English ship Defiance (1590) explained

Defiance^[1] was a 46-gun galleon of the English Tudor navy, launched in 1590.^[2]

She was rebuilt as a 40-gun great ship in 1615 by Phineas Pett I at Woolwich. Defiance was sold out of the navy in 1650.

References

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

Notes and References

1. The 'HMS' prefix was not used until the middle of the 18th century, but is sometimes applied retrospectively
2. Lavery, Ships of the Line vol. 1, p. 14.