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Lyon's Whelp or Lion's Whelp is the name of a historical British ship, it is also found in the Bible in Genesis 49:9 “Judah is a lion’s whelp." Popular today, the name was given to a series of 16th-century naval ships, then in the 17th century to a fleet of ten full rigged pinnaces commissioned by the first Duke of Buckingham.
 A ship from the time of Charles I of England, before 1649
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| History | |
|---|---|
 England | |
| Name | Lion's Whelp |
| Ordered | 28 February 1628 |
| Laid down | March 1628 |
| Launched | late July, 1628 |
| Acquired | Duke of Buckingham, July, 1628; Royal Navy, 1632 |
| Commissioned | 1632 |
| In service | 1628 to 1632 to 1654 |
| Out of service | 1628 to 1632 to 1654 |
| Fate | Various |
| Notes | John Graves built eighth and ninth Whelps. Phineas Pett's certificates of works done have survived for all Whelps except the ninth.[1] |
| General characteristics | |
| Type | 3-masted pinnace, auxiliary oared warship |
| Displacement | 186 tons 180 long tons (183 t) |
| Beam | 25 ft (7.6 m) |
| Depth of hold | 9 ft (2.7 m) |
| Propulsion | Sweeps (two oars between each cannon port).[Note 1] |
| Armament | 9 broadside cannons, 2 sternchase gunports [Note 2][2][Note 3] |
| Notes | The Whelps were classed as ships "of the sixth rank" |
- ^ The Lion's Whelps – Introduction, History, Construction, What Did They Look Like? by James Wassell, 23 February 2003. Retrieved 11 February 2011.
- ^ The Lion's Whelps Archived 1 March 2009 at the Wayback Machine – Introduction, History, Construction, What Did They Look Like? by James Wassell, 23 February 2003. Retrieved 11 February 2011
- ^ The Lion's Whelps – Introduction, History, Construction, What Did They Look Like? by James Wassell, 23 February 2003. Retrieved 11 February 2011. "If used, the demi-cannon would (I think) have been mounted aft to enable them to fire either out of the stern ports or the quarter-ports noted above. The brass sakers were probably mounted forward, to be used as bowchasers. "If your Lordships be purposed to employ any of the Whelps upon these coasts, I have conferred divers of the skilfullest gunners here who are of opinion that it would be of special consequence that the demi-cannons in them might be converted into saker or minion for the demy-cannon was so heavy and the decks so weak that most of the demy-cannon were stowed in hould this voyage ...." - from a letter to the Lords Commissioners of the Admiralty from Sir Guilford Slingsby, 23 September 1628. The above armament was varied over the years, for example a list of the armament of several Royal ships at Portsmouth in August 1631 (SP 16. 198) lists 14 guns on both the Third and Fifth Whelps. The additional cannon were 2 iron ?demi-cannon.
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