English ship Merhonour (1590) explained

Merhonour^[1] was a ship of the Tudor navy of England. It 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.^[2] It was then laid up at Chatham, only briefly returning to service in the 1630s. It was nevertheless considered to be one of the fastest ships in the Navy.^[2]

Merhonour was sold out of the navy in 1650.^[3]

References

• • Lavery, Brian (2003) The Ship of the Line - Volume 1: The development of the battlefleet 1650-1850. Conway Maritime Press. .
• Book: Winfield, Rif. British Warships in the Age of Sail, 1603-1714: Design, Construction, Careers and Fates . Seaforth. 2008.

Notes and References

1. The 'HMS' prefix was not used until the middle of the eighteenth century, but is sometimes applied retrospectively
2. Book: Winfield . British Warships in the Age of Sail, 1603-1714: Design, Construction, Careers and Fates .
3. Lavery, Ships of the Line vol.1, p158.