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A two-decker is a sail warship which carried her guns on two fully armed decks. [1] Usually additional guns were carried on the upper works (forecastle and quarterdeck), but this was not a continuous battery and thus not counted as a full gun deck. Two-deckers ranged all the way from the small 40-gun Fifth rate up to 80- or even 90-gun ships of ...
A Spanish galleon (left) firing its cannons at a Dutch warship (right). Cornelis Verbeeck, c. 1618–1620 A Spanish galleon Carracks, galleon (center/right), square rigged caravel (below), galley and fusta (galliot) depicted by D. João de Castro on the "Suez Expedition" (part of the Portuguese Armada of 72 ships sent against the Ottoman fleet anchor in Suez, Egypt, in response to its entry in ...
Sovereign of the Seas, 1637, by J Payne. During the transition from galleons to more frigate-like warships (1600 – 1650) there was a general awareness that the reduction in topweight afforded by the removal of upperworks made ships better sailers; Rear Admiral Sir William Symonds noted after the launch of Sovereign of the Seas that she was "cut down" and made a safe and fast ship.
2-decker 74 Capt Louis-Antoine-Cyprien Infernet: 745 [79] 80 162 242 [s] 32% Captured 21 Oct Evacuated, blown up 24 Oct Monarca [112] 2-decker 74 Capt Don Teodoro de Argumosa: 667 [113] 101 154 255 38% Captured 21 Oct Recaptured 22 Oct Sunk 31 Oct Pluton [114] 2-decker 74 Commodore Julien Cosmao-Kerjulien: 755 [115] 60 132 192 25% Escaped ...
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The 74-gun ship carried 28 (24-pounders – to 36-pounders) on the lower gun deck, 28–30 (18 – to 24-pounders) on the upper gun deck, and 14–18 (6 – to 12-pounders) on the upper works. [2] Crew size was around 500 to 750 men depending on design, circumstances and nationality, with British ships tending to have smaller crews than other ...
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