For ships which were part of the English Navy prior to 1660, see List of early warships of the English Navy.

This is a list of ships of the line of the Royal Navy

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, and the United Kingdom

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. The list dates from 1660, the year in which the Royal Navy came into being after the restoration

English Restoration

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, up until the emergence of the battleship

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 around 1880, as defined by the Admiralty

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.

The early Restoration period (1660-1677)

This list includes several earlier ships which were rebuilt for the Royal Navy in this period – specifically the first rate Royal Prince (in 1663), the second rate Victory (in 1666), the third rate Montagu (in 1675) and the fourth rates Bonaventure (in 1663) and Constant Warwich (in 1666). The process, which generally involved the dismantling in dry dock of the old ship and constructing it to a new design incorporating part of the materials from the old vessel, produced what were in effect substantially new ships with altered dimensions and sizes, and generally mounting a somewhat larger number of guns.

First rates

• Royal Prince 92 (rebuilt 1663) – taken and burnt by the Dutch 1666.
• Charles
  HMS Charles (1668)
  HMS Charles was 96-gun first-rate ship of the line of the Royal Navy, built by Christopher Pett at Deptford Dockyard until his death in March 1668, then completed by Jonas Shish after being launched in the same month. Her name was formally Charles the Second, but she was known simply as Charles,...
  
   96 (1668) – renamed St George 1687, reclassed as second rate 1691, rebuilt 1701.
• St Andrew
  HMS St Andrew (1670)
  HMS St Andrew was a 96-gun first-rate ship of the line of the Royal Navy, built at Woolwich Dockyard by Christopher Pett until his death in March 1668, and then completed by Jonas Shish, and launched in 1670....
  
   96 (1670) – renamed Royal Anne when rebuilt 1704.
• London
  HMS London (1670)
  HMS London was a 96-gun first-rate ship of the line of the Royal Navy, built by Christopher Pett at Deptford Dockyard until his death in March 1668, and completed by Jonas Shish and launched in 1670....
  
   96 (1670) – broken up 1701.
• Prince
  HMS Prince (1670)
  HMS Prince was a 100-gun first rate ship of the line of the Royal Navy, built by Phineas Pett II at Deptford Dockyard and launched in 1670. A contemporary shipyard model and a drawing by Willem van de Velde the Elder give a good impression how she looked...
  
   100 (1670) – repaired and renamed Royal William 1692, rebuilt 1719.
• Royal James
  HMS Royal James (1671)
  HMS Royal James was a 102-gun first rate ship of the line of the English Royal Navy, built by Sir Anthony Deane at Portsmouth Dockyard at a cost of £24,000, and launched on 31 March 1671....
  
   100 (1671) – burned in action 1672.
• Royal Charles
  HMS Royal Charles (1673)
  HMS Royal Charles was a 100-gun first-rate ship of the line of the Royal Navy, designed and built by Sir Anthony Deane at Portsmouth Dockyard, where she was launched and completed by his successor as Master Shipwright, Daniel Furzer, in March 1673...
  
   100 (1673) – repaired and renamed Queen 1693, rebuilt and renamed Royal George in 1715.
• Royal James
  HMS Royal James (1675)
  HMS Royal James was a 100-gun first-rate ship of the line of the Royal Navy, designed by Sir Anthony Deane and built by his successor as Master Shipwright at Portsmouth Dockyard, Daniel Furzer, and launched in 1675. She was renamed HMS Victory on 7 March 1691 as the old second rate Victory of 1666...
  
   100 (1675) – renamed Victory 1691, then Royal George 1714, then Victory again in 1715; burnt by accident 1721.

Second rates

• Royal Katherine
  HMS Royal Katherine (1664)
  HMS Royal Katherine was an 84-gun second-rate ship of the line of the Royal Navy, launched in 1664 at Woolwich Dockyard.In the Second Anglo-Dutch War she fought at the Battle of Lowestoft , the Four Days' Battle , and the St. James's Day Battle...
  
   76 (1664) – rebuilt 1702.
• Royal Oak
  HMS Royal Oak (1664)
  HMS Royal Oak was a 76-gun second rate ship of the line of the Royal Navy, launched in 1664 at Portsmouth Dockyard.Royal Oak was burnt by the Dutch during their Raid on the Medway in 1667....
  
   76 (1664) – burned by the Dutch 1667.
• Loyal London
  HMS Loyal London (1666)
  Loyal London was an 80-gun second-rate ship of the line of the English Royal Navy, launched on 10 June 1666 at Deptford Dockyard with a burthen of 1,236 tons...
  
   80 (1666) – burned by the Dutch 1667.
• Victory 76 (Rebuilt 1666) – broken up 1691.
• French Ruby 66 (1666) – a prize, Le Rubis, captured from the French, hulked 1682 after storm damage and broken up 1685.
• St Michael
  HMS St Michael (1669)
  HMS St Michael was a 90-gun second rate ship of the line of the Royal Navy, built by John Tippetts of Portsmouth Dockyard and launched in 1669....
  
   90 (1669) – re-classed as a first rate 1692, then back to a second rate 1689; rebuilt and renamed Marlborough in 1708.

Third rates

• Clove Tree 62 (1665) – a prize, Nagelboom, captured from the Dutch, retaken by them 1666.
• House of Sweeds 70 (1665) – a prize captured from the Dutch, sunk as a blockship in the Thames 1667.
• Golden Phoenix 70 (1665) – a prize captured from the Dutch, sunk as a blockship in the Thames 1667.
• Slothany 60 (1665) – a prize captured from the Dutch, hulked 1667, sold 1686.
• Helverson
  HMS Helverson
  HMS Helverson was formerly Hilversum of the Admiralty of Amsterdam. She was built around 1655 as a third rate frigate. The first master of the vessel was Captain Albert Mathijsen....
  
   60 (1665) – a prize captured from the Dutch, sunk as a blockship in the Medway 1667.
• Cambridge
  HMS Cambridge (1666)
  HMS Cambridge was a 70-gun third rate ship of the line of the Royal Navy, launched in 1666 at Deptford Dockyard.Cambridge was wrecked in 1694....
  
   64 (1666) – wrecked 1694.
• Warspite
  HMS Warspite (1666)
  HMS Warspite was a 70-gun third-rate ship of the line of the Royal Navy, launched in 1666 at Blackwall Yard. This second Warspite was one of the five ships designed to carry more provisions and lower deck guns higher above the water than French and Dutch equivalents...
  
   64 (1666) – rebuilt 1702.
• Defiance
  HMS Defiance (1666)
  HMS Defiance was a 64-gun third rate ship of the line of the English Royal Navy, ordered on 26 October 1664 under the new construction programme of that year, and launched on 27 March 1666 at William Castle's private shipyard at Deptford in the presence of King Charles II.She was commissioned under...
  
   64 (1666) – burned by accident 1668.
• Rupert
  HMS Rupert (1666)
  HMS Rupert was a 64-gun third rate ship of the line of the Royal Navy, ordered on 26 October 1664 as part of the ship construction programme of that year...
  
   64 (1666) – rebuilt 1703.
• Resolution
  HMS Resolution (1667)
  HMS Resolution was a 70-gun third-rate ship of the line of the Royal Navy, launched at Harwich Dockyard in 6 December 1667. She was one of only three third rate vessels designed and built by the noted maritime architect Sir Anthony Deane.-History:...
  
   64 (1667) – rebuilt 1698.
• Monmouth
  HMS Monmouth (1667)
  HMS Monmouth was a 66-gun third-rate ship of the line of the Royal Navy, and was the second ship to be named for the town of Monmouth in Wales. She served from 1667 to 1767, winning ten battle honours over a century of active service...
  
   64 (1667) – rebuilt 1700.
• Edgar
  HMS Edgar (1668)
  HMS Edgar was a 72-gun third rate ship of the line of the Royal Navy, built by Baylie of Bristol and launched in 1668. By 1685 she was carrying 74 guns....
  
   72 (1668) – rebuilt 1700.
• Swiftsure
  HMS Swiftsure (1673)
  HMS Swiftsure was a 70-gun third-rate ship of the line of the Royal Navy, built by Sir Anthony Deane at Harwich, and launched in 1673. By 1685 she had been reduced to a 66-gun ship.In 1692 she saw action at the Battles of Barfleur and La Hogue....
  
   66 (1673) – rebuilt 1696.
• Harwich
  HMS Harwich (1674)
  HMS Harwich was a 70-gun third rate ship of the line of the English Royal Navy, built by Sir Anthony Deane at Harwich and launched in 1674. By 1685 she was carrying only 64 guns.Harwich was wrecked in 1691....
  
   66 (1674) – wrecked 1691.
• Royal Oak
  HMS Royal Oak (1674)
  HMS Royal Oak was a 74-gun third rate ship of the line of the Royal Navy, built by Jonas Shish at Deptford and launched in 1674. She was one of only three Royal Navy ships to be equipped with the Rupertinoe naval gun...
  
   70 (1674) – rebuilt 1713.
• Defiance
  HMS Defiance (1675)
  HMS Defiance was a 64-gun third rate ship of the line of the Royal Navy, built by Phineas Pett II at Chatham Dockyard, and launched in 1675.In the summer of 1678, Defiance was under the command of John Ernle....
  
   64 (1675) – rebuilt 1695.
• Arms of Rotterdam 60 (1674) – a prize captured from the Dutch, hulked 1675, broken up 1703.
• Montagu 62 – built as Lyme in 1654, rebuilt as Montagu in 1675 and again rebuilt in 1698

Fourth rates

• Bonaventure
  HMS Bonaventure (1650)
  President was a 38-gun fourth rate frigate of the Royal Navy, originally built for the navy of the Commonwealth of England by Peter Pett I at Deptford Dockyard, and launched in 1650....
  
   48 – previously named HMS President. Renamed HMS Bonaventure in 1660, rebuilt in 1666 and broken up for a rebuild in 1711. Re-launched in 1711 as a 50-gun fourth rate. Renamed Argyll in 1715, rebuilt in 1722 and sunk as a breakwater in 1748
• West Friesland 54 (1665) – a prize, Westfriesland, captured from the Dutch, sold 1667.
• Seven Oaks 52 (1665) – a prize, Zevenwolden, captured from the Dutch, retaken by them 1666.
• Charles V 52 (1665) – a prize, Carolus Quintus, captured from the Dutch, burned by them 1667.
• Guilder de Ruyter 50 (1665) – a prize, Geldersche Ruiter, captured from the Dutch, sold 1667.
• Maria Sancta 50 (1665) – a prize, Sint Marie, captured from the Dutch, burned by them 1667.
• Mars 50 (1665) – a prize, Mars, captured from the Dutch, sold 1667.
• Delfe 48 (1665) – a prize, Delft, captured from the Dutch, sold 1668.
• St Paul 48 (1665) – a prize, Sint Paulus, captured from the Dutch, burned in action 1666.
• Hope 44 (1665) – a prize, Hoop, captured from the Dutch, wrecked 1666.
• Black Spread Eagle 44 (1665) – a prize, Groningen, captured from the Dutch, sunk in action 1666.
• Golden Lion 42 (1665) – a prize, Gouden Leeuw, captured from the Dutch, given to Guinea Company 1668.
• Zealand 42 (1665) – a prize, Zeelandia, captured from the Dutch, sold 1667.
• Unity
  HMS Unity (1665)
  HMS Unity was a 42-gun fourth-rate ship of the line of the English Royal Navy, formerly the Dutch warship Eendracht, captured from the Dutch on 22 February 1665 by the English warships Yarmouth, Diamond and Mermaid....
  
   42 (1665) – a prize, Eendracht, captured from the Dutch, retaken by them 1667.
• Young Prince 38 (1665) – a prize, Jonge Prins, captured from the Dutch, expended as a fireship 1666.
• Black Bull 36 (1665) – a prize, Edam, captured from the Dutch, retaken and sunk by them 1666.
• Constant Warwick 42 – rebuilt as in 1666, captured by the French 1691.
• St Patrick
  HMS St Patrick (1666)
  HMS Saint Patrick was a 50-gun fourth-rate ship of the line of the English Royal Navy. In 1665, during the Second Anglo-Dutch War, the Navy Committee of Parliament adopted a supplement to their 1664 Programme which provided for one third rate and three fourth rates...
  
