Foresight[Note 1] was a 28-gun galleon of the English Tudor navy, built by Mathew Baker at Deptford Dockyard and launched in 1570. It was a radical innovation over contemporary ships. When John Hawkins became Treasurer of the Navy in 1577, he had sailed all over the world, and his ideas contributed to the production of a new race-built series of galleons - of which the Foresight was the first - without the high fore- and after-castles prevalent in earlier galleons; these "marvels of marine design" could reputedly "run circles around the clumsier Spanish competition."[1] As such, the Foresight was part of the English fleet which destroyed most of the Spanish Armada in 1588.
She was broken up in 1604.
Notes
- ^ The 'HMS' prefix was not used until the middle of the 18th century, but is sometimes applied retrospectively
Citations
- ^ Boot, Max (2006). War Made New. p. 37. ISBN 978-1-59240-315-8.
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