HMS Merhonour (1590)

Career (England)
Name:	Merhonour
Builder:	Woolwich Dockyard
Launched:	1590
Reinstated:	1615 after rebuilding
Fate:	Sold, 1650
General characteristics as built
Length:	100 ft (30 m) (keel)
Beam:	37 ft (11 m)
Depth of hold:	17 ft (5.2 m)
Propulsion:	Sails
Complement:	400 (by 1603)
Armament:	39 guns: 4 x demi-cannon 15 x culverins 16 x demi-culverins 4 x sakers 2 x smaller guns
General characteristics after 1615 rebuild
Class and type:	40-gun Royal Ship
Tons burthen:	800 tons (812.8 tonnes)
Length:	112 ft (34 m) (keel)
Beam:	38 ft 7 in (11.76 m)
Depth of hold:	16 ft 5 in (5.00 m)
Propulsion:	Sails
Sail plan:	Full rigged ship
Complement:	400
Armament:	40 guns 2 x cannon periers 6 x demi-cannon 12 x culverins 12 x demi-culverins 8 x sakers 4 x smaller guns

Merhonour was a ship of the Navy Royal 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. 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.

Merhonour was sold out of the navy in 1650.

References

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• Winfield, Rif (2008). British Warships in the Age of Sail, 1603-1714: Design, Construction, Careers and Fates. Seaforth.