   48 (1666) – captured by the Dutch 1667.
• Greenwich
  HMS Greenwich (1666)
  HMS Greenwich was a 54-gun fourth-rate ship of the line of the Royal Navy, built by Christopher Pett at Woolwich Dockyard and launched in 1666....
  
   54 (1666) – rebuilt 1699.
• St David
  HMS St David (1667)
  HMS St David was a 54-gun fourth rate ship of the line of the English Royal Navy, launched in 1667 at Lydney.She foundered in Portsmouth Harbour in 1690 and was raised in 1691 under the supervision of Edmund Dummer, Surveyor of the Navy....
  
   54 (1667) – sunk at Portsmouth 1690, raised but sold 1713.
• Stathouse van Harlem 46 (1667) – a prize, Raadhuis van Haarlem, captured from the Dutch, sunk as a breakwater at Sheerness 1690.
• Stavoreen 48 (1672) – a prize captured from the Dutch, sold 1682.
• Arms of Terver 48 (1673) – a prize captured from the Dutch, sold 1682.
• Oxford
  HMS Oxford (1674)
  HMS Oxford was a 54-gun fourth rate ship of the line of the Royal Navy, built by Francis Baylie in Bristol and launched in June 1674. Her guns comprised twenty-two 24-pounders on the lower deck, with twenty-two large sakers on the upper deck and ten smaller sakers on the quarter deck.On 23...
  
   54 (1674) – rebuilt 1702.
• Woolwich
  HMS Woolwich (1675)
  HMS Woolwich was a 54-gun fourth rate ship of the line of the Royal Navy, built by Phineas Pett III at Woolwich Dockyard and launched in 1675. She underwent a rebuild in 1702....
  
   54 (1675) – rebuilt 1702.
• Kingfisher
  HMS Kingfisher (1675)
  HMS Kingfisher was a 46-gun fourth-rate ship of the line of the Royal Navy, built by Phineas Pett III at Woolwich Dockyard and launched in 1675. She was specially designed to counter the attacks of Algerine corsairs in the Mediterranean by masquerading as a merchantman, which she achieved by...
  
   46 (1675) – a specialised fourth rate designed for a role similar to that of the Q-ships of 1914-18, rather than for the battle fleet; rebuilt 1699.

The above list excludes two smaller fourth rates not designed for the line of battle – the galley-frigates Charles Galley and James Galley of 1676. It also excludes four fifth rates of 36 guns (the Falcon and Sweepstakes of 1666, the Nonsuch of 1668, and the Phoenix of 1671) which were re-classed as 42-gun fourth rates some years after their original completion, but later reverted to being fifth rates.

The “Thirty Ships” programme of 1677 (1677-1688)

• First rate of 100 guns
  • Britannia
    HMS Britannia (1682)
    HMS Britannia was a 100-gun first rate ship of the line of the Royal Navy, built by Phineas Pett II at Chatham Dockyard, and launched in 1682....
    
     100 (28 June 1682) – broken up 1715
• Second rates of 90 guns
  • Vanguard
    HMS Vanguard (1678)
    HMS Vanguard was a 90-gun second-rate ship of the line of the Royal Navy, built at Portsmouth Dockyard and launched in 1678.She ran onto Goodwin Sands in 1690, but was fortunate enough to be hauled off by the boatmen of Deal....
    
     90 (November 1678) – wrecked in the Great Storm of 1703
    Great Storm of 1703
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  • Windsor Castle 90 (4 March 1679) – wrecked 1693
  • Sandwich
    HMS Sandwich (1679)
    HMS Sandwich was a 90-gun second rate ship of the line of the Royal Navy, launched in 1679 at Harwich.She underwent a rebuild at Chatham Dockyard, from where she was relaunched on 21 April 1712 as a 90-gun second rate built to the 1706 Establishment...
    
     90 (May 1679) – rebuilt 1709-1715; lazarette
    Lazarette
    A lazarette is a special area on a boat. It is often an area near or aft of the cockpit. The word is similar to and probably derived from Lazaretto....
    
     1752, broken up 1770
  • Duchess
    HMS Duchess (1679)
    HMS Duchess was a 90-gun second rate ship of the line of the Royal Navy, built by John Shish at Deptford Dockyard, and launched in 1679. She was renamed HMS Princess Anne in 1701, HMS Windsor Castle in 1702, and HMS Blenheim in 1706....
    
     90 (May 1679) – renamed Princess Anne 31 December 1701, renamed Windsor Castle 17 March 1702, renamed Blenheim 18 December 1706; rebuilt 1708-09; broken up 1763.
  • Albemarle
    HMS Albemarle (1680)
    HMS Albemarle was a 90-gun second rate ship of the line of the Royal Navy, launched in 1680 at Harwich.She was rebuilt in 1704 at Chatham Dockyard, remaining a 90-gun second rater. She was also renamed HMS Union at this time...
    
     90 (29 October 1680) – rebuilt 1701-04; renamed Union 29 December 1709, broken up 1749
  • Neptune
    HMS Neptune (1683)
    HMS Neptune was a 90-gun second rate ship of the line of the Royal Navy. She was built under the 1677 "Thirty Great Ships" Programme and launched in 1683 at Deptford Dockyard. She was first commissioned in 1690 under Captain Thomas Gardiner, as the flagship of Vice-Admiral George Rooke...
    
     90 (17 April 1683) – rebuilt 1708-10
  • Duke
    HMS Duke (1682)
    HMS Duke was a 90-gun second rate ship of the line of the Royal Navy, launched in 1682 at Woolwich Dockyard.She underwent a rebuild in 1701 as another 90-gun second rate, and was renamed HMS Prince George...
    
     90 (13 June 1682) – rebuilt 1700-01 and renamed Prince George 31 December 1701; broken up to rebuild 1719
  • Ossory
    HMS Ossory (1682)
    HMS Ossory was a 90-gun second rate ship of the line of the Royal Navy, launched in 1682 at Portsmouth Dockyard. She was renamed HMS Prince in 1705....
    
     90 (24 August 1682) – rebuilt 1708-11 and renamed Princess 2 January 1716, then Princess Royal 26 July 1728
  • Coronation
    HMS Coronation (1685)
    Coronation was a 90-gun second-rate ship of the line of the English Royal Navy, built at Portsmouth Dockyard as part of the '30 great ships programme' of 1677, and launched in 1685....
    
     90 (23 May 1685) – wrecked 1691
• Third rates of 70 guns
  • Lenox 70 (1678)
  • Hampton Court
    HMS Hampton Court (1678)
    HMS Hampton Court was a 70-gun third rate ship of the line of the Royal Navy, launched at Deptford Dockyard in 1678.She underwent a rebuild in 1701 at Blackwall Yard, remaining a 70-gun third rate...
    
     70 (1678)
  • Anne
    HMS Anne (1678)
    HMS Anne was a 70-gun third rate ship of the line of the English Royal Navy, built by Phineas Pett II at Chatham Dockyard and launched in 1678....
    
     70 (1678) – Burnt 1690
  • Captain
    HMS Captain (1678)
    HMS Captain was a 70-gun third rate ship of the line of the Royal Navy, launched at Woolwich Dockyard in 1678.She underwent her first rebuild at Portsmouth Dockyard, where she was reconstructed as a 70-gun third rate built to the 1706 Establishment, and relaunched on 6 July 1708...
    
     70 (1678)
  • Restoration
    HMS Restoration (1678)
    HMS Restoration was a 70-gun third-rate ship of the line of the English Royal Navy, named after the English Restoration. She was built by Betts of Harwich and launched in 1678.She took part in the Battle of Barfleur on 19 May 1692...
    
     70 (1678) – wrecked in the Great Storm of 1703
    Great Storm of 1703
    The Great Storm of 1703 was the most severe storm or natural disaster ever recorded in the southern part of Great Britain. It affected southern England and the English Channel in the Kingdom of Great Britain...
    
    
  • Berwick
    HMS Berwick (1679)
    HMS Berwick was a 70-gun third rate ship of the line of the Royal Navy, built by Phineas Pett II at Chatham Dockyard and launched in 1679.She was rebuilt at Deptford in 1700, again as a 70-gun third rate, and was hulked in 1715....
    
     70 (1679)
  • Burford
    HMS Burford (1679)
    HMS Burford was a 70-gun third rate ship of the line of the Royal Navy, launched at Woolwich Dockyard in 1679.She was rebuilt at Deptford in 1699, remaining as a 70-gun third rate....
    
     70 (1679)
  • Eagle
    HMS Eagle (1679)
    HMS Eagle was a 70-gun third rate ship of the line of the Royal Navy, launched at Portsmouth Dockyard in 1679.She underwent a rebuild at Chatham Dockyard in 1699, retaining her armament of 70 guns....
    
     70 (1679)
  • Expedition
    HMS Expedition (1679)
    HMS Expedition was a 70-gun third-rate ship of the line of the Royal Navy, launched at Portsmouth Dockyard in 1679.Expedition was rebuilt as a 70-gun third rate in 1699 at Chatham Dockyard. She was rebuilt for a second time as a 70-gun third rate to the 1706 Establishment at Portsmouth Dockyard,...
    
     70 (1679) – renamed Prince Frederick 1715, sold 1784
  • Grafton
    HMS Grafton (1679)
    HMS Grafton was a 70-gun third rate ship of the line of the Royal Navy, launched at Woolwich Dockyard in 1679.Grafton underwent a rebuild at Rotherhithe in 1700, remaining as a 70-gun third rate. She was captured by the french during the Action of 2 May 1707....
    
     70 (1679)
  • Pendennis
    HMS Pendennis (1679)
    HMS Pendennis was a 70-gun third rate ship of the line of the English Royal Navy, built by Phineas Pett II at Chatham Dockyard and launched in 1679.Pendennis was wrecked in 1689....
    
     70 (1679) – wrecked 1689
  • Northumberland
    HMS Northumberland (1679)
    HMS Northumberland was a 70-gun third-rate ship of the line of the English Royal Navy, launched at Bristol in 1679.-Service:She fought in the War of the Grand Alliance....
    
     70 (1679) – wrecked in the Great Storm of 1703
    Great Storm of 1703
    The Great Storm of 1703 was the most severe storm or natural disaster ever recorded in the southern part of Great Britain. It affected southern England and the English Channel in the Kingdom of Great Britain...
    
    
  • Essex
    HMS Essex (1679)
    HMS Essex was a 70-gun third rate ship of the line of the Royal Navy, launched at Blackwall Yard in 1679.She was rebuilt at Rotherhithe in 1700, retaining her 70-gun armament. She underwent a second rebuild in 1713, and on 20 May 1736 she was ordered to be taken to pieces and rebuilt at Woolwich as...
    
     70 (1679) – broken up 1736 for rebuild
  • Kent
    HMS Kent (1679)
    HMS Kent was a 70-gun third rate ship of the line of the Royal Navy, launched at Blackwall Yard in 1679. She was the second ship of the name....
    
     70 (1679)
  • Exeter
    HMS Exeter (1680)
    HMS Exeter was a 70-gun third rate ship of the line of the English Royal Navy, built by contract of 20 February 1678 by Henry Johnson at Blackwall Yard and launched in March 1680....
    
     70 (1680) – hulked 1691
  • Suffolk
    HMS Suffolk (1680)
    HMS Suffolk was a 70-gun third rate ship of the line of the Royal Navy, built by contract of 20 February 1678 by Sir Henry Johnson at his Blackwall Yard and launched in May 1680...
    
     70 (1680) – broken up by 1765
  • Hope
    HMS Hope (1678)
    HMS Hope was a 70-gun third rate ship of the line of the English Royal Navy, launched at Deptford Dockyard in 1678.Hope was captured in 1695....
    
