The French fleet were thirty-nine in number.
They met in Brittany Bay, and had a fierce fight.

The Regent grappled with a great carack of Brest; the French, on the English boarding their ship, set fire to the gunpowder, and both ships were blown up, with all their men.

The French fleet fled, and the English kept the seas.

The King, hearing of the loss of the Regent, caused a great ship to be built, the like of which had never before been seen in England, and called it Harry Grace de Dieu.
This ship was constructed by foreign artizans, principally by Italians, and was launched in 1515.

She was said to be of a thousand tons portage--the largest ship in England.