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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.
This is an alphabetical list of the names of all ships that have been in service with the Royal Navy, or with predecessor fleets formally in the service of the Kingdom of England or the Commonwealth of England. The list also includes fictional vessels which have prominently featured in literature about the Royal Navy.
San Lorenzo Zustinian-class ship of the line: For Venetian Navy. [1] [2] 16 May Republic of Venice: Francesco di Angelo di Ponti Corfu: Lyon Trionfante: Third Rate For Venetian Navy. [3] [4] 23 May Spain: Pasajes: Real Felipe: Third rate: For Spanish Navy. [5] May Republic of Venice: Gerusalemme: Sloop of War: For Venetian Navy. [6] May ...
The Sail and Steam Navy List: All the Ships of the Royal Navy 1815–1889. London: Chatham Publishing. ISBN 978-1-86176-032-6. OCLC 52620555. Rif Winfield, British Warships in the Age of Sail 1714–1792: Design, Construction, Careers and Fates (Seaforth Publishing, 2007).
HMS Peregrine Galley was a 20-gun sixth-rate ship of the Royal Navy, built in 1699-1700 at Sheerness Dockyard by Master Shipwright William Lee to a design by Rear-Admiral the Marquis of Carmarthen. She was generally employed as a Royal yacht and in 1716 she was officially renamed HMS Carolina and converted to a permanent Royal yacht.
The total displacement of the Royal Navy's commissioned and active ships is approximately 393,000 tonnes. The Royal Navy also includes a number of smaller non-commissioned assets. The naval training vessels Brecon and Hindostan can be found based at the Royal Navy stone frigates HMS Raleigh and the Britannia Royal Naval College, respectively
Scale plan of the HMS Dorsetshire, a Burford-class ship. The Burford class were three 68-gun third-rate ships of the line designed for the Royal Navy by Sir Joseph Allin.The Burford ships were almost the last "70-gun" (in practice 68-gun) ships designed by Allin.
The ship was large for its armament: with a keel length of 43.2 metres (142 ft) it rivalled the British 100-gun first-rate HMS Royal William, although with a width of 13.4 metres (44 ft), it was almost 2 metres (6.6 ft) narrower than the Royal William. [4] Almost all the ships of this class were planned and started before 1739, completed to a ...