She made some progress in paying those great debts which lay upon the crown; she regulated the coin, which had been much debased by her predecessors; she furnished her arsenals with great quantities of arms from Germany and other places; engaged her nobility and gentry to imitate her example in this particular; introduced into the kingdom the art of making gunpowder and brass cannon; fortified her frontiers on the side of Scotland; made frequent reviews of the militia; encouraged agriculture, by allowing a free exportation of corn; promoted trade and navigation; and so much increased the shipping of her kingdom, both by building vessels of force herself, and suggesting like undertakings to the merchants, that she was justly styled the restorer of naval glory, and the queen of the northern seas.
— from The History of England in Three Volumes, Vol.I., Part D. From Elizabeth to James I. by David Hume

She came through it all in triumph with the trident of the ocean in her grasp, acknowledged by the Nations, as the “ Queen of the Sea , the Restorer of Naval glory.”
— from Drake; or, the Transfer of the Trident: A National Drama by William MacOubrey