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Class overview
Name	Crane Group
Builders	Peter Pett I, Radcliffe; Portsmouth Dockyard;
Operators	English Navy Royal
Preceded by	None
Succeeded by	1637 Group
Built	1590
In service	1590-1629
Completed	4
Lost	1
Retired	3
General characteristics
Type	Small Ship
Tons burthen	200 bm
Sail plan	ship-rigged
Complement	100 - 1603
Armament	19 guns

The Crane Group was a group of four 200-ton small galleons built after the defeat of the Spanish Armada in 1588. These vessels were all armed with about 20 guns and were rated in the six tier rating system of 1626 as Fourth Rate ships. They were all gone by the 1630s.^[1]

Design and specifications

The ships may have been built in Deptford but not much information survives. The master shipwrights are known but not the exact location of their builds. Only launch years are available for each ship. The dimensions of the vessels is varied and will be shown on the individual pages of each vessel. The gun armaments was also varied though it is known that they carried around nineteen to twenty guns of demi-culverins, sakers, minions and fowlers.^[2]

Ships of the Crane Group


Name	Builder	Launch date	Remarks
Crane	Richard Chapman	1590	Sold at Rochester on 17 June 1629
Quittance	Matthew Baker	1590	Condemned 1618
Answer	Matthew Baker	1590	Sold at Rochester on 17 June 1629
Advantage	Peter & Joseph Pett	1590	Burnt by accident in Scotland December 1613

Citations

^ Winfield
^ Winfield

References

British Warships in the Age of Sail (1603 – 1714), by Rif Winfield, published by Seaforth Publishing, England © Rif Winfield 2009, EPUB ISBN 978-1-78346-924-6, Chapter 4, The Fourth Rates - 'Small Ships', Vessels in service or on order at 24 March 1603, Crane Group
Colledge, Ships of the Royal Navy, by J.J. Colledge, revised and updated by Lt-Cdr Ben Warlow and Steve Bush, published by Seaforth Publishing, Barnsley, Great Britain, © the estate of J.J. Colledge, Ben Warlow and Steve Bush 2020, EPUB ISBN 978-1-5267-9328-7