     70 (1678) – captured 1695
  • Elizabeth
    HMS Elizabeth (1679)
    HMS Elizabeth was a 70-gun third rate ship of the line of the English Royal Navy, launched at Deptford in 1679.Elizabeth was rebuilt as another 70-gun third rate at Portsmouth Dockyard in 1704, but was captured later that year....
    
     70 (1679) – rebuilt 1703
  • Stirling Castle 70 (1679) – wrecked in the Great Storm of 1703
    Great Storm of 1703
    The Great Storm of 1703 was the most severe storm or natural disaster ever recorded in the southern part of Great Britain. It affected southern England and the English Channel in the Kingdom of Great Britain...
    
    
  • Breda
    HMS Breda (1679)
    HMS Breda was a 70-gun third rate ship of the line of the English Royal Navy, launched at Harwich in 1679.Breda was destroyed by an accidental fire in 1690....
    
     70 (c. 1679) – burnt 1690

New fourth rates (1683-1688)

• Mordaunt
  HMS Mordaunt (1681)
  HMS Mordaunt was a 46-gun fourth rate ship of the line of the English Royal Navy, launched at Deptford in 1681. She had been privately built, and was purchased into the navy in 1683...
  
   46 (c. 1681) – built privately and purchased 1683. wrecked 1693
• Deptford
  HMS Deptford (1687)
  HMS Deptford was a 50-gun fourth-rate ship of the line of the Royal Navy, launched at Woolwich Dockyard in 1687.She underwent her first rebuild at Woolwich in 1700 as a fourth rate of between 46 and 54 guns...
  
   50 (1687) – broken up 1700 for rebuild
• St Albans
  HMS St Albans (1687)
  HMS St Albans was a 50-gun fourth rate ship of the line of the English Royal Navy, launched at Deptford Dockyard in 1687.St Albans was wrecked in 1693....
  
   50 (1687) – wrecked 1693
• Sedgemoor
  HMS Sedgemoor (1687)
  HMS Sedgemoor was a 50-gun fourth rate ship of the line of the English Royal Navy, launched at Chatham Dockyard in 1687.Sedgemoor was wrecked in 1689....
  
   50 (1687) – wrecked 1689

Major rebuilds (1677-1688)

• Royal Sovereign (first rate) 100 (1685) – burnt by accident 29 January 1696
• Mary (third rate) 60 (1688) – wrecked in Great Storm 27 November 1703
• Tiger (fourth rate) 44 (1681) – rebuilt 1701-03
• Bonaventure
  HMS Bonaventure (1650)
  President was a 38-gun fourth rate frigate of the Royal Navy, originally built for the navy of the Commonwealth of England by Peter Pett I at Deptford Dockyard, and launched in 1650....
  
   (fourth rate) 48 (1683) – rebuilt 1699
• Hampshire (fourth rate) 46 (1686) – sunk in action 26 August 1697.
• Assistance (fourth rate) 48 (1687) – rebuilt 1699
• Ruby
  HMS Ruby (1652)
  HMS Ruby was a 40-gun fourth rate frigate of the English Royal Navy, originally built for the navy of the Commonwealth of England by Peter Pett at Deptford, and was launched on 15 March 1652....
  
   (fourth rate) 48 (1687) – rebuilt 1704-06

Captures – ex-Algerines

The Royal Navy took into service as fourth rates the following ships captured from the Algerines (Algerian corsairs).

• Marigold 44 (ex-Algerine Marygold, captured 28 October 1677) – wrecked 1679.
• Tiger Prize 48 (ex-Algerine, captured 1 April 1678) – sunk as a breakwater 1696.
• Golden Horse 46 (ex-Algerine Golden Horse, captured 9 April 1681) – sunk as a breakwater 1688.
• Half Moon 44 (ex-Algerine Half Moon, captured 9 September 1681) – burnt by accident 1686.
• Two Lions 44 (ex-Algerine Two Lions, captured 16 September 1681) – sold 1688.

List of ships-of-the-line of the Royal Navy (1688-1697)

Number of main guns follows name (see rating system of the Royal Navy

Rating system of the Royal Navy

The rating system of the Royal Navy and its predecessors was used by the British 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...

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Except where stated otherwise, these ships are listed in the order of p163-165 The Ship of the Line Volume I, by Brian Lavery, pub Conways, 1983, ISBN 0-85177-252-8

The "Twenty-Seven Ships" programme of 1691

This programme was approved by Parliament on 10 October 1690. While nominally it comprised seventeen third rates of 80 guns and ten fourth rates of 60 guns, funds for three third rates of 70 guns were provided at virtually the same date as the Programme, which should thus strictly speaking refer to Thirty Ships.

• Two-decker third rates of 80 guns
  • Devonshire
    HMS Devonshire (1692)
    HMS Devonshire was an 80-gun third rate ship of the line of the Royal Navy, launched at Bursledon on 5 April 1692.She was rebuilt at Woolwich Dockyard in 1704, but was blown up in action in 1707 during the Battle at The Lizard....
    
     80 (1692) – blew up at the Battle at The Lizard, 1707
  • Cornwall
    HMS Cornwall (1692)
    HMS Cornwall was an 80-gun third rate ship of the line of the Royal Navy, launched at Southampton on 28 April 1692.She served in the War of the Grand Alliance, and in her first year took part in the Battle of Barfleur and the action at La Hougue....
    
     80 (1692)
  • Boyne
    HMS Boyne (1692)
    HMS Boyne was an 80-gun third rate ship of the line of the Royal Navy, launched at Deptford Dockyard on 21 May 1692.She was rebuilt to the 1706 Establishment at Blackwall Yard, mounting her guns on three instead of her original two gundecks, though she was still classified as a third rate. She was...
    
     80 (1692) – broken up by 1763
  • Russell
    HMS Russell (1692)
    HMS Russell was an 80-gun third rate ship of the line of the Royal Navy, launched at Portsmouth Dockyard on 3 June 1692.She was rebuilt according to the 1706 Establishment at Rotherhithe, and was relaunched on 16 March 1709...
    
     80 (1692)
  • Norfolk
    HMS Norfolk (1693)
    HMS Norfolk was an 80-gun third rate ship of the line of the Royal Navy. She was built at Southampton and launched on 28 March 1693, and was the first ship to bear the name. She was rebuilt at Plymouth according to the 1719 Establishment, and was re-launched on 21 September 1728...
    
     80 (1693)
  • Humber
    HMS Humber (1693)
    HMS Humber was an 80-gun third rate ship of the line of the Royal Navy, launched at Hull on 30 March 1693.She was rebuilt according to the 1706 Establishment at Deptford in 1708. Her guns, previously being mounted on two gundecks, where now mounted on three, though she remained classified as a...
    
     80 (1693)
  • Sussex
    HMS Sussex (1693)
    HMS Sussex was an 80-gun third-rate ship of the line of the English Royal Navy, lost in a severe storm on 1 March 1694 off Gibraltar. On board were possibly 10 tons of gold coins...
    
     80 (1693) – wrecked 1694
  • Torbay
    HMS Torbay (1693)
    HMS Torbay was an 80-gun third rate ship of the line of the Royal Navy, launched at Deptford Dockyard on 16 December 1693. In 1707, she served as flagship of Rear-Admiral of the Blue Sir John Norris and belonged to Admiral Sir Cloudesley Shovell's fleet...
    
     80 (1693)
  • Lancaster
    HMS Lancaster (1694)
    HMS Lancaster was an 80-gun third rate ship of the line of the Royal Navy, launched at Bursledon on 3 April 1694.She was rebuilt according to the 1719 Establishment at Portsmouth, from where she was relaunched on 1 September 1722...
    
     80 (1694)
  • Dorsetshire
    HMS Dorsetshire (1694)
    HMS Dorsetshire was an 80-gun third rate ship of the line of the Royal Navy, launched at Southampton on 8 December 1694.She was rebuilt according to the 1706 Establishment at Portsmouth Dockyard, and relaunched on 20 September 1712...
    
     80 (1694)
  • Cambridge
    HMS Cambridge (1695)
    HMS Cambridge was an 80-gun third rate ship of the line of the Royal Navy, launched at Deptford Dockyard on 21 December 1695.She was rebuilt according to the 1706 Establishment at Woolwich Dockyard, and relaunched on 17 September 1715...
    
     80 (1695)
  • Chichester
    HMS Chichester (1695)
    HMS Chichester was an 80-gun third rate ship of the line of the Royal Navy, launched at Chatham Dockyard on 6 March 1695.She underwent a rebuild in 1706 at Woolwich Dockyard. Chichester served until 1749, when she was broken up....
    
     80 (1695)
  • Newark
    HMS Newark (1695)
    HMS Newark was an 80-gun third rate ship of the line of the Royal Navy, launched at Hull on 3 June 1695.She was rebuilt according to the 1706 Establishment at Chatham Dockyard, and relaunched on 29 July 1717. During this rebuild an extra gundeck was added to make her a three-decker, instead of the...
    
     80 (1695)
• Three-decker third rates of 80 guns.

These four were originally intended to be two-deckers, like the other thirteen, but were completed as three-deckers.

• • Shrewsbury
    HMS Shrewsbury (1695)
    HMS Shrewsbury was a three-decker 80-gun third rate ship of the line of the Royal Navy, launched at Portsmouth Dockyard on 6 February 1695.Shrewsbury narrowly escaped destruction on the Goodwin Sands during the Great Storm on 26 November 1703...
    
     80 (1695)
  • Cumberland
    HMS Cumberland (1695)
    HMS Cumberland was a three-decker 80-gun third rate ship of the line of the Royal Navy, launched at Bursledon on 12 November 1695.Cumberland was captured by the French in the Battle at the Lizard in 1707. She served in the French navy under her old name, and in 1715 was sold to Genoa. The Genoese...
    
     80 (1695) – captured by France at the Battle at The Lizard, 1707, to Genoa 1715, to Spain 1717 as Principe de Asturias 70, captured by Britain at the Battle of Cape Passaro
    Battle of Cape Passaro
    The Battle of Cape Passaro was the defeat of a Spanish fleet under Admirals Antonio de Gaztañeta and Fernando Chacón by a British fleet under Admiral George Byng, near Cape Passero, Sicily, on 11 August 1718, four months before the War of the Quadruple Alliance was formally...
    
    , 1718, to Austria 1720 as San Carlos, broken up 1733
  • Ranelagh
    HMS Ranelagh (1697)
    HMS Ranelagh was a three-decker 80-gun third rate ship of the line of the Royal Navy, launched at Deptford Dockyard on 25 June 1697. She took part in a number of actions during the War of the Spanish Succession, including the Battle of Vigo in 1702 and the Battle of Vélez-Málaga in 1704.On 20...
    
     80 (1697) – renamed Princess Caroline 1728
  • Somerset
    HMS Somerset (1698)
    HMS Somerset was a three-decker 80-gun third rate ship of the line of the Royal Navy, launched at Chatham Dockyard on 31 May 1698. She was the first ship to bear the name....
    
     80 (1698) – broken up 1740
• Third rates of 70 guns
  • Bredah
    HMS Breda (1692)
    HMS Breda was a 70-gun third-rate ship of the line of the Royal Navy, launched at Woolwich Dockyard on 23 April 1692. She was named after the Declaration of Breda made in 1660 by Charles II of England....
    
     70 (1692) – broken up 1730
  • Ipswich
    HMS Ipswich (1694)
    HMS Ipswich was a 70-gun third rate ship of the line of the Royal Navy, launched at Harwich on 19 April 1694.She was rebuilt at Portsmouth according to the 1719 Establishment, relaunching on 30 October 1730....
    
     70 (1693) – broken up 1727 to rebuild
  • Yarmouth
    HMS Yarmouth (1695)
    HMS Yarmouth was a 70-gun third rate ship of the line of the English Royal Navy, built for the navy by a private contractor at Harwich under the 1690 Programme, and launched in 1695....
    
     70 (1695) – broken up 1707 and rebuilt 1707-09; hulked 1740, sold or broken up 1769
• Fourth rates of 60 guns
  • Medway
    HMS Medway (1693)
    HMS Medway was a 60-gun fourth rate ship of the line of the Royal Navy, launched at Sheerness Dockyard on 20 September 1693.Medway, together with Chatam and Triton, captured Auguste on 19 August 1705....
    
