English ship White Bear (1563)

History

England
Name:	White Bear
Builder:	Woolwich Dockyard
Launched:	1564
Fate:	Sold, 1629
General characteristics as built
Tons burthen:	729 tons
General characteristics after 1598-1599 rebuild^[1]
Class and type:	57-gun royal ship
Tons burthen:	732 tons (744 tonnes) Tons and tonnage 915 tons (930 tonnes)
Length:	110 ft (34 m) (keel)
Beam:	37 ft (11 m)
Depth of hold:	18 ft (5.5 m)
Sail plan:	Full-rigged ship
Complement:	500
Armament:	57 guns of various weights of shot (1603), comprising 2 cannon, 6 demi-cannon, 21 culverins, 16 demi-culverins and 12 sakers

White Bear^{[Note 1]} was a 40-gun ship of the English Tudor navy, launched in 1564. She was repaired in 1585–86 at Woolwich, and recommissioned under Lord Howard of Effingham. In 1588 she took part in the actions against the Spanish Armada, under the command of Lord Edmund Sheffield. She was rebuilt in 1599 as a 57-gun royal ship.^[1]

The White Bear remained in service until 1627, when she was deemed unserviceable, and was sold out of the navy at Rochester on 12 June 1629.

The timbers from the White Bear were used to rebuild a burned-down alehouse on the Old Packhorse track running between Halifax and Leeds (now known as The Old White Beare in the village of Norwood Green near Halifax).

Notes

↑ The "HMS" prefix was not used until the middle of the 18th century, but is sometimes applied retrospectively

References

Citations

1 2 Lavery, Ships of the Line, vol. 1, p. 158.

Bibliography

Lavery, Brian (2003) The Ship of the Line - Volume 1: The development of the battlefleet 1650-1850. Conway Maritime Press. ISBN 0-85177-252-8.
Colledge, J. J.; Warlow, Ben (2006) [1969]. Ships of the Royal Navy: The Complete Record of all Fighting Ships of the Royal Navy (Rev. ed.). London: Chatham Publishing. ISBN 978-1-86176-281-8. OCLC 67375475.
Winfield, Rif (2009) British Warships in the Age of Sail 1603-1714: Design, Construction, Careers and Fate. Seaforth Publishing. ISBN 978-1-84832-040-6.
http://www.oldwhitebeare.com/History.html

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