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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.
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]
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 ...
RN auxiliary ships Survey Class Ship No. Commissioned Displacement Type Homeport Note — HMS Scott: H131: 1997: 13,500 tonnes: Ocean survey: Devonport [77] — HMS Protector: A173: 2011: 5,000 tonnes: Icebreaker & survey [78] [N 16] Sea class 18 m variant: HMS Magpie: H130: 2018: 37 tonnes: Survey motor launch [80] Non-commissioned vessels ...
Passenger ships of the United Kingdom include passenger-carrying ships designed, built, or operated in or by the United Kingdom Wikimedia Commons has media related to Passenger ships of the United Kingdom .
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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
Nemesis was the first British ocean-going iron warship. She was the largest of a class of six similar vessels ordered by the 'Secret Committee' of the East India Company. Nemesis, together with her sister ships Phlegethon, Pluto, Proserpine, Ariadne, and Medusa, was built by John Laird's yard at Birkenhead and William Fairbairn & Sons at ...