''Triumph'' of 1562 was the first vessel of record to hold the name. She was a 60-gun English

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built in

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in 1561–62 and launched in October 1562, and once the flagship of Admiral Robert Blake. With a nominal burden of 1000 tons, she was the largest ship built in England during the reign of

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. ''Triumph'' was a square-rigged galleon of four masts, including two

lateen A lateen (from French ''latine'', meaning "Latin") or latin-rig is a triangular sail set on a long Yard (sailing) , yard mounted at an angle on the mast (sailing) , mast, and running in a fore-and-aft direction. The Settee (sail), settee can be ...

-rigged mizzenmasts. She served effectively as the flagship of Vice-Admiral

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during the battle of the

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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.

Notes

References

* R C Anderson. ''List of English Men of War 1509 - 1649.'' * Rif Winfield, ''British Warships in the Age of Sail 1603-1714: Design, Construction, Careers and Fates''. Seaforth Publishing, 2009. .

External links

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