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The Armada consisted of about 130 warships and converted merchant ships. After forcing its way up the English Channel, being attacked by the English fleet of about 200 vessels, it anchored off the coast at Gravelines waiting for the army. A fire ship attack drove the Spanish ships from their safe anchorage. The Armada was blown north up the ...
Amphitrite (1802 ship) Anacreon (1800 ship) Andersons (1798 ship) Andrew Marvel (1812 ship) Angola (1799 ship) Anjengo (1802 ship) Ann (1792 ship) Ann (1801 Fowey ship) Ann (1801 ship) Ann (1805 ship) Ann and Eliza (1789 ship) Anna (1739 ship) Anna (1790 ship) Anna (1793 ship) Anna Augusta (1801 ship) Anstruther (1800 ship) Antelope (1798 ship ...
Accomplished Quaker (1801 ship) Active (1801 whaler) 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; Amelia Wilson (1809 ship) Ann (1807 ship) Anstruther (1800 ship) Atlantic ...
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.
In fact, the abbreviated form "HMS" was not used until nearly the end of the following century, with the term "His Majesty's Ship" (formally altered to "Their Majesties' Ship" between 1689 and 1694, when William I and Mary II were co-rulers, and to "Her Majesty's Ship" between 1702 and 1714, and again from 1837 to 1901, when there was a queen ...
Custine ( France): The privateer was captured in the English Channel by HMS Hinde and sent to Portsmouth, Hampshire. [17] Delight ( France): The ship was captured by Mary and sent to Liverpool, Lancashire, Kingdom of Great Britain. [11] Delight ( Great Britain): The ship was captured by a French privateer off Grenada. [6]
On the Isle of Man route, sailing ships were used until 1830 but steamships proved faster and more reliable. The ferry trade expanded with the advent of roll-on/roll-off ship designs. The ferries across the English Channel were badly affected by the opening of the Channel Tunnel in 1994. Cruise boats became popular in the 19th century.
On English ships, the red, white, or blue ensigns had the St George's Cross of England removed from the canton, and the combined crosses of the Union flag put in its place. [37] Throughout the 18th and 19th centuries, the Royal Navy was the largest maritime force in the world, [ 38 ] maintaining superiority in financing, tactics, training ...