Henry Grace à Dieu


 Henry Grace à Dieu also known as Great Harry was an English carrack or "great ship" of the King's Fleet. In her day she was the largest warship in the world.

She was built between 1512 and 1514, and was 165 feet (50.29 m) long, measuring 1,000 tons.

Overall, she was used more as a diplomatic vessel, including taking Henry VIII to the summit with Francis I of France at the Field of the Cloth of Gold in 1520.

She was too top heavy and performed so badly that she was completely remodeled in 1536. After his father's death Edward VI renamed her after himself, she was destroyed in an accidental fire in 1553.

Sources:
The Oxford Companion to Ships and the Sea, eds. I. C. B. Dear and Peter Kemp
The Tudor Navy, Conway Maritime, Arthur Nelson, p.42

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