     60 (1693)
  • Carlisle
    HMS Carlisle (1693)
    HMS Carlisle was a 60-gun fourth rate ship of the line of the English Royal Navy, launched at Deptford on 11 February 1693.Carlisle was wrecked in 1696....
    
     60 (1693) – wrecked 1696
  • Winchester
    HMS Winchester (1693)
    HMS Winchester was a 60-gun fourth rate ship of the line of the English Royal Navy, launched at Bursledon on 11 April 1693.In 1695, Winchester foundered on Carysfort Reef in the Florida Keys and was lost. The remains of the wreck—now consisting of nothing more than cannon balls—were discovered in...
    
     60 (1693) – sank 1695
  • Canterbury
    HMS Canterbury (1693)
    HMS Canterbury was a 60-gun fourth rate ship of the line of the Royal Navy, launched at Deptford on 18 December 1693.She was rebuilt at Portsmouth according to the 1719 Establishment, and was relaunched on 15 September 1722...
    
     60 (1693)
  • Sunderland
    HMS Sunderland (1694)
    HMS Sunderland was a 60-gun fourth rate ship of the line of the Royal Navy, launched at Southampton on 17 March 1694.Sunderland was hulked in 1715, and sunk as part of the foundation of a breakwater in 1737....
    
     60 (1694) – scuttled 1737
  • Pembroke
    HMS Pembroke (1694)
    HMS Pembroke was a 60-gun fourth-rate ship of the line of the Royal Navy, launched at Deptford on 22 November 1694.Pembroke was captured in 1709, recaptured in 1711, and finally sold to Spain in Genoa in 1713 and renamed Lanfranco. She saw action in the siege of Barcelona under D...
    
     60 (1694) – captured 1709
  • Gloucester
    HMS Gloucester (1695)
    HMS Gloucester was a 60-gun fourth rate ship of the line of the Royal Navy, launched at Bristol on 5 February 1695.She was placed on harbour service in 1706, and was broken up in 1731....
    
     60 (1695) – broken up 1731
  • Windsor
    HMS Windsor (1695)
    HMS Windsor was a 60-gun fourth rate ship of the line of the Royal Navy, launched at Deptford on 31 October 1695.On 18 November 1725 she was ordered to be taken to pieces and rebuilt according to the 1719 Establishment at Deptford, and she was relaunched on 27 October 1729...
    
     60 (1695)
  • Kingston
    HMS Kingston (1697)
    HMS Kingston was a 60-gun fourth rate ship of the line of the Royal Navy, built by Frame in Hull and launched on 13 March 1697. She had an eventful career, taking part in numerous engagements.-Career:...
    
     60 (1697)
  • Exeter
    HMS Exeter (1697)
    HMS Exeter was a 60-gun fourth rate ship of the line of the Royal Navy, launched at Portsmouth Dockyard on 26 May 1697.She was involved in repeated actions against the French, in 1702 off Newfoundland, and in 1705 when she captured the frigate Thétis. She was in the Mediterranean in 1711, and at...
    
     60 (1697)

Other third rates

• 70-gun ships, ordered 1695
  • Bedford
    HMS Bedford (1698)
    HMS Bedford was a 70-gun third rate ship of the line of the Royal Navy, launched at Woolwich Dockyard on 12 September 1698. She carried twenty-two 24-pounder guns and four culverins on the lower deck; twenty-six 12-pounder guns on the upper deck; fourteen sakers on the quarter-deck and...
    
     70 (1698) – rebuilt 1741
  • Orford
    HMS Orford (1698)
    HMS Orford was a 70-gun third rate ship of the line of the Royal Navy, launched at Deptford in 1698.. She carried twenty-two 24-pounder guns and four culverins on the lower deck; twenty-six 12-pounder guns on the upper deck; fourteen sakers on the quarter-deck and forecastle; and four 3-pounder...
    
     70 (1698) – rebuilt 1712
  • Nassau
    HMS Nassau (1699)
    HMS Nassau was a 70-gun third rate ship of the line of the English Royal Navy, launched at Portsmouth Dockyard in 1699.Nassau was wrecked in 1706....
    
     70 (1699) – wrecked 1706
  • Revenge
    HMS Revenge (1699)
    HMS Revenge was a 70-gun third rate ship of the line of the Royal Navy, launched at Deptford Dockyard in 1699.She was renamed HMS Buckingham in 1711, and hulked in 1727. Buckingham continued to serve in this role until 1745, when she was sunk to form part of the foundation of a breakwater....
    
     70 (1699) – renamed Buckingham 1711, hulk 1727, scuttled as a foundation 1745
• 64-gun ship
  • Dreadnought
    HMS Dreadnought
    Several ships and one submarine of the Royal Navy have borne the name HMS Dreadnought in the expectation that they would "dread nought", i.e. "fear nothing, but God"...
    
     64 (1691) – reduced to fourth rate 1697, rebuilt 1706

Second rates of 90 guns, ordered 1695

• Association
  HMS Association
  HMS Association was a 90-gun second-rate ship of the line of the Royal Navy, launched at Portsmouth Dockyard in 1697. She served with distinction at the capture of Gibraltar, and was lost in 1707 by grounding on the Isles of Scilly in the greatest maritime disaster of the age.-Service:Association...
  
   90 (1697) – wrecked 1707
• Barfleur
  HMS Barfleur (1697)
  HMS Barfleur was a 90-gun second rate ship of the line of the Royal Navy, launched at Deptford Dockyard on 10 August 1697.She was rebuilt according to the 1706 Establishment at Deptford, relaunching on 27 June 1716. Barfleur was hulked in 1764, and eventually broken up in 1783....
  
   90 (1697) – rebuilt 1716 at 80-gun ship
• Namur
  HMS Namur (1697)
  HMS Namur was a 90-gun second rate ship of the line of the Royal Navy, launched at Woolwich Dockyard in 1697.On 11 June 1723 she was ordered to be taken to pieces and rebuilt at Deptford, according to the 1719 Establishment. She was relaunched on 13 September 1729. In 1745, she was razeed to 74...
  
   90 (1697) – rebuilt 1729
• Triumph
  HMS Triumph
  Ten ships of the Royal Navy have been named HMS Triumph. Another was planned, but renamed before being launched: was a 68-gun galleon built in 1561. She was rebuilt in 1596, and sold in 1618. was a 44-gun ship launched in 1623 and broken up in 1687. was a 90-gun second rate ship of the line...
  
   90 (1698) – renamed Prince 1714, rebuilt 1750

Fourth rates of 50 guns

The split between 123 ft groups and 130 ft groups is not in Lavery, but in the previous version of this list on Wikipedia. However the split is supported by data in The 50-Gun Ship and in British Warships in the Age of Sail 1603-1714.

• Ordered 1690-92 (123 ft group)
  • Chatham
    HMS Chatham (1691)
    HMS Chatham was a 50-gun fourth rate ship of the line of the Royal Navy, launched on 20 October 1691 at Chatham Dockyard.In 1705 she captured the French 60-gun Third Rate Auguste built in Brest in 1704. The British took her into service as Auguste.She underwent a rebuild according to the 1719...
    
     (1691) – broken up 1718 for rebuild
  • Centurion
    HMS Centurion (1691)
    HMS Centurion was a 50-gun fourth rate ship of the line of the Royal Navy, launched in 1691 at Deptford Dockyard.She served until 1728, when she was broken up....
    
     (1691) – broken up 1728 for rebuild
  • Chester
    HMS Chester (1691)
    HMS Chester was a 50-gun fourth rate ship of the line of the Royal Navy, launched 21 March 1691 at Woolwich Dockyard.She was captured by the French at the Battle at The Lizard, 21-10-1707....
    
     (1691) – captured by France at the Battle at The Lizard, 1707
  • Norwich
    HMS Norwich (1691)
    HMS Norwich was a 50-gun fourth rate ship of the line of the English Royal Navy, launched at Portsmouth Dockyard in 1691.Norwich was wrecked in 1692....
    
     (1691) – wrecked 1692
  • Weymouth
    HMS Weymouth (1693)
    HMS Weymouth was a 50-gun fourth rate ship of the line of the Royal Navy, launched at Portsmouth Dockyard in 1693.She was rebuilt at Woolwich Dockyard according to the 1706 Establishment, relaunching on 26 February 1719. Weymouth continued to serve until 1732, when she was broken up....
    
     (1693) – broken up 1717 for rebuild
  • Falmouth
    HMS Falmouth (1693)
    HMS Falmouth was a 50-gun fourth rate ship of the line of the English Royal Navy, launched at Deptford on 25 June 1693.The ship took part in the Action of August 1702 and on the 4th and 5th days of the action supported Admiral John Benbow attacks when other members of the squadron failed to do...
    
     (1693) – captured by France 1704
  • Rochester
    HMS Rochester (1693)
    HMS Rochester was a 50-gun fourth rate ship of the line of the Royal Navy, launched at Chatham Dockyard in 1693.She was rebuilt to the 1706 Establishment at Deptford Dockyard, and was relaunched on 19 March 1716. In 1744 she was renamed HMS Maidstone, and converted for use as a hospital ship....
    
     (1693) – broken up 1714 for rebuild
  • Portland
    HMS Portland (1693)
    HMS Portland was a 50-gun fourth rate ship of the line of the Royal Navy, launched at Woolwich Dockyard on 28 March 1693.She was rebuilt according to the 1719 Establishment at Portsmouth, and was relaunched on 25 February 1723....
    
     (1693) – broken up 1719 for rebuild
  • Southampton
    HMS Southampton (1693)
    HMS Southampton was a 50-gun fourth rate ship of the line of the Royal Navy, launched at Southampton on 10 June 1693.She underwent a rebuild at Deptford in 1700 as a fourth rate of between 46 and 54 guns. Southampton was hulked in 1728, and continued in this role until 1771, when she was broken up....
    
     (1693) – broken up 1699 for rebuild
  • Norwich
    HMS Norwich (1693)
    HMS Norwich was a 50-gun fourth rate ship of the line of the Royal Navy, launched at Deptford in 1693.She was rebuilt according to the 1706 Establishment at Chatham Dockyard, relaunching on 20 May 1718. In 1744 she was reduced to a fifth rate and renamed HMS Enterprise...
    
     (1693) – broken up 1712 for rebuild
  • Dartmouth
    HMS Dartmouth (1693)
    HMS Dartmouth was a 50-gun fourth rate ship of the line of the English Royal Navy, launched at Rotherhithe on 24 July 1693.She was captured by the French in 1695. Upon her re-capture in 1702 she was renamed HMS Vigo, as a new ship of the navy had already been commissioned as . Her service as HMS...
    
     (1693) – captured by France 1695, recaptured 1702, renamed Vigo, wrecked 1703
  • Anglesea
    HMS Anglesea (1694)
    HMS Anglesea was a 50-gun fourth rate ship of the line of the Royal Navy, launched at Plymouth Dockyard in 1694.Anglesea was reduced to a fifth rate in 1719, and underwent a rebuild in 1725....
    
     (1694) – broken up 1719
• Ordered 1693 (130 ft group)
  • Colchester
    HMS Colchester (1694)
    HMS Colchester was a 50-gun fourth rate ship of the line of the English Royal Navy, launched at Blackwall Yard in 1694.Colchester foundered in 1704....
    
     (1694) – wrecked 1704
  • Romney
    HMS Romney (1694)
    HMS Romney was a 50-gun fourth rate ship of the line of the Royal Navy, launched at Blackwall Yard in 1694.Commanded by Captain William Coney, Romney was wrecked on the Scilly Isles on 26 October 1707 when a disastrous navigational error sent Admiral Sir Cloudesley Shovell's fleet through dangerous...
    
     (1695) – wrecked 1707
  • Lichfield
    HMS Lichfield (1695)
    HMS Lichfield was a 50-gun fourth-rate ship of the line of the Royal Navy, built at Portsmouth Dockyard and launched on 4 February 1695....
    
