HMS Triumph (1562)

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Career (England)

Name:	HMS Triumph
Builder:	Deptford Dockyard
Launched:	1561
Fate:	Rebuilt 1598-99. Condemned, 1618
General characteristics as rebuilt 1598-99^[1]
Class and type:	55-gun great ship
Tons burthen:	760 tons
Length:	100 ft (30 m) (keel)
Beam:	40 ft (12 m)
Depth of hold:	19 ft (5.8 m)
Propulsion:	Sails
Sail plan:	Full rigged ship
Complement:	500
Armament:	55 guns - comprising 3 demi-cannon, 4 cannon periers, 19 culverins, 16 demi-culverins and 13 sakers. Also 4 smaller (fowlers).

Triumph was the first vessel of record to hold the name. She was a 60-gun English galleon built in Deptford in 1561-62 AD and launched in October 1562. Since she was built and served prior to the English Restoration of 1660, she did not actually carry the 'HMS' prefix.

With a nominal burden of 1000 tons, she was the largest ship built in England during the reign of Queen Elizabeth I. Triumph was a square-rigged galleon of four masts, including two lateen-rigged mizzenmasts. The Triumph served effectively as the flagship of Vice-Admiral Martin Frobisher during the battle of the Spanish Armada in 1588. In 1595-96 she was rebuilt as a race-built galleon, but at the time of the Commission of Enquiry in 1618 she was condemned and broken up.