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Saint-Esprit, a ship of the line of the French Navy Two fleets in their line of battle during the Battle of Cuddalore HMS Hercule as depicted in her fight against the frigate Poursuivante 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.
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]
The larger ships were better suited for conversion into iron-clads and were held in reserve for that purpose. [7] Similarly, the sailing line-of-battle ships HMS Albion and HMS Bombay completed their conversion to steam line-of-battle ships on 21 May and 25 June 1861 respectively.
Two fleets in their line of battle during the Battle of Cuddalore (French Navy to the left, Royal Navy to the right) Nicholas Pocock, The Battle of Copenhagen, 2 April 1801 (undated), Royal Museums Greenwich. The line of battle or the battle line [1] is a tactic in naval warfare in which a fleet of ships forms a line end to end. The first ...
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.
After wearing, the order of sailing was reversed, so that the former head was now the rear. During the battle itself the entire line broke into small units and individual ships. The combined fleet consisted of 40 vessels with 18 French ships of the line and 15 Spanish ships of the line. [74]
Ivan Konstantinovich Aivazovsky, Inspection of the Black Sea Fleet in 1849, 1886. This is a list of Russian ships of the line from the period 1668–1860: The format is: Name, number of guns (rank/real amount), launch year (A = built in Arkhangelsk), fate (service = combat service, BU = broken up)
HMS Ajax was an Ajax-class 74-gun third-rate ship of the line of the British Royal Navy. She was built by John Randall & Co of Rotherhithe and launched on the Thames on 3 March 1798. Ajax participated in the Egyptian operation of 1801 , the Battle of Cape Finisterre in 1805 and the Battle of Trafalgar , before she was lost to a disastrous fire ...