     (1695) – broken up 1720 for rebuild
  • Lincoln
    HMS Lincoln (1695)
    HMS Lincoln was a 50-gun fourth rate ship of the line of the English Royal Navy, launched at Woolwich Dockyard on 12 September 1695.Lincoln was lost in 1703 when she foundered....
    
     (1695) – sank 1703
  • Coventry
    HMS Coventry (1695)
    HMS Coventry was a 50-gun fourth rate ship of the line of the English Royal Navy, launched at Deptford Dockyard in 1695.The French 54-gun Auguste, together with the 54-gun Jason, captured Coventry in September 1704....
    
     (1695) – captured by France 1704, recaptured 1709
  • Severn
    HMS Severn (1695)
    HMS Severn was a 50-gun fourth rate ship of the line of the Royal Navy, launched at Blackwall Yard in 1695.On 13 May 1734, orders were issued for Severn to be taken to pieces and rebuilt at Plymouth according to the 1733 proposals of the 1719 Establishment. Severn was relaunched on 28 March 1739,...
    
     (1695) – broken up 1734 for rebuild
  • Burlington
    HMS Burlington (1695)
    HMS Burlington was a 50-gun fourth rate ship of the line of the Royal Navy, built by Henry Johnson's yard at Blackwall Yard, and launched in 1695.The Burlington was broken up in August 1733....
    
     (1695) – broken up 1733
• Ordered 1694 (130 ft group)
  • Harwich
    HMS Harwich (1695)
    HMS Harwich was a 50-gun fourth rate ship of the line of the English Royal Navy, launched at Deptford in 1695.The Harwich was wrecked in November 1699 while careening in China....
    
     (1695) – wrecked 1700
  • Pendennis
    HMS Pendennis (1695)
    HMS Pendennis was a 50-gun fourth rate ship of the line of the English Royal Navy, built by Robert and John Castle at Deptford, and launched in 1695.The Pendennis was captured by two French 50-gun ships off the Dogger Bank in October 1705....
    
     (1695) – captured by France 1705
• Ordered 1695 (130 ft group)
  • Blackwall
    HMS Blackwall (1696)
    Blackwall was a 50-gun fourth-rate ship of the line of the English Royal Navy, launched at Blackwall Yard in 1696.In September 1705, whilst under the command of Captain Samuel Martin Blackwall, along with two smaller vessels, had been ordered to convoy some merchantmen to the Baltic...
    
     (1696) – captured by France 1705
  • Guernsey
    HMS Guernsey (1696)
    HMS Guernsey was a 50-gun fourth rate ship of the line of the Royal Navy, launched at Blackwall Yard in 1696.She was rebuilt according to the 1706 Establishment at Woolwich Dockyard, and was relaunched on 24 October 1717. On 23 February 1737 orders were issued for Guernsey to be taken to pieces and...
    
     (1696) – broken up 1716 for rebuild
  • Nonsuch
    HMS Nonsuch (1696)
    HMS Nonsuch was a 50-gun fourth rate ship of the line of the Royal Navy, launched at Deptford in 1696.Nonsuch was converted into a hulk in 1740, and she continued to serve in this capacity until 1745, when she was broken up....
    
     (1696) – broken up 1716 for rebuild
  • Warwick
    HMS Warwick (1696)
    HMS Warwick was a 50-gun fourth rate ship of the line of the Royal Navy, built at Deptford and launched in 1696.She was rebuilt according to the 1706 Establishment at Rotherhithe, and relaunched on 9 January 1711. Warwick was broken up in 1726....
    
     (1696) – broken up 1709 for rebuild
  • Hampshire
    HMS Hampshire (1698)
    HMS Hampshire was a 50-gun fourth rate ship of the line of the Royal Navy, launched on 3 March 1698 at Nelson Dock, Rotherhithe.Hampshire was broken up in 1739....
    
     50 (1698) – broken up 1739
  • Winchester
    HMS Winchester (1698)
    HMS Winchester was a 50-gun fourth rate ship of the line of the Royal Navy, built by Richard Wells at Greenland North Dockyard, Rotherhithe and launched on 17 March 1698....
    
     50 (1698) – broken up 1716 for rebuild
  • Salisbury
    HMS Salisbury (1698)
    HMS Salisbury was a 50-gun fourth rate ship of the line of the Royal Navy, built by Richard and James Herring at Baileys Hard on the Beaulieu River in Hampshire, England and launched on 18 April 1698....
    
     50 (1698) – captured by France 1703, recaptured 1708, renamed Salisbury Prize, renamed Preston 1716, broken up 1739 for rebuild
  • Worcester
    HMS Worcester (1698)
    HMS Worcester was a 50-gun fourth rate ship of the line of the Royal Navy, launched at Southampton on 31 May 1698.She underwent a rebuild according to the 1706 Establishment at Deptford Dockyard, relaunching on 31 August 1714. Worcester was broken up in 1733....
    
     50 (1698) – broken up 1713 for rebuild
  • Dartmouth
    HMS Dartmouth (1698)
    HMS Dartmouth was a 50-gun fourth rate ship of the line of the Royal Navy, launched on 3 March 1698 at Southampton.She was rebuilt according to the 1706 Establishment at Woolwich Dockyard, relaunching on 7 August 1716. On 8 October 1736, Dartmouth was ordered to be taken to pieces at Woolwich and...
    
     42 (1698) – broken up 1714 for rebuild
  • Jersey
    HMS Jersey (1698)
    HMS Jersey was a 50-gun fourth rate ship of the line of the Royal Navy, built at East Cowes on the Isle of Wight, and launched on 24 November 1698.She was converted to serve as a hulk in 1731, and was sunk in 1763....
    
     50 (1698) – hulked 1731, sunk 1763
  • Carlisle
    HMS Carlisle (1698)
    HMS Carlisle was a 50-gun fourth rate ship of the line of the English Royal Navy, launched at Plymouth Dockyard in 1698.It was accidentally blown up in 1700....
    
     50 (1698) – blew up 1700
  • Tilbury
    HMS Tilbury (1699)
    HMS Tilbury was a 50-gun fourth rate ship of the line of the Royal Navy, launched at Chatham Dockyard in 1699.Tilbury served until 1726, when she was broken up....
    
     50 (1699) – broken up 1726 for rebuild
• Other 50-Gun Ships (purchased)
  • Falkland
    HMS Falkland (1696)
    HMS Falkland was a 50-gun fourth-rate ship of the line of the Royal Navy, built by Holland of New Castle, New Hampshire, and purchased by the navy in 1696....
    
     (c. 1690) – built by Holland at Newcastle, New England and purchased 1696, rebuilt 1702

Major rebuilds

• First rates
  • Royal William
    HMS Prince (1670)
    HMS Prince was a 100-gun first rate ship of the line of the Royal Navy, built by Phineas Pett II at Deptford Dockyard and launched in 1670. A contemporary shipyard model and a drawing by Willem van de Velde the Elder give a good impression how she looked...
    
     100 (1692) – ex-Prince, rebuilt 1719.
  • Queen
    HMS Royal Charles (1673)
    HMS Royal Charles was a 100-gun first-rate ship of the line of the Royal Navy, designed and built by Sir Anthony Deane at Portsmouth Dockyard, where she was launched and completed by his successor as Master Shipwright, Daniel Furzer, in March 1673...
    
     100 (1693) – ex-Royal Charles, rebuilt 1715, renamed Royal George
  • Victory
    HMS Royal James (1675)
    HMS Royal James was a 100-gun first-rate ship of the line of the Royal Navy, designed by Sir Anthony Deane and built by his successor as Master Shipwright at Portsmouth Dockyard, Daniel Furzer, and launched in 1675. She was renamed HMS Victory on 7 March 1691 as the old second rate Victory of 1666...
    
     100 (1695) – ex-Royal James, burnt 1721 and broken up
• Third rates
  • Royal Oak
    HMS Royal Oak (1674)
    HMS Royal Oak was a 74-gun third rate ship of the line of the Royal Navy, built by Jonas Shish at Deptford and launched in 1674. She was one of only three Royal Navy ships to be equipped with the Rupertinoe naval gun...
    
     74 (1690) – rebuilt 1713
  • Defiance
    HMS Defiance (1675)
    HMS Defiance was a 64-gun third rate ship of the line of the Royal Navy, built by Phineas Pett II at Chatham Dockyard, and launched in 1675.In the summer of 1678, Defiance was under the command of John Ernle....
    
     64 (1695) – rebuilt 1707
  • Swiftsure
    HMS Swiftsure (1673)
    HMS Swiftsure was a 70-gun third-rate ship of the line of the Royal Navy, built by Sir Anthony Deane at Harwich, and launched in 1673. By 1685 she had been reduced to a 66-gun ship.In 1692 she saw action at the Battles of Barfleur and La Hogue....
    
     66 (1696) – rebuilt 1716 and renamed Revenge
• Fourth rates
  • Crown
    HMS Crown (1654)
    The Taunton was a 40-gun fourth-rate frigate of the Royal Navy, originally built for the navy of the Commonwealth of England at Rotherhithe, and launched in 1654....
    
     46 (1689) – rebuilt 1703-04.
  • Dragon
    HMS Dragon (1647)
    HMS Dragon was a 38-gun fourth rate frigate of the Royal Navy, built at Chatham and launched in 1647. The term 'frigate' during the period of this ship referred to a method of construction, rather than a role which did not develop until the following century.Her first commission was in the Irish...
    
     46 (1690) – rebuilt 1706-07.
  • Newcastle
    HMS Newcastle (1653)
    Newcastle was a 44-gun fourth-rate frigate of the English Royal Navy, originally built for the navy of the Commonwealth of England by Phineas Pett II at Ratcliffe, and launched in May 1653. By 1677 her armament had been increased to 54 guns....
    
     52 (1692) – foundered during Great Storm 27 November 1703.
  • Bristol
    HMS Bristol (1653)
    HMS Bristol was a 44-gun fourth-rate frigate of the English Royal Navy, originally built for the navy of the Commonwealth of England at Portsmouth, and launched in 1653. She was the first ship of the Royal Navy to bear this name. By 1677 her armament had been increased to 48 guns...
    
     50 (1693) – captured 1709
  • Dover
    HMS Dover (1654)
    HMS Dover was a 40-gun fourth-rate frigate of the Royal Navy, originally built for the navy of the Commonwealth of England at Shoreham, and launched in 1654...
    
     50 (1695) – rebuilt 1716

Captured ships, War of 1689-1697

• Content 70 (1686) – ex-French captured 29 January 1695, hulk 1703, sold 1715.
• Ruby Prize 48 (1695) – ex-French captured 1695, sold 1698.
• Trident 58 (1695) – ex-French, captured 29 January 1695, scuttled as breakwater 1701.
• Medway Prize 50 (1697) – ex-French privateer, captured 30 April 1697 and then purchased for the Navy 20 August 1697, hulk 1699, scuttled as a foundation 1712.

List of ships-of-the-line of the Royal Navy (1697-1719)

Number of main guns follows name (see rating system of the Royal Navy

Rating system of the Royal Navy

The rating system of the Royal Navy and its predecessors was used by the British 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...

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Except where stated otherwise, these ships are listed in the order of p165-169 The Ship of the Line Volume I, by Brian Lavery, pub Conways, 1983, ISBN 0-85177-252-8

First rates of 100 guns, rebuilt 1697-1719

• Royal Sovereign
  HMS Royal Sovereign (1701)
  HMS Royal Sovereign was a 100-gun first rate ship of the line of the Royal Navy, built at Woolwich Dockyard and launched in July 1701. She had been built using some of the salvageable timbers from the previous , which had been destroyed by fire in 1697....
  
   100 (1701) – broken up 1768
• Royal Anne 100 (1703) – ex-St Andrew, broken up 1757
• London
  HMS London (1670)
  HMS London was a 96-gun first-rate ship of the line of the Royal Navy, built by Christopher Pett at Deptford Dockyard until his death in March 1668, and completed by Jonas Shish and launched in 1670....
  
