List of Early Warships of The English Navy - List of English Warships Before 1485

List of English Warships Before 1485

The following list is based extensively upon that provided in Michael Oppenheim's History of the Administration of the Royal Navy and in Volume 1 of William Laird Clowes's The Royal Navy: A History from the Earliest Times to 1900.

Note that almost every vessel listed had the words "of the Tower" (or "de la Tour" when inscribed in French, still an official language at the time) affixed to its name. This affix was simply the equivalent of the modern prefix "HMS" and is omitted below.
Note also that the number of guns quoted in most sources comprised almost entirely small(ish) iron weapons created from wrought material bound into barrels by iron hoops. These were exclusively anti-personnel weaponry; very few heavy weapons were carried, and even these were rarely used for ship-to-ship fire.
  • Trinity - Dismantled c. 1409, materials used for Trinity Royal
  • Goodgrace (c. 1400)
  • Le Carake (ex-Genoese Sancta Maria & Sancta Brigida, captured 1409)
  • Christopher 5 (1410/12) - Holk (similar to a cog)
  • Trinity Royal (1416)
  • Jesus (c. 1416)
  • George (ex-Genoese carrack ?, captured 1416) - To Venice 1424
  • Marie Hampton (ex-Genoese carrack ?, captured 1416)
  • Marie Sandwich (ex-Genoese carrack ?, captured 1416)
  • Agase (ex-Genoese carrack ?, captured 1416) - Wrecked on mudflats c. 1418
  • Andrew (ex-Genoese carrack Galeas Negre, captured 1417)
  • Peter (ex-Genoese carrack ?, captured 1417)
  • Paul (ex-Genoese carrack Vivande, captured 1417)
  • Christopher Spayne (ex-Genoese Pynele ??, captured 1417) - Sold 1423
  • Marie Spayne (ex-Spanish ?, captured 1417)
  • Holigost Spayne (ex-Spanish Santa Clara, captured 1417)
  • Grace Dieu (1418) - Lightning and fire, 1439
  • Grace Dieu (1449) - rebuilt 1473, BU c. 1487
  • Peter - Abandoned 1462
  • Mary 48
  • George
  • Edward Howard (c. 1466, ex-Portuguese ?, captured 1479)
  • Governor (1485)

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