The English Navy in the Late 1560s

During the Elizabethan era, that type of naval combat was in decline because most ships now carried cannons. And for that reason, English ship builders decided to reduce those towers on the front and back of those ships as they weren't really needed anymore. Those types of ships were sometimes called race-built galleons. In his description of England, William Harrison seems to allude to that change in his chapter on the English Navy. He wrote: "There are no vessels in the world to be compared with ours"