   100 (1706) – enlarged 1721 to 1,711 tons, broken up 1747
• Royal George 100 (1715) – ex-Queen, renamed Royal Anne 1756, broken up 1767
• Britannia 100 (1719) – harbour service 1745, broken up 1749
• Royal William 100 (1719) – reduced to 84 guns, broken up 1813

New ships, pre-Establishment, 1697-1706

• Third rates of 70 guns
  • Northumberland
    HMS Northumberland (1705)
    HMS Northumberland was a 70-gun third-rate ship of the line of the Royal Navy, built at Deptford Dockyard and launched in 1705.She was rebuilt twice during her career, firstly at Woolwich Dockyard, where she was reconstructed according to the 1719 Establishment and relaunched on 13 July 1721...
    
     70 (1705) – rebuilt 1721
  • Stirling Castle
    HMS Stirling Castle (1705)
    HMS Stirling Castle was a 70-gun third rate ship of the line of the Royal Navy, built at Chatham Dockyard and launched on 21 September 1705....
    
     70 (1705) – rebuilt 1723
  • Resolution
    HMS Resolution (1705)
    HMS Resolution was a 70-gun third rate ship of the line of the Royal Navy, built at Woolwich Dockyard and launched on 15 March 1705.Resolution was lost when she ran ashore in 1707....
    
     70 (1705) – ran aground 1707
  • Nassau 70 (1707) – rebuilt 1740
  • Elizabeth
    HMS Elizabeth (1706)
    HMS Elizabeth was a 70-gun third rate ship of the line of the Royal Navy, built at Woolwich Dockyard and launched on 1 August 1706.On 4 September 1733 orders were issued directing Elizabeth to be taken to pieces and rebuilt according to the 1733 proposals of the 1719 Establishment at Chatham, from...
    
     70 (1706) – rebuilt 1737
  • Restoration
    HMS Restoration (1706)
    HMS Restoration was a 70-gun third rate ship of the line of the Royal Navy, built at Deptford Dockyard and launched on 1 August 1706, after the previous had been lost in the Great Storm of 1703....
    
     70 (1706) – wrecked 1711
• Fourth rates of 60 guns
  • Nottingham
    HMS Nottingham (1703)
    HMS Nottingham was a 60-gun fourth rate ship of the line of the Royal Navy, built at Deptford Dockyard and launched on 10 June 1703. She was the first ship to bear the name....
    
     60 (1703) – rebuilt 1719
  • Mary
    HMS Mary (1704)
    HMS Mary was a 60-gun fourth rate ship of the line of the Royal Navy, built at Chatham Dockyard and launched on 12 May 1704.Orders were issued on 15 December 1736 for Mary to be taken to pieces and rebuilt according to the 1733 proposals of the 1719 Establishment at Portsmouth, from where she was...
    
     60 (1704) – rebuilt 1742 and renamed Princess Mary
  • York
    HMS York (1706)
    HMS York was a 60-gun fourth rate ship of the line of the Royal Navy, built at Plymouth Dockyard and launched on 18 April 1706.York was lengthened in 1738, and remained in service until 1750, when she was sunk to form part of a breakwater....
    
     60 (1706) – lengthened 1738, sunk as a breakwater 1750
• Fourth rates of 50 guns, 130 ft group
  • Swallow
    HMS Swallow (1703)
    HMS Swallow was a 50-gun fourth rate ship of the line of the Royal Navy, built at Deptford Dockyard and launched on 10 February 1703. Swallow was rebuilt according to the 1706 Establishment at Chatham Dockyard, and was relaunched on 25 March 1719...
    
     50 (1703) – rebuilt 1719
  • Antelope 50 (1703) – rebuilt 1741
  • Leopard
    HMS Leopard (1703)
    HMS Leopard was a 50-gun fourth rate ship of the line of the Royal Navy, built at Rotherhithe and launched on 15 March 1703.Leopard underwent a rebuild according to the 1719 Establishment at Woolwich, and was relaunched on 18 April 1721. Leopard served until 1739, when she was broken up....
    
     50 (1703) – rebuilt 1721
  • Panther
    HMS Panther (1703)
    HMS Panther was a 50-gun fourth rate ship of the line of the Royal Navy, built at Deptford Dockyard and launched on 15 March 1703.In 1707, she belonged to Admiral Sir Cloudesley Shovell's fleet...
    
     50 (1703) – rebuilt 1716
  • Newcastle
    HMS Newcastle (1704)
    HMS Newcastle was a 50-gun fourth rate ship of the line of the Royal Navy, built at Sheerness Dockyard and launched on 10 March 1704.Orders were issued on 31 May 1728 for Newcastle to be taken to pieces and rebuilt at Woolwich according to the 1719 Establishment of dimensions. She was relaunched on...
    
     50 (1704) – rebuilt 1732
  • Reserve
    HMS Reserve (1704)
    HMS Reserve was a 50-gun fourth rate ship of the line of the Royal Navy, built at Deptford Dockyard and launched on 18 March 1704.Reserve was renamed HMS Sutherland in 1716, and converted to serve as a hospital ship in 1741. Sutherland was broken up in 1754....
    
     50 (1704) – renamed Sutherland 1716, hospital ship 1741, broken up 1754
  • Saint Albans
    HMS St Albans (1706)
    HMS St Albans was a 50-gun fourth rate ship of the line of the Royal Navy, built at Rotherhithe and launched on 10 December 1706.St Albans underwent her first rebuild at Plymouth Dockyard, where she was reconstructed to the dimensions laid out in the 1706 Establishment, and relaunched on 6 March 1718...
    
     50 (1706) – rebuilt 1737
  • Colchester
    HMS Colchester (1707)
    HMS Colchester was a 50-gun fourth rate ship of the line of the Royal Navy, built at Deptford Dockyard and launched on 13 February 1707....
    
     50 (1707) – rebuilt 1721

Rebuilds, pre-Establishment, 1697-1706

• Second rates of 90 guns
  • Prince George 90 (1701) – ex-Duke, rebuilt 1723
  • St George 90 (1701) – ex-Charles, rebuilt 1740
  • Royal Katherine 90 (1702) – renamed Ramillies 1706, rebuilt 1749
  • Union
    HMS Albemarle (1680)
    HMS Albemarle was a 90-gun second rate ship of the line of the Royal Navy, launched in 1680 at Harwich.She was rebuilt in 1704 at Chatham Dockyard, remaining a 90-gun second rater. She was also renamed HMS Union at this time...
    
     90 (1704) – ex-Albemarle, rebuilt 1726
• Third rates of 80 guns
  • Devonshire 80 (1704) – blown up in action 1707
  • Chichester 80 (1706) – broken up 1749
  • Cornwall 80 (1706) – rebuilt 1726
• Third rates of 70 guns
  • Resolution 70 (1698) – foundered 1703
  • Burford
    HMS Burford (1679)
    HMS Burford was a 70-gun third rate ship of the line of the Royal Navy, launched at Woolwich Dockyard in 1679.She was rebuilt at Deptford in 1699, remaining as a 70-gun third rate....
    
     70 (1699) – wrecked 1719
  • Eagle
    HMS Eagle (1679)
    HMS Eagle was a 70-gun third rate ship of the line of the Royal Navy, launched at Portsmouth Dockyard in 1679.She underwent a rebuild at Chatham Dockyard in 1699, retaining her armament of 70 guns....
    
     70 (1699) – wrecked 1707
  • Expedition 70 (1699) – rebuilt 1714 and renamed Prince Frederick
  • Kent
    HMS Kent (1679)
    HMS Kent was a 70-gun third rate ship of the line of the Royal Navy, launched at Blackwall Yard in 1679. She was the second ship of the name....
    
     70 (1699) – rebuilt 1724
  • Stirling Castle 70 (1699) – wrecked 1703
  • Suffolk 70 (1699) – rebuilt 1719
  • Berwick
    HMS Berwick (1679)
    HMS Berwick was a 70-gun third rate ship of the line of the Royal Navy, built by Phineas Pett II at Chatham Dockyard and launched in 1679.She was rebuilt at Deptford in 1700, again as a 70-gun third rate, and was hulked in 1715....
    
     70 (1700) – hulked 1715, broken up 1723
  • Edgar 70 (1700) – rebuilt 1709
  • Essex 70 (1700) – rebuilt 1713
  • Grafton
    HMS Grafton (1679)
    HMS Grafton was a 70-gun third rate ship of the line of the Royal Navy, launched at Woolwich Dockyard in 1679.Grafton underwent a rebuild at Rotherhithe in 1700, remaining as a 70-gun third rate. She was captured by the french during the Action of 2 May 1707....
    
     70 (1700) – captured 1707
  • Hampton Court 70 (1701) – captured 1707
  • Lenox
    HMS Lenox (1678)
    HMS Lenox was a 70-gun third rate ship of the line of the Royal Navy, launched at Deptford Dockyard on 18 April 1678.She was rebuilt at Deptford in 1701, remaining as a 70-gun third rate. In 1707, she had belonged to Admiral Sir Cloudesley Shovell's fleet...
    
     70 (1701) – rebuilt 1723
  • Northumberland 70 (1702) – wrecked 1703
  • Restoration 70 (1702) – wrecked 1703
  • Elizabeth 70 (1704) – captured 1704
• Third rates of 66 guns
  • Monmouth
    HMS Monmouth (1667)
    HMS Monmouth was a 66-gun third-rate ship of the line of the Royal Navy, and was the second ship to be named for the town of Monmouth in Wales. She served from 1667 to 1767, winning ten battle honours over a century of active service...
    
     66 (1700) – rebuilt 1718
  • Warspite
    HMS Warspite (1666)
    HMS Warspite was a 70-gun third-rate ship of the line of the Royal Navy, launched in 1666 at Blackwall Yard. This second Warspite was one of the five ships designed to carry more provisions and lower deck guns higher above the water than French and Dutch equivalents...
    
     66 (1702) – renamed Edinburgh, rebuilt 1721
  • Rupert 66 (1703) – rebuild of 1666 Rupert
    HMS Rupert (1666)
    HMS Rupert was a 64-gun third rate ship of the line of the Royal Navy, ordered on 26 October 1664 as part of the ship construction programme of that year...
    
      to different design, reduced to fourth rate 1716, broken up 1736 (then rebuilt again from 1737 to 1740)
  • Defiance
    HMS Defiance (1675)
    HMS Defiance was a 64-gun third rate ship of the line of the Royal Navy, built by Phineas Pett II at Chatham Dockyard, and launched in 1675.In the summer of 1678, Defiance was under the command of John Ernle....
    
     66 (1707) – reduced to fourth rate 1716, hulk 1743, broken up 1749
• Fourth rates of 60 guns
  • Montague
    HMS Montague (1654)
    Lyme was a 52-gun third rate frigate built for the navy of the Commonwealth of England at Portsmouth, and launched in 1654.After the Restoration in 1660 she was renamed HMS Montague. She was widened in 1675 and underwent her first rebuild in 1698 at Woolwich Dockyard as a 60-gun fourth rate ship...
    
     60 (1698) – rebuilt 1716
  • Monck 60 (1702) – wrecked 1720
  • Dunkirk 60 (1704) – rebuilt 1734
  • Plymouth 60 (1705) – foundered 1705
  • Dreadnought 60 (1706) – enlarged 1722, hulk 1740, broken up 1748
• Fourth rates of 46-54 guns
  • Advice (1698) – captured 1711
  • (1699) – rebuilt 1712
  • Bonaventure
    HMS Bonaventure (1650)
    President was a 38-gun fourth rate frigate of the Royal Navy, originally built for the navy of the Commonwealth of England by Peter Pett I at Deptford Dockyard, and launched in 1650....
    
     (1699) – rebuilt 1711
  • Greenwich
    HMS Greenwich (1666)
    HMS Greenwich was a 54-gun fourth-rate ship of the line of the Royal Navy, built by Christopher Pett at Woolwich Dockyard and launched in 1666....
    
