, London
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Years: 1589 - 1589
The Ark Royal (1587), by Claes Janszoon Visscher (Claes Jansz Visscher), (1587-1652) The galleon 'Ark Raleigh' was built at Deptford for Sir Walter Raleigh in 1587. The following year she was commissioned into the Royal Navy and re-named the 'Ark Royal'. She was the Lord High Admiral's flagship against the Spanish Armada in 1588. The vessel was 100 feet long on the keel, had a beam of 37 feet and carried 44 guns. Source: National Maritime Museum, London
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