Search results
Results from the WOW.Com Content Network
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.
This page was last edited on 19 January 2024, at 15:01 (UTC).; Text is available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 License; additional terms may apply.
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.
Ship No. Commissioned Displacement Type Homeport Note Queen Elizabeth class: HMS Queen Elizabeth: R08: 2017: 80,600 tonnes: Aircraft carrier: Portsmouth [23] [24] HMS Prince of Wales: R09: 2019 [25] [N 2] Destroyers; Class Ship No. Commissioned Displacement Type Homeport Note Type 45 (Daring class) HMS Daring: D32: 2009: 8,500 tonnes: Anti-air ...
Britannia was a large ship for the period, 207 feet (63 m) long and 34 feet (10.3 m) across the beam, with three masts and a wooden hull. [2] She had paddle wheels and her coal-powered [2] two-cylinder side-lever engine (from Robert Napier) had a power output of about 740 indicated horsepower with a coal consumption around 38 tons per day. [2]
About Wikipedia; Contact us; Contribute Help; ... Category: Ships by year. ... 1840 ships (30 P) 1841 ships (29 P) 1842 ships (34 P)
Altogether over 13,000 ships have been in service with the Royal Navy. [1] Unlike many other naval services, the Royal Navy designates certain types of shore establishment (e.g. barracks, naval air stations and training establishments) as "ships" and names them accordingly.
Full-rigged ship: For Messrs. C. Eggington & Sons. [41] 4 April France: Jean Michel Segondat Cherbourg: Friedland: Océan-class ship of the line: For French Navy. [42] [43] 6 April United Kingdom: Woolwich Dockyard: Cygnet: Alert-class brig-sloop: For Royal Navy. [44] [4] 7 April United Kingdom: Austin & Mills Sunderland: Mayborough: Brig