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Number of main guns follows name (see rating system of the Royal Navy) The larger ships are listed in pages 159–160 of The Ship of the Line Volume I, by Brian Lavery, published by Conways, 1983, ISBN 0-85177-252-8, and more fully in British Warships in the Age of Sail: 1603–1714, by Rif Winfield, published by Seaforth Publishing, 2009, ISBN ...
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.
The prefix "English ship" has normally been used of naval vessels before the late 17th century; "His Majesty's Ship" was not official usage at the time.) The new regime, isolated and threatened from all sides, dramatically expanded the Commonwealth Navy, which became the most powerful in the world. [102]
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.
A 1784 painting of French ship of the line Saint-Esprit by Nicholas Pocock. 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.
The French Penelope. Baden-Württemberg, the lead ship of her class of frigates in the German Navy, is currently the largest frigate in the world. A frigate (/ ˈfrɪɡət /) is a type of warship. In different eras, the roles and capabilities of ships classified as frigates have varied. The name frigate in the 17th to early 18th centuries was ...
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 ...
Squirrel class 20 guns, 1755–56; like the Seaford class built to the lines of HMY Royal Caroline. HMS Squirrel 1755 – sold 1783. HMS Deal Castle 1756 – lost off Puerto Rico in the Great West Indian Hurricane of 1780. Sphinx class 20 guns 1775–81; designed by John Williams. HMS Sphinx 1775 – broken up 1811.