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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.
19th-century naval ships (6 C, 2 P) V. Victorian-era ships (6 C, 4 P) Pages in category "19th-century ships" The following 16 pages are in this category, out of 16 total.
Trincomalee is one of two surviving British frigates of her era—her near-sister HMS Unicorn (of the modified Leda class) is now a museum ship in Dundee.After being ordered on 30 October 1812, Trincomalee was built in Bombay, India, by the Wadia family [1] of shipwrights in teak, due to oak shortages in Britain as a result of shipbuilding drives for the Napoleonic Wars.
The British Pacific Station's ships off California were stronger in ships, guns and men. [ 35 ] Hearing rumors of possible Californio military action against the newly arrived settlers in California (this had already happened in 1840), [ 38 ] some settlers decided to neutralize the small Californio garrison at Sonoma, California .
Lyon, David and Winfield, Rif, The Sail and Steam Navy List, All the Ships of the Royal Navy 1815–1889, pub Chatham, 2004, ISBN 1-86176-032-9; Parkes, Oscar British Battleships, first published Seeley, Service & Co., 1957, published United States Naval Institute Press, 1990. ISBN 1-55750-075-4
This is a list of the oldest ships in the world which have survived to this day with exceptions to certain categories. The ships on the main list, which include warships, yachts, tall ships, and vessels recovered during archaeological excavations, all date to between 500 AD and 1918; earlier ships are covered in the list of surviving ancient ships.
19th-century naval ships of the Netherlands (54 P) S. Spanish–American War naval ships (7 C) 19th-century submarines (2 C, 19 P) V. Victorian-era naval ships (10 C)
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 ...