Anthony Deane, 37 years old, Master Shipwright at Portsmouth dockyard since 1668, publishes his Doctrine for Naval Architecture . Anthony Deane Eight years ago, this atypical future master shipwright won an influential patron, and a friend, in Samuel Pepys, of the same age, Clerk of the Acts to the Navy Board, himself under the patronage of Admiral Edward Montagu, earl of Sandwich. Deane impressed Pepys for, first he had developed a vision of

The great three-decker Sovereign of the Seas  reappears as the Royal Sovereign after her rebuilding in the same Royal dockyard of Woolwich where she was originally built and launched in 1637. She has grown by a foot in breadth and by a hundred tons to be a 100-gun vessel, the largest in the world as she has ever been since her first day. ¤ Her original name claimed the rule over the seas for England. Under the Republican Commonwealth (1649-60), she briefly became Commonwe