Warspite (also spelled Warspight) was a great ship (later classed as a second rate) of the English Tudor navy.

[Note 1] The vessel was built at Deptford Dockyard by the master shipwright Edward Stevens and launched about 1 March 1596.

[1] She carried a crew of 300 when at sea, of whom 190 were classed as "mariners", manning the guns and fighting the ship; 80 as "sailors", working the sails and ancestors of present-day seamen and 30 "gunners", the armament specialists.

She took part in the failed Islands Voyage hoping to intercept the Spanish treasure fleet in which Walter Raleigh sailed as Vice Admiral and commanded by Gorges.

On its return to England it faced the Spanish Armada of 1597 which failed due to storms and the safe passage of the English fleet.