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This is a list of ships of the line of the Royal Navy of England, and later (from 1707) of Great Britain, and the United Kingdom.The list starts from 1660, the year in which the Royal Navy came into being after the restoration of the monarchy under Charles II, up until the emergence of the battleship around 1880, as defined by the Admiralty.
Ships of the Royal Navy. This is an alphabetical list of the names of all ships that have been in service with the Royal Navy, or with predecessor fleets formally in the service of the Kingdom of England or the Commonwealth of England. The list also includes fictional vessels which have prominently featured in literature about the Royal Navy.
Gallery of past and present naval vessels of the United Kingdom. HMS Ajax (1798) an Ajax-class ship of the line that served in the Napoleonic Wars. HMS Ajax is a Third-rate ship which formed the majority of the Royal Navy's ships of the line at that time. Ships of the line were the main ships used in naval battles at the time. HMS Paladin (1916 ...
Dragon (1542) – taken to pieces 1552. Greyhound (1545) – rebuilt as a galleon 1558. George (1546) - taken to pieces 1558. Second group The four ships built to this type (together with two similar vessels captured from the Scots) were four-masted galleasses with a higher forecastle.
A further three Countys were cancelled. The York class was a reduced version of the County to build more ships within tonnage limits. Hawkins class (also known as Cavendish) or 9,860 tons, 7x 7.5-inch Cavendish (1918) – completed as aircraft carrier Vindictive, converted to cruiser in 1925, to training ship 1937; scrapped 1946
A 1728 diagram illustrating a first- and a third-rate ship. The rating system of the Royal Navy and its predecessors was used by the Royal Navy between the beginning of the 17th century and the middle of the 19th century to categorise sailing warships, initially classing them according to their assigned complement of men, and later according to the number of their carriage-mounted guns.
The Maritime history of the United Kingdom involves events including shipping, ports, navigation, and seamen, as well as marine sciences, exploration, trade, and maritime themes in the arts from the creation of the kingdom of Great Britain [1] as a united, sovereign state, on 1 May 1707 in accordance with the Treaty of Union, signed on 22 July ...
HMS Dragon 1845. HMS Penelope 1843 – first class, originally built as a sailing frigate in 1829. HMS Retribution 1844 – first class, originally classed just as a 'steam vessel', modified version of Cyclops[1] HMS Terrible 1845 – first class, originally classed just as a 'steam vessel'. HMS Avenger 1845 – first class.