English ship Hope (1559)

[Note 1] Following her first rebuilding, she was mentioned in the Paris archives as part of Elizabeth I's fleet in 1588 in A Statement of the two fleets possessed by the Queen of England, with numbers and names of the ships, in which she was listed as "400 tons, 17 pieces each side, four pieces at the prow and the same at the stern."

In October 1602 as part of Sir Robert Mansell's small fleet he intercepted and with the help of Dutch warships defeated six Spanish galleys in a battle in the Dover Straits.

In 1603-04 she was rebuilt a second time as a great ship (or second rank), and renamed Assurance.

Now of 451 tons, she carried 34 primary guns (2 cannon periers, 10 culverins, 12 demi-culverins and 10 sakers) and 4 smaller and more anti-personnel weapons (fowlers).

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