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On 19th July 1545, while Henry VIII watched, the Mary Rose sank very quickly, in the piece of water between Portsmouth and the Isle of Wight called the Solent. The Mary Rose was part of an English fleet trying to stop the French ships landing on the Isle of Wight, but sank before firing a single shotc
Here is a shot clip on the Mary Rose
While Henry VIII had launched the Royal Navy, his successors King Edward VI and Queen Mary I had ignored it and it was little more than a system of coastal defense.
Elizabeth thought naval strength was a very good thing.
Elizabeth I, in 1559 had 39 ships, and there were plans to build another 30, By the 1580s,Spain had reached the breaking point, In 1588, Philip II of Spain launched the Spanish Armada against England, but after a running battle lasting over a week, the Armada was defeated.
Edward VI and Mary I added little new to their father's navy. Mary maintained the building program, the navy performed outstandingly but it did not prevent the loss of Calais in the war with France of 1557 to 1559.
The invention of gunports meant that guns could be carried much lower down in the ship, so that it was much more stable, and less likely to tip over. The first ship to carry the new guns and fight in this way was the Mary Rose.