The Last Fight of the Revenge

The Last Fight of the Revenge is the true story of one of the most famous and extraordinary battles in naval history, when Sir Richard Grenville fought with just one galleon, the Revenge, against an armada of fifty-three Spanish ships in the waters of the Azores. Three years after playing her part in the defeat of the Spanish Armada, the Revenge was drawn into a suicidal encounter with the Spanish fleet whilst hunting treasure in the Azores. Despite her inevitable defeat and surrender after an epic and frenzied twelve-hour battle, the Revenge's last stand passed into history as a paragon of English maritime heroism, immortalised by Sir Walter Raleigh and Alfred, Lord Tennyson.