Madre de Deus
Maritime Museum (Lisbon)
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History | |
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Portugal | |
Name | Madre de Deus, Mãe de Deus and Madre de Dios |
Builder | Lisbon shipyards, Kingdom of Portugal |
In service | 1589 |
Out of service | 1592 |
Fate | Captured by the English |
General characteristics | |
Class and type | Carrack |
Displacement | 1600 tons |
Tons burthen | 900 tons |
Length | 30.48 m (100 ft) keel, 50.29 m (165 ft) (beakhead to stern)[2] |
Beam | 14.27 metres (46 ft 10 in) |
Draught | 9.45 m (31 ft)[α] |
Sail plan | Full-rigged, main mast is 36.88 m (121 ft) high |
Complement | 600–700 men |
Armament | At least 32 guns |
Madre de Deus (Mother of God; also called Mãe de Deus and Madre de Dios) was a
Description
Built in Lisbon in 1589, she was 50 metres (165 ft) in length, had a beam of 14 metres (47 ft), rated 1,600 tons, and could carry 900 tons of cargo.
Capture
In 1592, by virtue of the
On 3 August 1592,[6] (sources vary as to the date) a six-member English naval squadron fitted out by the Earl of Cumberland and Walter Raleigh set out to the Azores to intercept Spanish shipping from the New World when a Portuguese fleet came their way near Corvo Island.[β] The Roebuck under John Burgh finally took her after a fierce day-long battle near Flores Island.
Among these riches were chests filled with jewels and pearls, gold and silver coins,
There was also a document, printed at Macau in 1590, containing valuable information on the China and Japan trade; Hakluyt observes that it was "enclosed in a case of sweet Cedar wood, and lapped up almost an hundredfold in fine Calicut-cloth, as though it had been some incomparable jewel".
Aftermath
The carrack whilst anchored at
See also
- The Armada Service
- List of longest wooden ships
- Santa Catarina (ship), her capture by the Dutch increased VOC capital by more than 50%
- Santa Anna (1522 ship)
- São João Baptista (galleon)
- Cinco Chagas (1559)
- Djong (ship)
- Baochuan
Notes
- ^ The draught as stated by Hakluyt is 9.45 m (31 ft) in loaded weight and 7.92 m (26 ft) after some of the cargo has been transferred, but this is manifestly absurd considering that it would be deeper or equal with 1st rate ships of the 18th–19th centuries. Jordan noted a supposed frigate named Madre de Deus with 5.12 m (16.8 ft) draught, he noted that this ship's depth is unusually deeper when compared with other frigates and might be an error in transcription.[1]
- ^ The Gulf Stream and the Westerlies converge near the Azores, where ships coming from both areas would pass.
References
- ^ Jordan, Brian (2001). "Wrecked ships and ruined empires: an interpretation of the Santo António de Tanna's hull remains using archaeological and historical data". International Symposium on Archaeology of Medieval and Modern Ships of Iberian-Atlantic Tradition: 301–316. Retrieved 2022-03-26 – via Academia.edu.
- ^ Hakluyt, Richard (1904). The Principal Navigations, Voyages, Traffiques & Discoveries of the English Nation Made by Sea or Over-land to the Remote and Farthest Distant Quarters of the Earth at Any Time within the Compasse of these 1600 Yeeres. Vol. 7. Glasgow: J. MacLehose and Sons. pp. 116–117 – via Internet Archive.
- The Newberry Library. Archived from the originalon 2008-07-20. Retrieved 2014-03-11.
- ^ Hakluyt, Richard (1598). The Principal Navigations, Voyages, Traffiques and Discoveries of the English Nation. p. 570.
- ^ Whymper, Frederick (1877). The Sea: Its Stirring Story of Adventure, Peril, & Heroism. Volume 1 and 2. London, Paris, & New York: Cassell Petter & Galpin.
- OCLC 42039468.
- ISSN 0954-6650. Retrieved 2022-04-09.
Further reading
- ISBN 0-393-31888-5.
- .