HMS ELIZABETH JONAS (1559)
LAMBERT M. SURHONE, MIRIAM T. TIMPLEDON, SUSAN F. MARSEKEN
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The Elizabeth Jonas of 1559 was the first large English galleon, built in Deptford from 1557 and launched in July 1559.
With a nominal burden of 800 tons, she was the largest ship built in England since Henry VIII's prestige warship, the Henry Grace a Dieu.
She was ordered under the reign of Queen Mary I and initially named Edward, after her late brother, but was renamed when Elizabeth I came to the throne.
