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The British first-rate HMS Victory. In the rating system of the Royal Navy used to categorise sailing warships, a first rate was the designation for the largest ships of the line.
Packet ship: For private owner. [10] 25 March India: ... First rate: For Royal Navy. 13 September ... British Tar: Merchantman: For private owner.
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.
For British East India Company. [2] ... First rate: For French Navy. [3] 20 March ... Full-rigged ship: For private owner. Unknown date
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.
First rate: For Royal Navy. [18] 25 September Great Britain: John Perry Blackwall Yard: Theseus: Culloden-class ship of the line: For Royal Navy. 25 September Great Britain: Perry Blackwall: Thetis: East Indiaman: For British East India Company. 2 October Dutch Republic: Amsterdam: Zephier: Fifth rate: For Dutch Navy. [19] 6 October Great ...
Full-rigged ship: For private owner. [44] August Upper Canada: Quebec City: Gowdies: Full-rigged ship: For private owner. [44] August Upper Canada: Quebec City: Mary: Full-rigged ship: For private owner. [44] August United Kingdom: Robert Davy Topsham: Pelican: Cruizer-class brig-sloop: For Royal Navy. 7 September Russia: G. S. Isakov Saint ...
For private owner. 23 October India: Matthew Smith Calcutta: Susan: Merchantman: For private owner. 25 October United Kingdom: John Barton Limehouse: Granicus: Scamander-class frigate: For Royal Navy. [62] 26 October French First Empire: Schuyt Amsterdam: Couronne: Téméraire-class ship of the line: For French Navy. 26 October United Kingdom ...