DefianceThe 'HMS' prefix was not used until the middle of the 18th century, but is sometimes applied retrospectively was a 46-gun galleon of the English Tudor navy, launched in 1590.Lavery, Ships of the Line vol. 1, p. 14.

She was rebuilt as a 40-gun great ship in 1615 by Phineas Pett I at Woolwich. Defiance was sold out of the navy in 1650.

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Lavery, Brian (1983) The Ship of the Line - Volume 1: The development of the battlefleet 1650-1850. Conway Maritime Press. .