England always rules de waves. This is one that annoys me deeply, coming from a determinism that England will always gain supremacy at sea. When for this to happen at OTL, several things had to work out for the English, from the colonization of Brazil by the Portuguese, the Spanish fleet having bad luck with the winds and France not investing in the navy (among many other things). The English only gain supremacy of the sea after the seven years war in the 18th century. Until then, many things can change in a TL making England just another naval power. Depending on the changes, it is not difficult to make, for example, France in the long run become the naval power of Europe. (Or Spain, Al-andalus or other powers from different TLs).