When she was launched in sixteen thirty-seven, she was the most powerful warship in the world — and without question the most extravagant. Every surface that could be carved was carved, and every carving was covered in gold leaf. She cost so much that the tax raised to pay for her became one of the grievances that helped push England into civil war. The Dutch, who met her in battle more than once, called her the Golden Devil.

Tonight, drift slowly through her story — the king who insisted on a ship grander than any afloat, the master shipwrights who argued she was too tall and too heavy, the carvers and gilders who worked for months on her stern, the hundred guns she carried on three full decks, the wars in which she fought and the reputation she earned, her long career and rebuilding across five decades, and the small accident that finally ended the most magnificent ship of her age. Let the tale carry you gently toward sleep.

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