     (1699) – rebuilt 1730
  • (1699) – hulked 1706, broken up 1728
  • (1700) – rebuilt 1719
  • Southampton (1700) – hulked 1728, broken up 1771
  • (1701) – foundered 1703
  • Tiger
    HMS Tyger (1647)
    HMS Tyger, often spelled Tiger, was a 38-gun fourth rate frigate of the Royal Navy, built by Peter Pett II at Woolwich and launched in 1647. The term 'frigate' during the period of this ship referred to a method of construction, rather than a role which did not develop until the following century...
    
     (1702) – rebuilt 1722
  • Falkland
    HMS Falkland (1696)
    HMS Falkland was a 50-gun fourth-rate ship of the line of the Royal Navy, built by Holland of New Castle, New Hampshire, and purchased by the navy in 1696....
    
     (1702) – rebuilt 1720
  • (1704) – wrecked 1719
  • (1706) – captured 1707

1706 Establishment

The 1706 Establishment established a desired set of principal dimensions for each group (i.e. size) of warship from the 40-gun fifth rate up to the 90-gun second rate (first rates and ships of less than 40 guns were not covered by the 1706 Establishment). As only the principal dimensions were specified, the design of individual ships remained with the Master Shipwright in each Dockyard; thus ships of the same number of guns built to this Establishment did not constitute a class in the modern sense of all being built to one design.

• Second rates of 90 guns

The seven Second rates of this Establishment were ordered as 96-gun vessels under the ordnance specification of the 1703 Guns Establishment, but the subsequent 1716 Guns Establishment reduced this armament to 90 guns.

• • Marlborough 90 (1706) – ex-St Michael, rebuilt 1732
  • Blenheim 90 (1709) – ex-Duchess, broken up 1763
  • Neptune 90 (1710) – rebuilt 1730
  • Vanguard 90 (1710) – rebuilt 1739 and renamed Duke
  • Princess
    HMS Ossory (1682)
    HMS Ossory was a 90-gun second rate ship of the line of the Royal Navy, launched in 1682 at Portsmouth Dockyard. She was renamed HMS Prince in 1705....
    
     90 (1711) – ex-Ossory, renamed Princess Royal 1728, broken up 1773
  • Sandwich 90 (1712) – broken up 1770
  • Barfleur
    HMS Barfleur (1697)
    HMS Barfleur was a 90-gun second rate ship of the line of the Royal Navy, launched at Deptford Dockyard on 10 August 1697.She was rebuilt according to the 1706 Establishment at Deptford, relaunching on 27 June 1716. Barfleur was hulked in 1764, and eventually broken up in 1783....
    
     90 (1716) – hulked 1764, broken up 1783
• Third rates of 80 guns

The ten three-decker third rates of this Establishment were ordered as 80-gun vessels under the ordnance specification of the 1703 Guns Establishment, while the subsequent 1716 Guns Establishment retained this total (while making slight adjustments).

• • Boyne 80 (1708) – rebuilt 1739
  • Humber
    HMS Humber (1693)
    HMS Humber was an 80-gun third rate ship of the line of the Royal Navy, launched at Hull on 30 March 1693.She was rebuilt according to the 1706 Establishment at Deptford in 1708. Her guns, previously being mounted on two gundecks, where now mounted on three, though she remained classified as a...
    
     80 (1708) – rebuilt 1726 and renamed Princess Amelia
  • Russell 80 (1709) – rebuilt 1735
  • Cumberland
    HMS Cumberland (1710)
    HMS Cumberland was a three-deck 80-gun third rate ship of the line of the Royal Navy, built at Deptford Dockyard and launched on 27 December 1710...
    
     80 (1710) – broken up 1731 and rebuilt 1739
  • Devonshire
    HMS Devonshire (1710)
    HMS Devonshire was a three-deck 80-gun third rate ship of the line of the Royal Navy, built at Woolwich Dockyard and launched on 12 December 1710. Her design was according to the 1706 Establishment of dimensions as laid down for 80-gun ships....
    
     80 (1710) – hulk 1740, sold 1760
  • Dorsetshire 80 (1712) – sold 1749
  • Shrewsbury
    HMS Shrewsbury (1695)
    HMS Shrewsbury was a three-decker 80-gun third rate ship of the line of the Royal Navy, launched at Portsmouth Dockyard on 6 February 1695.Shrewsbury narrowly escaped destruction on the Goodwin Sands during the Great Storm on 26 November 1703...
    
     80 (1713) – broken up 1749
  • Cambridge
    HMS Cambridge (1695)
    HMS Cambridge was an 80-gun third rate ship of the line of the Royal Navy, launched at Deptford Dockyard on 21 December 1695.She was rebuilt according to the 1706 Establishment at Woolwich Dockyard, and relaunched on 17 September 1715...
    
     80 (1715) – broken up 1749
  • Torbay 80 (1719) – broken up 1749
  • Newark 80 (1717) – rebuilt 1747
• Third rates of 70 guns
  • Resolution
    HMS Resolution (1708)
    HMS Resolution was a 70-gun third rate ship of the line of the Royal Navy, built by Sir Joseph Allin according to the 1706 Establishment at Deptford Dockyard, and launched on 25 March 1708.Resolution was wrecked in 1711....
    
     70 (1708) – wrecked 1711
  • Captain
    HMS Captain (1678)
    HMS Captain was a 70-gun third rate ship of the line of the Royal Navy, launched at Woolwich Dockyard in 1678.She underwent her first rebuild at Portsmouth Dockyard, where she was reconstructed as a 70-gun third rate built to the 1706 Establishment, and relaunched on 6 July 1708...
    
     70 (1708) – rebuilt 1722
  • Grafton
    HMS Grafton (1709)
    HMS Grafton was a 70-gun third rate ship of the line of the Royal Navy. She was built by Swallow and Fowler, of Limehouse, London to the dimensions of the 1706 Establishment, and was launched on 9 August 1709....
    
     70 (1709) – rebuilt 1725
  • Hampton Court
    HMS Hampton Court (1709)
    HMS Hampton Court was a 70-gun third rate ship of the line of the Royal Navy, built at Rotherhithe according to the 1706 Establishment and launched on 19 August 1709....
    
     70 (1709) – rebuilt 1744
  • Edgar 70 (1709) – burnt 1711
  • Yarmouth
    HMS Yarmouth (1695)
    HMS Yarmouth was a 70-gun third rate ship of the line of the English Royal Navy, built for the navy by a private contractor at Harwich under the 1690 Programme, and launched in 1695....
    
     70 (1709) – hulked 1740
  • Orford
    HMS Orford (1698)
    HMS Orford was a 70-gun third rate ship of the line of the Royal Navy, launched at Deptford in 1698.. She carried twenty-two 24-pounder guns and four culverins on the lower deck; twenty-six 12-pounder guns on the upper deck; fourteen sakers on the quarter-deck and forecastle; and four 3-pounder...
    
     70 (1713) – rebuilt 1727
  • Royal Oak
    HMS Royal Oak (1674)
    HMS Royal Oak was a 74-gun third rate ship of the line of the Royal Navy, built by Jonas Shish at Deptford and launched in 1674. She was one of only three Royal Navy ships to be equipped with the Rupertinoe naval gun...
    
     70 (1713) – rebuilt 1741
  • Expedition 70 (1714) – renamed Prince Frederick 1715, rebuilt 1740
  • Monmouth
    HMS Monmouth (1667)
    HMS Monmouth was a 66-gun third-rate ship of the line of the Royal Navy, and was the second ship to be named for the town of Monmouth in Wales. She served from 1667 to 1767, winning ten battle honours over a century of active service...
    
     70 (1718) – rebuilt 1742
  • Revenge
    HMS Swiftsure (1673)
    HMS Swiftsure was a 70-gun third-rate ship of the line of the Royal Navy, built by Sir Anthony Deane at Harwich, and launched in 1673. By 1685 she had been reduced to a 66-gun ship.In 1692 she saw action at the Battles of Barfleur and La Hogue....
    
     70 (1718) – rebuilt 1742
  • Suffolk 70 (1718) – rebuilt 1739
• Fourth rates of 60 guns
  • Plymouth
    HMS Plymouth (1708)
    HMS Plymouth was a 60-gun fourth rate ship of the line of the Royal Navy, built at Plymouth Dockyard to the 1706 Establishment of dimensions, and launched on 25 May 1708....
    
     60 (1708) – rebuilt 1722
  • Lion
    HMS Lion (1709)
    HMS Lion was a 60-gun fourth rate ship of the line of the Royal Navy, built at Chatham Dockyard to the 1706 Establishment and launched on 20 January 1709....
    
     60 (1709) – rebuilt 1738
  • Gloucester
    HMS Gloucester (1709)
    HMS Gloucester was a 60-gun fourth rate ship of the line of the Royal Navy, built at Rotherhithe according to the 1706 Establishment, and launched on 25 July 1709....
    
     60 (1709) – captured 1709
  • Rippon
    HMS Rippon (1712)
    HMS Rippon was a 60-gun fourth rate ship of the line of the Royal Navy, built by Sir Joseph Allin at Deptford Dockyard and launched on 23 August 1712.Orders were issued on 23 June 1730 directing that Rippon be taken to pieces and rebuilt at Woolwich...
    
     60 (1712) – rebuilt 1735
  • Montague
    HMS Montague (1654)
    Lyme was a 52-gun third rate frigate built for the navy of the Commonwealth of England at Portsmouth, and launched in 1654.After the Restoration in 1660 she was renamed HMS Montague. She was widened in 1675 and underwent her first rebuild in 1698 at Woolwich Dockyard as a 60-gun fourth rate ship...
    
     60 (1716) – broken up 1749
  • Medway
    HMS Medway (1693)
    HMS Medway was a 60-gun fourth rate ship of the line of the Royal Navy, launched at Sheerness Dockyard on 20 September 1693.Medway, together with Chatam and Triton, captured Auguste on 19 August 1705....
    
     60 (1718) – hulk 1740, broken up 1749
  • Kingston
    HMS Kingston (1697)
    HMS Kingston was a 60-gun fourth rate ship of the line of the Royal Navy, built by Frame in Hull and launched on 13 March 1697. She had an eventful career, taking part in numerous engagements.-Career:...
    
     60 (1719) – rebuilt 1740
  • Nottingham 60 (1719) – rebuilt 1745
• Fourth rates of 50 guns

The first nineteen of the following vessels were ordered between 1706 and 1714 as 54-gun vessels, armed under the 1703 Guns Establishment with a main battery of 12-pounder guns. Under the 1716 Guns Establishment, the 54-gun ship was superseded by a 50-gun ship with a main battery of 18-pounder guns. The last ten ships listed below were ordered from 1715 onwards which were established and armed to the 1716 Guns Establishment, and the existing 54-gun ships were re-armed to this standard as each came into a dockyard for refitting and opportunity allowed.

• • Salisbury
    HMS Salisbury (1707)
    HMS Salisbury was a 50-gun fourth rate ship of the line of the Royal Navy, built at Chatham Dockyard to the dimensions of the 1706 Establishment, and launched on 3 July 1707...
    
     50 (1707) – rebuilt 1717
  • Dragon 50 (1707) – wrecked 1712
  • Falmouth
    HMS Falmouth (1708)
    HMS Falmouth was a 50-gun fourth-rate ship of the line of the Royal Navy, built at Woolwich Dockyard to the 1706 Establishment of dimensions, and launched on 26 February 1708....
    
     50 (1708) – rebuilt 1729
  • Pembroke
    HMS Pembroke (1710)
    HMS Pembroke was a 50-gun fourth rate ship of the line of the Royal Navy, built at Plymouth Dockyard to the 1706 Establishment, and launched on 18 May 1710.Pembroke served until 1726, when she was broken up....
    
     50 (1710) – broken up 1726
  • Ruby
    HMS Ruby (1708)
    HMS Ruby was a 50-gun fourth rate ship of the line of the Royal Navy, built by Sir Joseph Allin at Deptford Dockyard to the 1706 Establishment, and launched on 25 March 1708....
    
