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San Carlo Borromeo-class ship of the line: For Venetian Navy. [4] 19 March Great Britain: Moody Janvrin Lepe: Greenwich: Fourth rate: For Royal Navy. 24 March Kingdom of France: Jacques-Luc Coulomb Brest: L'Intrépide: Sceptre-class ship of the line: For French Navy. [5] March Kingdom of France: Jacques-Luc Coulomb Brest: Fougueux: Third rate ...
14 October 1747: Fate: Sold for breaking up, completed by 16 February 1763: General characteristics; Class and type: 74-gun third rate ship of the line: Tons burthen: 1,590 28 ⁄ 94 bm as remeasured by the British: Length: 164 ft 3 in (50.1 m) (overall) 133 ft 11 in (40.8 m) (keel) Beam: 47 ft 3 in (14.4 m) Depth of hold: 20 ft 7.5 in (6.29 m ...
In July 1747, the Spanish ship of the line Glorioso, launched at Havana in 1739 and completed in 1740, and under the command of Captain Pedro Messia de la Cerda, was returning to Spain from America, carrying a large shipment of about four million silver dollars, when on 25 July, off the island of Flores, one of the Azores, a British merchant convoy was sighted blurred by the fog.
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.
HMS Assistance was a 50-gun fourth rate ship of the line of the Royal Navy, built at a private yard on the River Medway to the draught specified by the 1745 Establishment, and launched on 22 December 1747. [1] Assistance served until 1773, when she was sold out of the navy. [1]
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.
HMS Greenwich was a 50-gun fourth rate ship of the line of the Royal Navy.She was built during the War of the Austrian Succession, and went on to see action in the Seven Years' War, during which she was captured by the French and taken into their service under the same name.
HMS Tavistock was a 50-gun fourth rate ship of the line of the Royal Navy. She was built by Hugh Blaydes at Blaydes Yard in Kingston upon Hull to the draught specified in the 1745 Establishment. She was fitted out in Portsmouth and launched on 26 August 1747. [1]