Please note that the content of this book primarily consists of articles available from Wikipedia or other free sources online. A razee or razee is a sailing ship that has been cut down (razeed) to reduce the number of decks. The word is derived from the French vaisseau rase, meaning a razed (in the sense of shaved down) ship. The Queen's ships built in England by Sir John Hawkins and his shipbuilders, Richard Chapman, Peter Pett and Mathew Baker from 1570 were of a "race-built" design. The description derived from their "raced" or razed fore-and aft-castles, which, combined with their greater length in relation to their beam, gave them a purposeful, sleek look. Their builders described them as having "the head of a cod and the tail of a mackerel". In 1570 Hawkins began a partnership with Richard Chapman to build or rebuild warships for the Queen's Navy Board at Deptford Dockyard.

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