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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.
British Warships in the Age of Sail 1603–1714: Design, Construction, Careers and Fates by Rif Winfield, pub Seaforth Publishing, 2009. ISBN 978-1-84832-040-6. Tudor Sea Power: the Foundation of Greatness, by David Childs, pub Seaforth Publishing, 2009. ISBN 978-1-84832-031-4. The Tudor Navy, by Arthur Nelson, pub Conways, 2001. ISBN 0-85177 ...
Pages in category "1800s ships" The following 135 pages are in this category, out of 135 total. This list may not reflect recent changes. A.
British Warships in the Age of Sail 1817–1863: Design, Construction, Careers and Fates (2014) ISBN 978-1-84832-169-4. Pending availability of the fourth volume in the series, sailing warships after 1817 were covered (in somewhat less detail) by The Sail and Steam Navy List , 1815–1889 , by David Lyon and Rif Winfield.
She was also the world's second largest warship until the completion of HMS Warrior, Britain's first ironclad battleship, in 1861. Victoria's hull was 79.2 metres (260 feet) long and 18.3 metres (60 feet) wide. She had a medium draught of 8.4 metres (28 feet). Her hull was heavily strapped with diagonal iron riders for extra stability.
An ironclad was a steam-propelled warship in the early part of the second half of the 19th century, protected by iron or steel armour plates. The term battleship was not used by the Admiralty until the early 1880s [citation needed], with the construction of the Colossus class. Prior to this point, a wide range of descriptions were used.
Hero (from the 1970s BBC drama series Warship; portrayed by the Leander-class frigate HMS Phoebe, among others) Makepeace (generic destroyer from the 1960s radio comedy The Navy Lark) HMS Monarch (2) (Type 23 frigate in the Action Stations exhibit at Portsmouth Historic Dockyard)
The initial meaning of frigate in English/British naval service was a fast sailing warship, usually with a relatively low superstructure and a high length:breadth ratio—as distinct from the heavily armed but slow "great ships" with high fore- and after-castles.