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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.
Active (1805 ship) French brig Adèle. Adèle (1800 brig) Admiral Cockburn (1814 ship) Admiral Juel. Hired armed cutter Admiral Mitchell. Albatros (19th-century ship) Hired armed cutter Albion. Hired armed lugger Alert.
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 ship) Adriatic (1810 ship)
The maritime history of England involves events including shipping, ports, navigation, and seamen, as well as marine sciences, exploration, trade, and maritime themes in the arts of England. Until the advent of air transport and the creation of the Channel Tunnel, marine transport was the only way of reaching the rest of Europe from England and ...
Dragon (1542) – taken to pieces 1552. Greyhound (1545) – rebuilt as a galleon 1558. George (1546) - taken to pieces 1558. Second group The four ships built to this type (together with two similar vessels captured from the Scots) were four-masted galleasses with a higher forecastle.
Bengal Merchant (1812 ship) Betsey (1768 ship) Betsy (1793 ship) Bhavani (1797 ship) Blenden Hall. Boddington (1781 ship) Boddingtons (1793 ship) Bonavista (1825 ship) Boyd (1783 ship)
The Royal Navy (RN) is the naval warfare force of the United Kingdom, British Overseas Territories and Crown Dependencies, and a component of His Majesty's Naval Service. Although warships were used by English and Scottish kings from the early medieval period, the first major maritime engagements were fought in the Hundred Years' War against ...
HMS Warrior is a 40-gun steam-powered armoured frigate [Note 1] built for the Royal Navy in 1859–1861. She was the name ship of the Warrior-class ironclads. Warrior and her sister ship HMS Black Prince were the first armour-plated, iron-hulled warships, and were built in response to France's launching in 1859 of the first ocean-going ironclad warship, the wooden-hulled Gloire.