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Tudor Warships (2): Elizabeth I's Navy (New Vanguard) ReviewAnyone with any interest in the history of ships and sailing must necessarily welcome any addition to the subject, particularly one which touches on the critical period between 1400 and 1600 AD, a time when the wallowing cog of the Middle Ages gave way to the caravel, the preferred "vessel of discovery" which opened the world to Europe and Europe to the world. From the caravel evolved the carrack and then the galleon and, ultimately, the "ship" as we currently know it. With those developments, Europe spread out to find, and ultimately to conquer the rest of the world. Regrettably, the number of books dedicated to that period and subject is so limited that it can be comfortably accommodated on a relatively small shelf. This is a slim volume and deserves a place on that shelf.
Of all the ship types which arose during that remarkable transitional period, perhaps the most fascinating - and certainly the most exuberantly picturesque - was the carrack, the "greate shippe", which was the Titanic, the Dreadnought, and the Nimitz of its time. It was also the carrack which was the pride, if not the mainstay, of the early Tudor "Navy Royale", and this volume covers, in reasonable, if hardly exhaustive detail, that ship type, with a modest amount of text devoted to the barques and galleasses and other vessel types which filled out Henry VIII's fleet. It also covers the development of the ship as a "gun platform" (as opposed to a floating castle), in which process the Tudor navy was foremost.
This is a fairly typical Osprey offering - a good, if limited discussion of the history, construction, and usages of the ships of the time, supplemented with copious illustrations and superb color artwork. Like all Osprey works, however, it is rather strictly circumscribed in terms of the subject covered. This is the fleet of Henry VII and Henry VIII, and not much else. That is not usually a major objection, because there are usually plenty of other and supplemental books and treatises (including others from Osprey) which flesh out the subject. Not so here, however, and this offering suffers from that lack. There is simply no historical context in which this book can take its place, no other works which document the development of the carrack and the other early Tudor ship types, no overview of the "great carracks" or the galleasses of Spain and Portugal and Genoa and Venice which provided the model for the Tudor navy, with the result that this book rather feels as tho' one is attempting to reconstruct an entire era from a couple of snapshots. As part of an entire series which documents the transition from cog to caravel to carrack to galleon, from clinker built to carvel hulled, from oars to sail, this book would be completely adequate. Standing essentially alone, as it does, that lack of supportive materials tends to emphasize the restricted scope of the subject.
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