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The 'Great Harry', man of war, the largest ship in the world during the reign of Henry VIII, c1857. The ship, properly named the 'Henry Grace a Dieu', is contrasted with HMS 'Royal Albert', of 131 guns, launched at Woolwich in 1854. From England's Battles by Sea and Land, volume IV, by Lieutenant Colonel William Freke Williams, published by the London Printing and Publishing Company, 1857.