Chapter I: Front Matter

Francis Bacon ]

THE LAST FIGHT OF THE REVENGE

THE LAST FIGHT OF THE
REVENGE
BY S^r WALTER RALEIGH

WITH AN INTRODUCTION
BY HENRY NEWBOLT,
M.A., AND ILLUSTRATIONS
BY FRANK
BRANGWYN, A.R.A.

LONDON: GIBBINGS AND
COMPANY 1908
]

CONTENTS

Some Appreciations _page_ 11

Introduction 15

Facsimile of original Title Page 57

The Last Fight of the Revenge 61

LIST OF PLATES

1. Queen Elizabeth going on board the Golden Hind
(_By kind permission of the Committee of
Lloyd’s Register_) _page_ 19

2. The Last Fight 59

3. Galleons in Harbour 73

4. Loading the Galleons 85

5. The Galleon Fair 97

6. A Captured Galleon (_From a picture in the
possession of Colonel Goff_) 105

SOME APPRECIATIONS

“In the year 1591 was that memorable Fight of an English _Ship_ called the _Revenge_, under the command of S^r Richard Greenvill; Memorable (I say) even beyond credit, and to the Height of some Heroicall Fable. And though it were a Defeat, yet it exceeded a Victory.”

Sir FRANCIS BACON

“S^r Richard Greenfield got eternall honour and reputation of great valour, and of a experimented Souldier, chusing rather to sacrifice his life, and to passe all danger whatsoever, then to fayle in his Obligation.... And rather we ought to imbrace an honourable death then to live with infamie and dishonour, by fayling in dutie.”

Sir RICHARD HAWKINS

“Than this what have we more! What can be greater!”

JOHN EVELYN

“Struck a deeper terror, though it was but the action of a ship, into the hearts of the Spanish people; it dealt a more deadly blow upon their fame and moral strength than the destruction of the Armada itself.”

J. A. FROUDE

“Perhaps in all naval history there never was a more gallant fight than that of the Revenge off the Western Isles.”

PROFESSOR ARBER

And the sun went down, and the stars came out far over
the summer sea,
But never a moment ceased the fight of the one and the
fifty-three.
Ship after ship, the whole night long, their high-built
galleons came,
Ship after ship, the whole night long, with her battle-thunder
and flame;
Ship after ship, the whole night long, drew back with her
dead and her shame.
For some were sunk and many were shatter’d, and so could
fight us no more--
God of battles, was ever a battle like this in the world
before?

_Tennyson, “The Revenge: A Ballad of the Fleet.”_

_By permission of Messrs Macmillan & Co., Ltd, the owners of
the copyright._