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A two-decker is a sail warship which carried her guns on two fully armed decks. [1] Usually additional guns were carried on the upper works (forecastle and quarterdeck), but this was not a continuous battery and thus not counted as a full gun deck. Two-deckers ranged all the way from the small 40-gun Fifth rate up to 80- or even 90-gun ships of ...
[Note 2] Some naval officers suggested that she should be restricted to defending the Bay of Cádiz. Santísima Trinidad remains notable as one of the few four-decker ships of the line ever built. The U.S. Navy constructed the four-deck, 136-gun Pennsylvania and the French Navy, the 120-gun Valmy (both with similar flush deck arrangement).
A Spanish galleon (left) firing its cannons at a Dutch warship (right). Cornelis Verbeeck, c. 1618–1620 A Spanish galleon Carracks, galleon (center/right), square rigged caravel (below), galley and fusta (galliot) depicted by D. João de Castro on the "Suez Expedition" (part of the Portuguese Armada of 72 ships sent against the Ottoman fleet anchor in Suez, Egypt, in response to its entry in ...
Built (all at Havana) as 80-gun warships, with a length of 197 Burgos feet (180 British feet), these ships were later reconstructed as 94-gun warships, (and in the case of the San Carlos, subsequently rebuilt as a three-decker of 112 guns. San Carlos 80-gun (launched 30 April 1765) - Converted to 112-gun three-decker in 1801, BU 1819 [citation ...
Santísima Trinidad was a galleon destined for merchant shipping between the Philippines and México.Launched in 1751, she was one of the largest Manila galleons built. . Officially named Santísima Trinidad y Nuestra Señora del Buen Fin, and familiarly known as The Mighty (Spanish: El Poderoso), she is not to be confused with the ship-of-the-line the Nuestra Señora de la Santísima Trinidad ...
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.
New artifacts have been found on the legendary Spanish galleon San ... The ship had been heading back from the New World to the court of King Philip V of Spain, laden with treasures such as chests ...
Sovereign of the Seas, 1637, by J Payne. During the transition from galleons to more frigate-like warships (1600 – 1650) there was a general awareness that the reduction in topweight afforded by the removal of upperworks made ships better sailers; Rear Admiral Sir William Symonds noted after the launch of Sovereign of the Seas that she was "cut down" and made a safe and fast ship.