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Where applicable, number of main guns follows name (see Rating system of the Royal Navy). Note that long-lived ships could be rearmed several times. Many earlier ships went through periodic repairs and rebuildings (many now unrecorded) during which their dimensions and their armament changed considerably.
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.
A. Accomplished Quaker (1801 ship) Active (1801 whaler) Active (1805 ship) French brig Adèle; Adèle (1800 brig) Admiral Cockburn (1814 ship) Admiral Juel
The post ships, generally of 20 or 24 guns, were in practice the continuation of the earlier sixth rates. The Napoleonic War era post ships were later re-armed with (many being completed with) 32-pounder carronades instead of nine-pounder guns; after 1817 most of the survivors (except the Conway class), were re-classified as sloops.
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 ...
Aberdeen (1811 ship) Accomplished Quaker (1801 ship) Achilles (1813 ship) Actaeon (1815 Topsham ship) Active (1781 ship) Active (1789 ship) Active (1793 ship) Active (1799 ship) Active (1805 ship) Admiral Duncan (1798 ship) Admiral Gardner (1797 EIC ship) Admiral Kingsmill (1796 ship) Admiral Kingsmill (1798 ship) HMS Adonis (1806) Adrian (1819 ...
Active (1800 ship) Active (1801 whaler) Adamant (1811 ship) Admiral Barrington (1781 ship) Admiral Cockburn (1814 ship) Admiral Colpoys (1792 ship) Admiral Gambier (1807 ship) Admiral Kingsmill (ship) Admiral Laforey (1797 ship) Admiral Mann (1800 ship) Adriatic (1811 ship) Æolus (1783 ship) Agamemnon (1811 ship) List of ships named Albion ...
An ironclad was a steam-propelled warship in the early part of the second half of the 19th century, protected by iron or steel armour plates. The term battleship was not used by the Admiralty until the early 1880s [ citation needed ] , with the construction of the Colossus class .