English ship Defiance (1590)

Defiance[Note 1] was a 46-gun galleon of the English Tudor navy, launched in 1590.

[2] She was rebuilt as a 40-gun great ship in 1615 by Phineas Pett I at Woolwich.

[1] Defiance was sold out of the navy in 1650.

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Defiance took part in the return of Prince Charles from Spain on 5 October 1623, by Hendrick Cornelisz Vroom at the National Maritime Museum
The Return of the Fleet, by Cornelis Vroom in the Royal Collection