English ship Merhonour (1590)

History

England
Name:	Merhonour
Builder:	Woolwich Dockyard
Launched:	1590
Reinstated:	1615 after rebuilding
Fate:	Sold, 1650
General characteristics as built ^[1]
Tons burthen:	692 bm
Length:	100 ft (30 m) (keel)
Beam:	37 ft (11 m)
Depth of hold:	17 ft (5.2 m)
Complement:	400 (by 1603)
Armament:	39 guns: 4 × demi-cannon 15 × culverins 16 × demi-culverins 4 × sakers 2 × smaller guns
General characteristics after 1615 rebuild^{[Note 1]}^[1]
Class and type:	40-gun royal ship
Tons burthen:	865 bm
Length:	112 ft (34 m) (keel)
Beam:	38 ft 7 in (11.76 m)
Depth of hold:	16 ft 5 in (5.00 m)
Sail plan:	Full-rigged ship
Complement:	400
Armament:	40 guns 2 × cannon periers 6 × demi-cannon 12 × culverins 12 × demi-culverins 8 × sakers 4 × smaller guns

Merhonour^{[Note 2]} was a ship of the Tudor navy of England. She was built in 1590 by Mathew Baker at Woolwich Dockyard, and was rebuilt by Phineas Pett I at Woolwich between 1612 and 1615, being relaunched on 6 March 1615 as a 40-gun royal ship.^[1] She was then laid up at Chatham, only briefly returning to service in the 1630s. She was nevertheless considered to be one of the fastest ships in the Navy.^[1]

Merhonour was sold out of the navy in 1650.^[2]

Notes

↑ Lavery's details are challenged by both Colledge, and Winfield. Both describe a 1590 build date at Woolwich, while Winfield describes in detail the armament and dimensions both as launched and after the 1615 rebuild.
↑ The 'HMS' prefix was not used until the middle of the eighteenth century, but is sometimes applied retrospectively

Citations

1 2 3 4 Winfield. British Warships in the Age of Sail, 1603-1714: Design, Construction, Careers and Fates.
↑ Lavery, Ships of the Line vol.1, p158.

References

Colledge, J. J.; Warlow, Ben (2006) [1969]. Ships of the Royal Navy: The Complete Record of all Fighting Ships of the Royal Navy (Rev. ed.). London: Chatham Publishing. ISBN 978-1-86176-281-8. OCLC 67375475.
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.
Winfield, Rif (2008). British Warships in the Age of Sail, 1603-1714: Design, Construction, Careers and Fates. Seaforth.

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