# Elizabethan Merchant Ships and Shipbuilding

- Institution: Gresham College
- Speaker: Dr Ian Friel FSA
- Year: 2009
- Level: For everyone
- Language: English
- Subjects: History
- Source: [Gresham College](https://www.gresham.ac.uk/watch-now/elizabethan-merchant-ships-and-shipbuilding)
- Licence: [Educational use (Gresham College's terms)](https://www.gresham.ac.uk/terms-and-conditions)
- Who can watch: Teens profiles and older (sources give no ratings; placed by Invisible Network from the source's own words)

Elizabeth’s galleons and other warships have attracted much attention, but a strong and diverse shipbuilding capability and merchant fleet were the foundations of Tudor seapower. This lecture not only covers the technological, organisational, economic and operational side of ships and shipbuilding, but also looks at the human realities of seafaring life in the period.

## Lectures

1. [Elizabethan Merchant Ships and Shipbuilding](https://invisiblenetwork.ai/learn/gresham/elizabethan-merchant-ships-and-shipbuilding/7660d78dbb98) (YouTube)