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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.
Number of main guns follows name (see rating system of the Royal Navy) The larger ships are listed in pages 159–160 of The Ship of the Line Volume I, by Brian Lavery, published by Conways, 1983, ISBN 0-85177-252-8, and more fully in British Warships in the Age of Sail: 1603–1714, by Rif Winfield, published by Seaforth Publishing, 2009, ISBN ...
The British Royal Navy captured Emanuela off the coast of Africa in 1860 with over 800 slaves aboard. Tayleur: 1854 United Kingdom : Wrecked in 1854 230 ft (70 m) Designed by William Rennie of Liverpool and built for owners Charles Moore & Company. Abbott Lawrence: 1855 United States (Boston, MA) Unknown 202.5 ft (61.7 m)
This is a list of frigate classes of the Royal Navy of the United Kingdom (and the individual ships composed within those classes) in chronological order from the formal creation of the Royal Navy following the Restoration in 1660. Where the word 'class' or 'group' is not shown, the vessel was a 'one-off' design with just that vessel completed ...
This page is a list of famous ships and sailors of the Royal Navy. The list is composed of famous sailors of the Royal Navy e.g. Horatio Nelson. The list also includes people who are famous and have served with the Royal Navy at some point e.g. Alec Guinness. This list also includes ships that have become famous in their own right, e.g. Mary Rose.
Pages in category "1800s ships" The following 135 pages are in this category, out of 135 total. This list may not reflect recent changes. A. ... Code of Conduct;
Victorian-era auxiliary ships of the United Kingdom (3 P) Pages in category "Victorian-era naval ships of the United Kingdom" The following 28 pages are in this category, out of 28 total.
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 ...