In 1599 she was in the Western Channel under George Fenner, while in 1601 under Sir Henry Palmer she was on the Thames. In 1596, with Sir Alexander Clifford as her captain, she was part of the Anglo-Dutch fleet which captured Cadiz. She was rebuilt for the first time in 1592. Under George Beeston she was part of the English fleet which harassed most of the Spanish Armada in 1588. Under Captain Thomas Fenner, she was part of Drake's fleet which 'singed the King of Spain's Beard' with the raid on Cadiz in Spring 1587. These 'marvels of marine design' could reputedly 'run circles around the clumsier Spanish competition.' ĭreadnought took part in many of the naval engagements between Britain and Spain in the late 16th and early 17th centuries.

When John Hawkins became Treasurer of the Navy in 1577, he had sailed all over the world, and his ideas contributed to the production of a new race-built series of galleons-of which Dreadnought was the second, following Foresight of 1570-without the high forecastle and aftcastle prevalent in earlier galleons. Like HMS Dreadnought of 1906, she was a radical innovation over contemporary ships. General characteristics after 1614 rebuild Ģ9 principal guns of various weights of shot, plus 4 smaller anti-personnel gunsĭreadnought was a 41-gun galleon of the Tudor navy, built by Mathew Baker and launched in 1573. General characteristics after 1592 rebuild For other ships with the same name, see HMS Dreadnought.

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