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This is a list of ships of the line of the United States Navy. Because of the operating expense, a number of these were never launched. These ships were maintained on the stocks, sometimes for decades, in case of an urgent need. [1] [2] [3]
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 ship of the line was a type of naval warship constructed during the Age of Sail from the 17th century to the mid-19th century. The ship of the line was designed for the naval tactic known as the line of battle, which involved the two columns of opposing warships manoeuvering to volley fire with the cannons along their broadsides.
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 ...
Ships of the line of the Imperial Russian Navy (1 C, 29 P) S. Ships of the line of the Spanish Navy (45 P) U. Ships of the line of the United States Navy (15 P) V.
List of ships of the line of the United States Navy This page was last edited on 6 April 2017, at 16:02 (UTC). Text is available under the Creative Commons ...
Victorian-era ships of the line (1 C, 20 P) Pages in category "Ships of the line" The following 7 pages are in this category, out of 7 total.