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A. Accomplished Quaker (1801 ship) Active (1801 whaler) Active (1805 ship) French brig Adèle; Adèle (1800 brig) Admiral Cockburn (1814 ship) Admiral Juel
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.
Henry started a programme of building specialised warships. By the end of his reign there were five royal ships, two being four-masted carracks that were much larger than the usual English merchant ship. By the time that Henry VIII died in 1547 the navy had been built up to about 40 ships. The invention of gunport meant that guns could be ...
Aberdeen (1811 ship) Accomplished Quaker (1801 ship) Achilles (1813 ship) Actaeon (1815 Topsham ship) Active (1781 ship) Active (1789 ship) Active (1793 ship) Active (1799 ship) Active (1805 ship) Admiral Duncan (1798 ship) Admiral Gardner (1797 EIC ship) Admiral Kingsmill (1796 ship) Admiral Kingsmill (1798 ship) HMS Adonis (1806) Adrian (1819 ...
Ships royal all the ships listed (except Prince Royal) were rebuilds of earlier ships Prince Royal 55 (1610) [4] – which, while a new ship, was built as a replacement for the former Victory. White Bear 51 [5] (1599) – Sold 1629; Merhonour 40/44 (1615) – Sold 1650 [4] Anne Royal 42 (1608) – ex-Ark Royal, wrecked 1636, refloated and BU ...
On the Isle of Man route, sailing ships were used until 1830 but steamships proved faster and more reliable. The ferry trade expanded with the advent of roll-on/roll-off ship designs. The ferries across the English Channel were badly affected by the opening of the Channel Tunnel in 1994. Cruise boats became popular in the 19th century.
The original 1920s edition of the H. P. Gibson naval board game Dover Patrol used a number of real RN ship names, but generally attached them to different ship classes. Thus the "Flagships" were H.M.S. Nelson and Drake, and the "Super Dreadnoughts" were H.M.S. Australia, New Zealand, Canada and India, but few of these resembled the actual ships ...
The sonar imagery clearly showed a large sailing ship resting upright at an angle, with two masts reaching up at least 70 feet (21 m) above the bottom of the lake. The high resolution images showed the remains of two fighting tops, one on each mast, strongly suggesting that the sunken vessel was the brig-sloop Ontario .