Sixty English mariners were appointed to attend upon them.

The Venetians were then the skilled "heads," the English were only the "hands." Nevertheless they failed with all their efforts; and it was not until the year 1836 that Mr.Dean, the engineer, succeeded in raising not only the Royal George, but the Mary Rose, and cleared the roadstead at Portsmouth of the remains of the sunken ships.
When Elizabeth ascended the throne in 1558, the commerce and navigation of England were still of very small amount.

The population of the kingdom amounted to only about five millions--not much more than the population of London is now.

The country had little commerce, and what it had was still mostly in the hands of foreigners.

The Hanse towns had their large entrepot for merchandise in Cannon Street, on the site of the present Cannon Street Station.