The Sea Hawk Page #5

on my treasury.

If my Lord Admiral is so intent

on building a fleet...

perhaps he will also advise me

where to get the money to pay for it.

Your pardon,

but may I remind Your Grace...

that our privateers

have made substantial contributions...

for the very purpose of providing a navy?

A large fleet is a luxury

England can ill afford.

Tell your friends the Sea Hawks I have

more urgent uses for their contributions.

Besides, there's another risk

which Sir John fails to reckon.

Should England attempt

to vie in sea power...

it may cost her the friendship of Spain.

I believe milord values too highly

something which doesn't exist.

Have we any evidence

of Phillip's friendship?

His forbearance when our privateers

harass his commerce...

and plunder his possessions.

I suspect Phillip forbears only because...

What else can he do?

He can bide his time,

until his great armada is built...

and then he can strike quickly

before we are ready.

I fear Sir John has delusions of danger,

Your Grace.

Spain is a vast empire.

Naturally, she needs a vast fleet

to defend it.

The Armada's no threat to England...

unless, by provoking Phillip,

we choose to make it so.

Let me be clear, Wolfingham.

My reason for refusing to build a fleet...

is to spare the purses of my subjects,

not the feelings of Phillip.

In fact, I have some serious questions

to put to his ambassador.

Is Don Alvarez not due?

Overdue, Your Grace.

I feel some concern for his safety.

Spanish ships are notoriously slow.

He should have come on an English boat.

Eleven bells, and all's well!

Look at him, will you?

He's as tongue-tied as a schoolboy.

He's always the same

when he has to talk to a woman.

Him what's taken fleets of Spanish ships

can't trade words with a slip of a girl.

- I can't figure him at all.

- Ship's the only thing he cares about.

- He hates the sight of blooming women.

- Not the Queen, he don't.

I hear Her Majesty's the only woman

he could talk up to...

without his knees buckling.

That's different. Man to man, I calls it.

Come on, get on with your work.

What are you standing there for?

Good morning.

Have you been comfortable on board?

- Yes.

- Good.

That promontory over there,

the one you're looking at...

it's got a very interesting history.

It got its name from...

Yes?

I don't remember how it got its name.

Have you been comfortable on board?

- Yes, thank you.

- Good.

Of course, we haven't many of the luxuries

of a galleass...

but she's a fine ship.

We're quite proud of her.

Are you?

Yes.

At all events,

you'll find her safer from attack...

and you'll get there quicker, too.

We've an old proverb in England. It says:

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