Peter Pomegranate was a warship of the English Tudor navy, built in 1510. Her name most likely was in honour of Saint Peter and the badge of Queen Catherine of Aragon, a pomegranate.Childs, David, The Warship Mary Rose: The Life and Times of King Henry VIII's Flagship Chatham Publishing, London. 2007. , p. 17; Marsden, Peter (editor), Your Noblest Shippe: Anatomy of a Tudor Warship. The Archaeology of the Mary Rose, Volume 2. The Mary Rose Trust, Portsmouth. 2009. , pp. 5, 379
History She had a tonnage of 400John Gough Nichols, Chronicle of Calais (London: Camden Society, 1846), p. 67. or 450 when first built. In 1536 she was rebuilt and enlarged to a tonnage of 600. At that date the name was shortened to Peter (Catherine had fallen out of grace; she died in 1536). The ship's fate is not recorded, but she was last mentioned in records in 1558. Peter Pomegranate was a contemporary of the Mary Rose and, commanded by John Clere, took part in the Battle of the Solent on 19 July 1545 when the Mary Rose was lost.C. S. Knighton & David Loades, Navy of Edward VI and Mary I (Navy Records Society, 2011), p. 535.
Named in full in the roster as "Peter Pomgarnarde", she joined Edward Clinton's invasion fleet against Scotland in August 1547.Calendar of State Papers Scotland, vol. 1 (1898), 12, no. 29. According to an inventory of 1547, the rebuilt Peter had 185 sailors, 185 soldiers, and 30 gunners. Her armaments included; 2 brass demi-cannons; 2 brass culverins; 4 brass demi-culverins; 4 brass sakers; an iron culverin; 3 iron sakers; 9 iron port pieces; 37 iron bases; and 11 hagbuts. There were also 259 yew bows, 160 bills; and 160 Moorish pikes.Starkey, David, ed., Inventory of Henry VIII, vol 1, Society of Antiquaries (1998), nos. 7165, 7252-7273.
See also Flor de la Mar Jong (ship) Great Michael Mary Rose São João Baptista (galleon)
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