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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.
v. t. e. The history of the Royal Navy reached an important juncture in 1707, when the Act of Union merged the kingdoms of England and Scotland into the Kingdom of Great Britain, following a century of personal union between the two countries. This had the effect of merging the Royal Scots Navy into the Royal Navy.
HMS Crescent 1784 – wrecked on the Coast of Jutland on 6 December 1808. HMS Romulus 1785 – converted to troopship in 1799, hulked as hospital ship at Bermuda in 1813, broken up 1816. Minerva class 38-gun fifth rates 1780–82, designed by Edward Hunt. HMS Minerva 1780 – broken up 1803.
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 ...
First-rate. 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. Originating in the Jacobean era with the designation of Ships Royal capable of carrying at least 400 men, the size and establishment of first-rates ...
Marine Services. v. t. e. Properly speaking, the history of the Royal Navy began in 1546 with the establishment of the "Navy Royal" by Henry VIII. [1] This became the Parliamentary Navy during the period of the Commonwealth with the modern incarnation of Royal Navy established in 1660 following the Restoration of King Charles II to the throne ...
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.
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.