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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.
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 ...
RMS Columbia (1840) 1840 Wrecked on Devil's Limb Reef at Seal Island, Nova Scotia, on July 2, 1843 SS Columbus: 1924 Scuttled by the crew in 1939 to avoid capture by the Royal Navy SS Conte di Savoia: 1931 Scrapped in 1950 SS Conte Rosso: 1921 Torpedoed and sunk, 24 May 1941 SS Conte Verde: 1922 Scrapped in 1949 SS Cristoforo Colombo: 1953
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
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 ...
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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]
Regal Cinemas was one of the first cinema chains in the United Kingdom. In 1928, Regal Cinemas became part of Associated British Cinemas but retained the name 'Regal Cinemas'. [1] Many of the Regal Cinemas closed during the second half of the 20th century. The surviving Regal Cinemas in Cromer and Redruth are owned by Merlin Cinemas.