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Lesser warships ("below the line") are taken from A History of the Administration on the Royal Navy (sic!) 1509–1660, by Michael Oppenheim, published by the Bodley Head, 1896, as well as from Winfield's book. The frigates listed here are not the type of vessel known as frigates in the 18th and 19th centuries.
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 ...
This is a list of the oldest ships in the world which have survived to this day with exceptions to certain categories. The ships on the main list, which include warships, yachts, tall ships, and vessels recovered during archaeological excavations, all date to between 500 AD and 1918; earlier ships are covered in the list of surviving ancient ships.
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.
Conway's All the World's Fighting Ships 1860–1905. Conway Maritime Press, 1979. ISBN 0-8317-0302-4; Gardiner, Robert (Ed.). Conway's All the World's Fighting Ships 1906–1921. Conway Maritime Press, 1985. ISBN 0-85177-245-5; Gardiner, Robert; Chesneau, Roger, eds. (1980). Conway's All The World's Fighting Ships 1922–1946. London: Conway ...
The books draw data from Admiralty official records to give details on the location of construction, dates of construction (ordering, keel laying, launch, commissioning and completion of fitting-out), principal dimensions and tonnage, complement of men and armament, machinery (for steam vessels) and fate of every ship of the Royal Navy over the period.
E'Book "Ships of the Old Navy A history of the sailing ships of the Royal Navy by Michael Phillips". The Age of Nelson / Michael Phillips; Southey, Robert (1896). Robert Southey's Life of Nelson Longmans, Green, and Co., London, Bombay. p. 302, E'Book; Walder, David (1978). Nelson: A Biography Dial Press/J. Wade, p. 538, Book
Turret ship Royal Navy [9] HMS Wivern: 1863: Turret ship Royal Navy [9] CSS Lark: 1864: Paddle steamer Confederate States Navy [10] HMS Agincourt: 1865: Ironclad Royal Navy [11] Huáscar: 1865: Turret ship Peru [12] HMS Euphrates: 1866: Troop ship Royal Navy [13] HNLMS Prins Hendrik der Nederlanden: 1866: Turret ship Royal Netherlands Navy [14 ...