The Dawn of Empire


Tudor Shipwright


A Tudor shipwright, watched by an assistant, uses a pair of dividers to draw up plans for a vessel, perhaps in preparation for a critical scrutiny by the King himself. In fact Henry was something of an accomplished shipwright in his own right.


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