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Articles: Warship, Naval warfare. Another great find from the 1728 Cyclopaedia. It's like an anatomy chart for 18th century warships. The image could probably handle a little more cleanup, but as it stands, it's a highly detailed and informative diagram. Nominate and support. - BRIAN 0918 07:19, 19 March 2006 (UTC) Support. See below!
18th; 19th; 20th; 21st; ... 1790s ships (11 C, 145 P) Pages in category "18th-century ships" The following 14 pages are in this category, out of 14 total.
In the 17th century fleets could consist of almost a hundred ships of various sizes, but by the middle of the 18th century, ship-of-the-line design had settled on a few standard types: older two-deckers (i.e., with two complete decks of guns firing through side ports) of 50 guns (which were too weak for the battle line but could be used to ...
Over time the hoy evolved in terms of its design and use. In the fifteenth century a hoy might be a small spritsail-rigged warship like a cromster. Like the earlier forms of the French chaloupe, it could be a heavy and unseaworthy harbour boat or a small coastal sailing vessel (latterly, the chaloupe was a pulling cutter – nowadays motorized).
In medieval times, warships had a single deck, with raised structures at each end: the "forecastle" in the front, and the "aftercastle" in the rear.Following the introduction of cannon, the aftercastle was gradually replaced with a simpler structure consisting of the halfdeck above the main deck, extending forwards from the stern to the mainmast; and above that the quarterdeck, extending about ...
A 1728 diagram illustrating a first- and a third-rate ship. The rating system of the Royal Navy and its predecessors was used by the Royal Navy between the beginning of the 17th century and the middle of the 19th century to categorise sailing warships, initially classing them according to their assigned complement of men, and later according to the number of their carriage-mounted guns.
These ships were easy to produce and were cheap, and thus nearly every corsair captain had at least one xebec in his fleet. They could be of varying sizes. Some ships had only three guns [4] while others had up to forty. [5] Most xebecs had around 20–30 cannons, and the overwhelming majority had swivel guns equipped. [6] [7]
Principe de Asturias ( Spain): Battle of Cape Passaro, 11 August. The 70-gun ship was captured by HMS Breda and HMS Captain. Protestant Caesar ( Great Britain): The merchant ship was captured on 9 April by Adventure, Revenge, Queen Anne's Revenge, and other ships (all Blackbeard). She was looted, burnt and sunk.