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    Ark Royal was an English galleon, originally ordered for Sir Walter Raleigh and later purchased by the crown for service in the Tudor navy. She was used...
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  • Royal Navy have borne the name HMS Ark Royal: Ark Royal (1587), the flagship of the English fleet during the Spanish Armada campaign of 1588 HMS Ark Royal (1914)...
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    HMS Ark Royal was a light aircraft carrier and former flagship of the Royal Navy. She was the third and final vessel of the Invincible class. She was...
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    HMS Ark Royal (pennant number 91) was an aircraft carrier of the Royal Navy that was operated during the Second World War. Designed in 1934 to fit the...
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    HMS Ark Royal was the first ship designed and built as a seaplane carrier. She was purchased by the Royal Navy in 1914 shortly after her keel had been...
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  • In the Royal Navy, the fleet flagship is, in practice, the warship designated as the fleet's most prestigious vessel, currently HMS Queen Elizabeth. In...
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    List of early warships of the English navy (category Lists of Royal Navy ships by type)
    Rebuilt 1617 Vanguard 40 (built 1586) – Rebuilt 1615 Ark Royal 44 (built 1587) – Built 1587 as the Ark Ralegh as a private venture for Sir Walter Ralegh...
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    was for the Lord Admiral of England Sir Lord Howard of Effingham on HMS Ark Royal as Commander-in-Chief of the English Fleet against the Spanish Armada...
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    Walter Raleigh (category English MPs 1586–1587)
    received Exchequer tallies but no money. As a result, the ship was renamed Ark Royal. In 1586 one of Raleigh's expeditions caught Spanish explorer Pedro Sarmiento...
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  • March: The Millwall Dock opens 25 April: HMS Repulse, the last wooden battleship constructed for the Royal Navy, is launched as an ironclad at Woolwich...
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