- Construction
- Naval service
- Notes
- References
- External links
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}}{{Infobox ship career | Hide header= | Ship country=England | Ship flag= | Ship name=Elizabeth Jonas | Ship ordered= | Ship builder=Peter Pett, Woolwich Dockyard | Ship laid down=1557 | Ship launched=3 July 1559 | Ship acquired= | Ship commissioned= | Ship decommissioned= | Ship in service= | Ship out of service=*1585-1586 | Ship renamed= | Ship struck= | Ship reinstated= | Ship honours= | Ship captured= | Ship fate=Rebuilt 1597-98. Condemned and sold, 1618 | Ship status= | Ship notes=
}}{{Infobox ship characteristics | Hide header= | Header caption=as built 1557-59 | Ship class= | Ship tons burthen=740 bm | Ship length= | Ship beam= | Ship draught= | Ship hold depth= | Ship sail plan=Full rigged ship | Ship complement= | Ship armament=42 guns | Ship notes=
}}{{Infobox ship characteristics | Hide header= | Header caption=as rebuilt from 1598 | Ship class=55-gun Royal Ship | Ship tons burthen=684 bm | 100|ft|m|abbr=on}} (keel) | 38|ft|m|abbr=on}} | Ship draught= | 18|ft|m|abbr=on}} | Ship sail plan=Full rigged ship | Ship complement=500 (340 sailors, 40 gunners, 120 soldiers) | Ship armament=*3 cannons- 2 demi-cannons
- 18 culverins
- 13 demi-culverins
- 19 sakers
- 3 veuglaires
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}} | The Elizabeth Jonas of 1559 was the first large English galleon, built in Woolwich Dockyard from 1557 and launched in July 1559. ConstructionThe vessel's keel was laid in 1557, for a ship of 800 tons burthen to replace Henry VIII's prestige warship, the Henry Grace à Dieu, which had been destroyed by fire in 1553.[1] Originally intended to be named Edward after Edward VI of England, she was renamed when Elizabeth I came to the throne.[2] She was a square-rigged galleon of four masts, including two lateen-rigged mizzenmasts. Naval serviceElizabeth Jonas served effectively under the command of Sir Robert Southwell during the battle of the Spanish Armada in 1588. In 1597-98 she was rebuilt as a razee galleon. In the early seventeenth century she was listed as one of the Navy's Ships Royal, denoting the largest and most prestigious vessels in the fleet. A 1618 commission of enquiry confirmed the designation, but found that years of inactivity had left her entirely unserviceable. Later that year she was broken up for scrap at Woolwich Dockyard.[1] Notes1. ^1 Winfield 201, p. 8
2. ^Winfield 2009, p. xii
References- R C Anderson, List of English Men of War 1509 - 1649
- Rif Winfield, British Warships in the Age of Sail 1603-1714: Design, Construction, Careers and Fates. Seaforth Publishing, 2009. {{ISBN|978-1-84832-040-6}}.
- {{cite book|last=Winfield|first=Rif|title=First Rate: The Greatest Warships of the Age of Sail|publisher=Naval Institute Press|location=Annapolis, Maryland|year=2010|isbn=9781591142645}}
External links- Warship design site (site appears to be gone!)
- https://threedecks.org/index.php?display_type=show_ship&id=4068
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