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some speciall service on the Islands and maine of 

 the West Indies,' but died off Porto Rico on the 

 12th November. The portrait reproduced is taken 

 from the copy of Holland's Heroologia in the British 

 Museum. 



The Jesus of Lubeck, 416 



The ' Jesus of Lubeck ' vv^as a ship of 700 tons. She was 

 bought by Henry VIII. for his Navy from the 

 Merchants of Lubeck in 1544. On the accession 

 of Elizabeth, the * Jesus' was condemned, but was 

 afterwards retained, and in 1564 was, in accordance 

 with the custom of the times, lent to Sir John 

 Hawkins for a voyage to Guinea (Hakluyt, Vol. 

 VI., p. 263). In 1567 she was again lent to 

 Hawkins for his voyage to the West Indies by way 

 of Guinea. On the 12th August, 1568, Hawkins' 

 fleet was caught by * an extreme storme which con- 

 tinued by the space of foure days, which so beat 

 the Jesus, that we cut downe all her higher build- 

 ings, her rudder also was sore shaken, and withall 

 was in so extreme a leake that we were rather upon 

 the point to leave her then to keepe her any longer.' 

 On the 1 6th September the fleet entered San Juan 

 d'Ulloa ; on the 23rd the fight with the Spaniards 

 took place during which the * Jesus' was abandoned. 

 She was the first of only two ships of Elizabeth's 

 Navy to fall into Spanish hands, the other being Sir 

 Richard Grenville's ^ Revenge.' The armament of 

 the * Jesus ' was as follows: Cannons (50 or 60 

 pounders), 2 ; culverins (long 1 8 pounders), 2 ; 

 demi-culverins (long 9 pounders), 8 ; sacres (long 5 

 pounders), 8 ; falcons (3 pounders), 2. Her breach- 

 loading pieces were: slings, 2; fowlers, 10; bases, 

 30 (Corbett, Drake and the Tudor Navy, Vol. I., 

 p. 114 iiote). The illustrations of the * Jesus ' and 

 the * Minion ' are taken from the original water- 

 colour paintings by Anthony Anthony in the Pepys 



