ABSTRACT
This chapter discusses the establishments and surveys of Edward VI. Most modern lists of Edwards VIs fleet derive from one first printed in the eighteenth century, showing where each ship was stationed at the end of Edwards first year. Although some detail has been corrupted in transmission, the ordnance data corresponds almost exactly to that of the great inventory of Henry VIIIs goods compiled at that time. The chapter explores the Dockyard establishment. Another major source for the Tudor Navy is the MS collection of Sir Robert Cotton, now part of the British Library. Cottons books had been damaged by a fire in 1731 and many of the papers bound into them are burned away at the edges, so that any transcription generally has to be supplemented by conjecture, or peppered with dots where conjecture fails. The chapter focuses on the survey of Great Bark and illustrates that it staunch without pumping.
