Seafaring
English ships and seamen

The Mary Rose:
it was built 1509-11 and sunk in 1545.

The Golden Hind
this was the ship in which Sir Francis Drake circumnavigated the globe in 1577-1580.
(The expedition of the Portuguese navigator Ferdinand Magellan first sailed around the world in 1519-22, though Magellan himself was killed on the way; Drake was the first Englishman to sail round the world.)

Sir Martin Frobisher (c.1535 -1594)

In 1576 he sailed in search of a "Northwest Passage" to Asia, and reached Baffin Bay in Canada.
He helped defeat the Spanish Armada and died from wounds received fighting the Spanish.

Sir Francis Drake (1540-96)

Drake made his fortune less by his voyages of exploration than by privateering -  attacking and stealing from Spanish settlements in the New World and plundering the treasure ships that brought gold and silver back from there.
A famous (though perhaps apocryphal) anecdote tells of how Sir Francis Drake was playing lawn bowls when he was told of the approach of the Armada. He continued to play saying "We can finish the game and still beat the Spaniards."

The Royal Charles

It was built in 1655 (then named the Naseby) and later saw service (and ignominious defeat) in the Battle of Medway (June 1667) where it was captured by the Dutch.

Admiral Robert Blake (1598-1657)

Blake fought for the Parliament against the Royalists, as well as against the Dutch and Spanish. He was the first English admiral to keep a fleet at sea during the winter. He developed techniques of blockade and amphibious landing and destroyed fleets in harbors under the guns of shore forts.