HMS_Red_Lion_(1609)

English ship <i>Lion</i> (1557)

English ship Lion (1557)

English full-rigged ship, built 1557

For other ships with the same name, see HMS Lion.

Golden Lion (also sometimes Red Lion)[Note 1] was a ship of the English Tudor navy, launched in 1557. She was rebuilt for the first time in 1582.

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By the time of her second rebuild, in 1609, she was known as Lion. She was rebuilt at Deptford as a Great ship of 38 guns.[1]

In 1613 The Lion was appointed to escort Princess Elizabeth, daughter of James VI and I, and Frederick V of the Palatinate sailing in The Prince Royal from Margate to Ostend.[4]

In 1640 she was rebuilt again, this time at Woolwich.[2] She was rebuilt for a final time at Chatham in 1658, as a 48-gun third rate ship of the line.[3] By 1677 Lion was mounting 60 guns.[3]

She was sold out of the navy in 1698.[3]

Notes

  1. [N 1]
    The 'HMS' prefix was not used until the middle of the Eighteenth Century, but is sometimes applied retrospectively

Citations

  1. [1]
    Lavery, Ships of the Line vol.1, p158.
  2. [2]
    Lavery, Ships of the Line vol.1, p159.
  3. [3]
    Lavery, Ships of the Line vol.1, p160.
  4. [4]
    Foedera, 7 (The Hague, 1739), p. 189

References

  • Lavery, Brian (2003) The Ship of the Line - Volume 1: The development of the battlefleet 1650-1850. Conway Maritime Press. ISBN 0-85177-252-8.


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