The Mary Rose was Henry VIII’s Spruce Goose. Bigger is not always better; depends on the talent of the designer/builder.
Also, Henry VIII can be credited as father of the British Navy -- he imported coal miners and metallurgists from some of the German states in order to replace naval and field guns with iron-based versions (the bronze cannon were expensive and unreliable, even dangerous to use), which tended to make vessel redesign a learn-by-doing affair until they were no longer topheavy.