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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 .
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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 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
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.
Arctic exploration ship Purchased in 1850 as Ptarmigan: Retired 1879 and broken up HMS Halifax (1768) Schooner 1768 Built at Halifax, Nova Scotia, the first Royal Navy ship built in Canada Lost 1775 HMS Halifax (1780) Sloop 1777 as United States Navy USS Ranger: Captured 1780 Decommissioned in 1781 HMS Halifax (1806) Sloop 1806
With the ten-ship Nimitz class complete by 2009, October 2013 saw the launch of Gerald R. Ford, lead ship of the planned ten-ship Gerald R. Ford class. This was followed by the launch of John F. Kennedy (CVN-79) in October 2019, while construction is underway on Enterprise (CVN-80) and Doris Miller (CVN-81) .
The 1719 Establishment was a set of mandatory requirements governing the construction of all Royal Navy warships capable of carrying more than 20 naval long guns.It was designed to bring economies of scale through uniform vessel design, and ensure a degree of certainty about vessel capability once at sea, and was applied to all vessels from the first-rate to the fifth-rate.