Grace Dieu (ship)

The Grace Dieu (French grace of God ) was during the Hundred Years War, the flagship of Henry V of England.

Built in 1418, she went in 1439 by lightning near Southampton under. The Grace Dieu was made ​​in the construction of a carrack and was 67 meters long and 2750 tonnes displacement as the largest ship of the Middle Ages, making it one of the highlights of the European shipbuilding before the kraweelbeplankten caravels in the course of the 15th century arose innovative ship types.

The Grace Dieu had a single mast and was armed with three guns and archers.

The ship was rediscovered in 1874 and recorded on February 5, 1974 by the Underwater Archaeology and declared a National Monument. In the course of an episode of the archeology series Time Team on Channel 4 in 2004, the Grace Dieu was scientifically studied, the size information could be confirmed.