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no more than a father differs from his son. One famous Tudor vessel deserves some special notice, not because of her excellence but because of her defects. The _Henry Grace a Dieu,_ or _Great Harry_ as she was generally called, launched in 1514, was Henry's own flagship on his way to the Field of the Cloth of Gold in 1520. She had a gala suit of sails and pennants, all made of damasked cloth of gold. Her quarters, sides, and tops were emblazoned with heraldic targets. Court artists painted her to show His Majesty on board wearing cloth of gold, edged with the royal ermine; as well as bright crimson jacket, sleeves, and breeches, with a long white feather in his cap. Doubtless, too, His Majesty of France paid her all the proper compliments; while every man who was then what reporters are to-day talked her up to the top of his bent. No single vessel ever had greater publicity till the famous first _Dreadnought_ of our own day appeared in the British navy nearly four hundred years later. But the much advertised _Great Harry_ was not a mighty prototype of a world-wide-copied class of battleships like the modern _Dreadnought_. With her lavish decorations, her towering superstructures fore and aft, and her general aping of a floating castle, she was the wonder of all the landsmen in her own age, as she has been the delight of picturesque historians ever since. But she marked no advance in naval architecture, rather the reverse. She was the last great English ship of medieval times. Twenty-five years after the Field of the Cloth of Gold, Henry was commanding another English fleet, the first of modern times, and therefore one in which the out-of-date _Great Harry_ had no proper place at all. She was absurdly top-hampered and over-gunned. And, for all her thousand tons, she must have bucketed about in the chops of the Channel with the same sort of hobby-horse, see-sawing pitch that bothered Captain Concas in 1893 when sailing an exact reproduction of Columbus's flagship, the _Santa Maria_, across the North Atlantic to the great World's Fair at Chicago. In her own day the galleon was the 'great ship,' 'capital ship,' 'ship-of-the-line-of-battle,' or 'battleship' on which the main fight turned. But just as our modern fleets require three principal kinds of vessels--battleships, cruisers, and 'mosquito' craft--so did the fleets of Henry and Elizabeth. The galleon did the same work as the old three-decker of Nelson's time or th
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