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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.
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.
San Lorenzo Zustinian-class ship of the line: For Venetian Navy. [1] [2] 16 May Republic of Venice: Francesco di Angelo di Ponti Corfu: Lyon Trionfante: Third Rate For Venetian Navy. [3] [4] 23 May Spain: Pasajes: Real Felipe: Third rate: For Spanish Navy. [5] May Republic of Venice: Gerusalemme: Sloop of War: For Venetian Navy. [6] May ...
HMS Peregrine Galley was a 20-gun sixth-rate ship of the Royal Navy, built in 1699-1700 at Sheerness Dockyard by Master Shipwright William Lee to a design by Rear-Admiral the Marquis of Carmarthen. She was generally employed as a Royal yacht and in 1716 she was officially renamed HMS Carolina and converted to a permanent Royal yacht.
The total displacement of the Royal Navy's commissioned and active ships is approximately 393,000 tonnes. The Royal Navy also includes a number of smaller non-commissioned assets. The naval training vessels Brecon and Hindostan can be found based at the Royal Navy stone frigates HMS Raleigh and the Britannia Royal Naval College, respectively
The ship was large for its armament: with a keel length of 43.2 metres (142 ft) it rivalled the British 100-gun first-rate HMS Royal William, although with a width of 13.4 metres (44 ft), it was almost 2 metres (6.6 ft) narrower than the Royal William. [4] Almost all the ships of this class were planned and started before 1739, completed to a ...
Arctic exploration ship Purchased in 1850 as Ptarmigan: Retired 1879 and broken up HMS Halifax (1768) Schooner 1768 Built at Halifax, Nova Scotia, the first Royal Navy ship built in Canada Lost 1775 HMS Halifax (1780) Sloop 1777 as United States Navy USS Ranger: Captured 1780 Decommissioned in 1781 HMS Halifax (1806) Sloop 1806
The 1719 Establishment was a set of mandatory requirements governing the construction of all Royal Navy warships capable of carrying more than 20 naval long guns.It was designed to bring economies of scale through uniform vessel design, and ensure a degree of certainty about vessel capability once at sea, and was applied to all vessels from the first-rate to the fifth-rate.