English ship Foresight (1570)

For other ships with the same name, see HMS Foresight.

Foresight^{[Note 1]} was a 28-gun galleon of the English Tudor navy, built by Mathew Baker at Deptford Dockyard and launched in 1570. It was a radical innovation over contemporary ships. 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 the Foresight was the first - without the high fore- and after-castles prevalent in earlier galleons; these "marvels of marine design" could reputedly "run circles around the clumsier Spanish competition."^[1] As such, the Foresight was part of the English fleet which destroyed most of the Spanish Armada in 1588.

History
England
Name	Foresight
Builder	Deptford Dockyard
Launched	1570
Fate	Broken up, 1604
Notes	Captain Christopher Baker commanded the ship Foresight for the English Royal Fleet in the 1588 battle against the Spanish Armada.
General characteristics as built
Class & type	41-gun galleon
Tons burthen	294 tons
Length	78 ft (24 m)(keel)
Beam	27 ft (8.2 m)
Depth of hold	14 ft (4.3 m)
Complement	160
Armament	28 guns of various weights of shot

She was broken up in 1604.

Notes

1. The 'HMS' prefix was not used until the middle of the 18th century, but is sometimes applied retrospectively