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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.
Full-rigged ship: For Messrs. C. Eggington & Sons. [41] 4 April France: Jean Michel Segondat Cherbourg: Friedland: Océan-class ship of the line: For French Navy. [42] [43] 6 April United Kingdom: Woolwich Dockyard: Cygnet: Alert-class brig-sloop: For Royal Navy. [44] [4] 7 April United Kingdom: Austin & Mills Sunderland: Mayborough: Brig
The National Historic Fleet is a list of historic ships and vessels located in the United Kingdom, under the National Historic Ships register. National Historic Ships UK is an advisory body which advises the Secretary of State for Culture, Media and Sport and other public bodies on ship preservation and funding priorities. As part of this remit ...
The original 1920s edition of the H. P. Gibson naval board game Dover Patrol used a number of real RN ship names, but generally attached them to different ship classes. Thus the " Flagships " were H.M.S. Nelson and Drake , and the " Super Dreadnoughts " were H.M.S. Australia , New Zealand , Canada and India , but few of these resembled the ...
There are two lists of Royal Navy ships: List of active Royal Navy ships lists all currently commissioned vessels in the Royal Navy. List of ship names of the Royal Navy lists all names that Royal Navy ships have ever borne.
The Maritime history of the United Kingdom involves events including shipping, ports, navigation, and seamen, as well as marine sciences, exploration, trade, and maritime themes in the arts from the creation of the kingdom of Great Britain [1] as a united, sovereign state, on 1 May 1707 in accordance with the Treaty of Union, signed on 22 July 1706. [2]
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The post ships, generally of 20 or 24 guns, were in practice the continuation of the earlier sixth rates. The Napoleonic War era post ships were later re-armed with (many being completed with) 32-pounder carronades instead of nine-pounder guns; after 1817 most of the survivors (except the Conway class), were re-classified as sloops.