The French galley raid on Shoreham in 1545 was one of several hit-and-run attacks on the Sussex coast by detached galleys from the main French fleet operating in the Channel. The speed of galley operations and their shallow draught made them almost impossible to intercept before they had completed a raid and withdrawn. The Shoreham attack, like those on Brighton and Seaford in the same year, highlighted the residual vulnerability of the Sussex coast despite investment in coastal defences.
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