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}}{{Infobox Ship Career | Hide header= | Ship country=England | Ship flag= | Ship name=Merhonour | Ship ordered= | Ship builder=Woolwich Dockyard | Ship laid down= | Ship launched=1590 | Ship acquired= | Ship commissioned= | Ship decommissioned= | Ship in service= | Ship out of service= | Ship renamed= | Ship struck= | Ship reinstated=1615 after rebuilding | Ship honours= | Ship captured= | Ship fate=Sold, 1650 | Ship status= | Ship notes=
}}{{Infobox ship characteristics | Hide header= | Header caption=as built [1] | Ship class= | Ship tons burthen=692 bm | 100|ft|m|abbr=on}} (keel) | 37|ft|m|abbr=on}} | Ship draught= | 17|ft|m|abbr=on}} | Ship complement=400 (by 1603) | Ship armament=- 39 guns:
- 4 × demi-cannon
- 15 × culverins
- 16 × demi-culverins
- 4 × sakers
- 2 × smaller guns
| Ship notes= }}{{Infobox ship characteristics | Hide header= | Header caption=after 1615 rebuild[1][1] | Ship class=40-gun royal ship | Ship tons burthen=865 bm | 112|ft|m|abbr=on}} (keel) | 38|ft|7|in|m|abbr=on}} | Ship draught= | 16|ft|5|in|m|abbr=on}} | Ship sail plan=Full-rigged ship | Ship complement=400 | Ship armament=- 40 guns
- 2 × cannon periers
- 6 × demi-cannon
- 12 × culverins
- 12 × demi-culverins
- 8 × sakers
- 4 × smaller guns
| Ship notes=
}} | Merhonour[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.[3] 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.[3]Merhonour was sold out of the navy in 1650.[4]Notes1. ^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.
2. ^The 'HMS' prefix was not used until the middle of the eighteenth century, but is sometimes applied retrospectively
3. ^1 2 3 {{cite book |last=Winfield |title=British Warships in the Age of Sail, 1603-1714: Design, Construction, Careers and Fates |pages=}}
4. ^Lavery, Ships of the Line vol.1, p158.
Citations{{reflist}}References{{ref begin}}- {{Colledge}}
- 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}}.
- {{cite book | last = Winfield| first = Rif|title = British Warships in the Age of Sail, 1603-1714: Design, Construction, Careers and Fates | publisher = Seaforth| year = 2008|isbn=}}
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