     50 (1708) – renamed Mermaid and reduced to 44-gun fifth rate May 1744, sold 1748
  • Chester
    HMS Chester (1708)
    HMS Chester was a 50-gun fourth rate ship of the line of the Royal Navy, built at Chatham Dockyard to the 1706 Establishment of dimensions, and launched on 18 October 1708....
    
     50 (1708) – harbour service 1743, broken up 1749
  • Romney
    HMS Romney (1708)
    HMS Romney was a 50-gun fourth rate ship of the line of the Royal Navy, built by Sir Joseph Allin to the 1706 Establishment at Deptford Dockyard, and launched on 2 December 1708....
    
     50 (1708) – rebuilt 1726
  • Bonaventure
    HMS Bonaventure (1650)
    President was a 38-gun fourth rate frigate of the Royal Navy, originally built for the navy of the Commonwealth of England by Peter Pett I at Deptford Dockyard, and launched in 1650....
    
     50 (1711) – renamed Argyll
    HMS Argyll
    Several ships of the Royal Navy have been named HMS Argyll after the region of Argyll in Scotland. Her motto is ne obliviscaris ....
    
     1715, rebuilt 1722
  • Bristol
    HMS Bristol (1711)
    HMS Bristol was a 50-gun fourth rate ship of the line of the Royal Navy, built at Plymouth Dockyard according to the 1706 Establishment, and launched on 8 May 1711.On 22 November 1742 Bristol was ordered to be dismantled for rebuilding...
    
     50 (1711) – broken up 1742, rebuilt 1746
  • Warwick
    HMS Warwick (1696)
    HMS Warwick was a 50-gun fourth rate ship of the line of the Royal Navy, built at Deptford and launched in 1696.She was rebuilt according to the 1706 Establishment at Rotherhithe, and relaunched on 9 January 1711. Warwick was broken up in 1726....
    
     50 (1711) – broken up 1726
  • Ormonde
    HMS Ormonde (1711)
    HMS Ormonde was a 50-gun fourth rate ship of the line of the Royal Navy, built at Woolwich Dockyard to the 1706 Establishment of dimensions, and launched on 18 October 1711.In September 1715, she was renamed Dragon...
    
     50 (1711) – renamed Dragon 1715, broken up 1733 for rebuild
  • Assistance 50 (1713) – rebuilt 1725
  • Gloucester
    HMS Gloucester (1711)
    HMS Gloucester was a 50-gun fourth rate ship of the line of the Royal Navy, built by Sir Joseph Allin to the 1706 Establishment of dimensions at Deptford Dockyard, and launched on 4 October 1711....
    
     50 (1711) – rebuilt 1737
  • Advice
    HMS Advice (1712)
    HMS Advice was a 50-gun fourth rate ship of the line of the Royal Navy, built by Sir Joseph Allin according to the 1706 Establishment of dimensions at Deptford Dockyard, and launched on 8 July 1712....
    
     50 (1712) – renamed Milford and reduced to 44-gun fifth rate 1744, sold 1749
  • Strafford
    HMS Strafford (1714)
    HMS Strafford was a 50-gun fourth rate ship of the line of the Royal Navy, built to the 1706 Establishment at Plymouth Dockyard, and launched on 16 July 1714.Strafford served until 1733, when she was broken up....
    
     50 (1714) – broken up 1733
  • Worcester
    HMS Worcester (1698)
    HMS Worcester was a 50-gun fourth rate ship of the line of the Royal Navy, launched at Southampton on 31 May 1698.She underwent a rebuild according to the 1706 Establishment at Deptford Dockyard, relaunching on 31 August 1714. Worcester was broken up in 1733....
    
     50 (1714) – broken up 1733
  • Panther 50 (1716) – hulked 1743, sold 1768
  • Dartmouth 50 (1716) – rebuilt 1741
  • Rochester 50 (1716) – renamed Maidstone hospital ship 1744, broken up 1748
  • Nonsuch 50 (1717) – hulked 1740, broken up 1745
  • Salisbury 50 (1717) – rebuilt 1726
  • Winchester
    HMS Winchester (1698)
    HMS Winchester was a 50-gun fourth rate ship of the line of the Royal Navy, built by Richard Wells at Greenland North Dockyard, Rotherhithe and launched on 17 March 1698....
    
     50 (1717) – hulked 1744, broken up 1781
  • St Albans
    HMS St Albans (1706)
    HMS St Albans was a 50-gun fourth rate ship of the line of the Royal Navy, built at Rotherhithe and launched on 10 December 1706.St Albans underwent her first rebuild at Plymouth Dockyard, where she was reconstructed to the dimensions laid out in the 1706 Establishment, and relaunched on 6 March 1718...
    
     50 (1718) – broken up 1734
  • Guernsey 50 (1717) – rebuilt 1740
  • Norwich
    HMS Norwich (1693)
    HMS Norwich was a 50-gun fourth rate ship of the line of the Royal Navy, launched at Deptford in 1693.She was rebuilt according to the 1706 Establishment at Chatham Dockyard, relaunching on 20 May 1718. In 1744 she was reduced to a fifth rate and renamed HMS Enterprise...
    
     50 (1718) – renamed Enterprise and reduced to 44-gun fifth rate 1744, broken up 1771
  • Deptford 50 (1719) – sold 1725
  • Tiger
    HMS Tyger (1647)
    HMS Tyger, often spelled Tiger, was a 38-gun fourth rate frigate of the Royal Navy, built by Peter Pett II at Woolwich and launched in 1647. The term 'frigate' during the period of this ship referred to a method of construction, rather than a role which did not develop until the following century...
    
     50 (1722) – wrecked 1742
  • Weymouth
    HMS Weymouth (1693)
    HMS Weymouth was a 50-gun fourth rate ship of the line of the Royal Navy, launched at Portsmouth Dockyard in 1693.She was rebuilt at Woolwich Dockyard according to the 1706 Establishment, relaunching on 26 February 1719. Weymouth continued to serve until 1732, when she was broken up....
    
     50 (1719) – broken up 1732
  • Swallow
    HMS Swallow (1703)
    HMS Swallow was a 50-gun fourth rate ship of the line of the Royal Navy, built at Deptford Dockyard and launched on 10 February 1703. Swallow was rebuilt according to the 1706 Establishment at Chatham Dockyard, and was relaunched on 25 March 1719...
    
     50 (1719) – broken up 1728
• Fifth rates of 40-44 guns

Note: These small two-decker warships were not ships of the line as they were not powerful enough to stand in the line of battle. They are included in this article as, frankly, they do not 'fit' elsewhere into a list of 18th century British warships.
The Navy Board ordered sixteen of the eighteen following vessels between 1705 and 1711 as 42-gun vessels. The Looe and Diamond were not ordered but rather the Navy Board purchased them on the stocks from the shipbuilder who had commenced building them "on spec". All the vessels were armed under the 1703 Guns Establishment with a main battery of 9-pounder guns. Under the 1716 Guns Establishment, a 40-gun ship with a main battery of 12-pounder guns superseded the 42-gun ship. Hence, the last six of the ships listed below were completed as 40-gun ships.

• • Ludlow Castle 42 (1707) – broken up 1721
  • Gosport 42 (1707) – broken up 1735
  • Portsmouth 42 (1707) – broken up 1728
  • Hastings 42 (1707) – sold for breaking 1745
  • Looe 42 (1707) – sunk as a breakwater 1737
  • Diamond 42 (1708) – broken up 1721 to rebuild
  • Sapphire 42 (1708) – sold for breaking 1745
  • Enterprise 42 (1709) – sold for breaking 1749
  • Pearl 42 (1708) – broken up 1723 to rebuild
  • Southsea Castle 42 (1708) – broken up 1723 to rebuild
  • Adventure 42 (1709) – broken up 1724 to rebuild
  • Mary Galley 42 (1708) – broken up 1721 to rebuild
  • Fowey 40 (1709) – renamed Queenborough 1744, sold for breaking 1746
  • Royal Anne Galley 40 (1709) – wrecked 1721
  • Charles Galley 40 (1710) – renamed Torrington 1729, broken up 1744
  • Launceston 40 (1711) – broken up 1726 to rebuild
  • Faversham 40 (1712) – broken up 1730 to rebuild
  • Lynn 40 (1715) – broken up 1732

Captured ships, War of Spanish Succession

• Prompt Prize 80 (third rate) (1692, ex-French Prompt 76, captured 12 October 1702), sunk as a wharf 1703
• Assurance 70 (third rate) (1697, ex-French Assuré 66, captured 12 October 1702), broken up 1712
• Ferme 70 (third rate) (1700, ex-French Ferme, captured 12 October 1702), sold 1713
• Moderate 64 (fourth rate) (1685, ex-French Modéré, captured 12 October 1702), sold 1713
• Triton 42 (fifth rate, i.e. not a ship of the line) (1697, ex-French Triton, captured 12 October 1702) – sold 1709
• Hazardous 52 (fourth rate) (1701, ex-French Hasardeux, captured 6 November 1703) – wrecked 1706
• Falkland Prize 54 (fourth rate) (1698, ex-French flûte
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   Seine, captured 15 July 1704) – wrecked 1705 and sold 1706
• Arrogant 60 (fourth rate) (1685, ex-French Arrogant, captured 20 March 1705), foundered 1709
• August 60 (fourth rate) (1704, ex-French Auguste, captured 8 August 1705), wrecked 1716
• Superb 64 (fourth rate) (1708, ex-French Superbe, captured 29 July 1710), broken up 1732
• Moor 54 (fourth rate) (1688, ex-French Maure, captured 13 December 1710, scuttled as a breakwater 1716

List of ships-of-the-line of the Royal Navy (1719-1741)

Number of main guns follows name (see rating system of the Royal Navy

Rating system of the Royal Navy

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Except where stated otherwise, these ships are listed in the order of p169-171 The Ship of the Line Volume I, by Brian Lavery, pub Conways, 1983, ISBN 0-85177-252-8

1719 Establishment

• First rates of 100 guns
  • Royal Sovereign 100 (1728) – broken up 1768
• Second rates of 90 guns
  • Prince George 90 (1723) – Burnt by accident 1768
  • Union
    HMS Albemarle (1680)
    HMS Albemarle was a 90-gun second rate ship of the line of the Royal Navy, launched in 1680 at Harwich.She was rebuilt in 1704 at Chatham Dockyard, remaining a 90-gun second rater. She was also renamed HMS Union at this time...
    
     90 (1726) – broken up 1749
  • Namur
    HMS Namur (1697)
    HMS Namur was a 90-gun second rate ship of the line of the Royal Navy, launched at Woolwich Dockyard in 1697.On 11 June 1723 she was ordered to be taken to pieces and rebuilt at Deptford, according to the 1719 Establishment. She was relaunched on 13 September 1729. In 1745, she was razeed to 74...
    
     90 (1729) – reduced to 74 guns 1745, wrecked 1749
  • Neptune 90 (1730) – renamed Torbay
    HMS Torbay
    Five ships of the British Royal Navy have been named HMS Torbay, after Torbay on the southwest English coast.* HMS Torbay, an 80-gun second rate launched in 1693, rebuilt in 1719 and broken up in 1749....
    
     and reduced to 74 guns 1750, sold 1784
  • Marlborough 90 (1732) – reduced to 68 guns 1752, foundered 1762
• Third rates of 80 guns
  • Lancaster 80 (1722) – rebuilt 1749
  • Princess Amelia
    HMS Humber (1693)
    HMS Humber was an 80-gun third rate ship of the line of the Royal Navy, launched at Hull on 30 March 1693.She was rebuilt according to the 1706 Establishment at Deptford in 1708. Her guns, previously being mounted on two gundecks, where now mounted on three, though she remained classified as a...
    
     80 (1723) – ex-Humber, broken up 1752
  • Cornwall 80 (1726) – broken up 1761
  • Norfolk
    HMS Norfolk (1693)
    HMS Norfolk was an 80-gun third rate ship of the line of the Royal Navy. She was built at Southampton and launched on 28 March 1693, and was the first ship to bear the name. She was rebuilt at Plymouth according to the 1719 Establishment, and was re-launched on 21 September 1728...
    
     80 (1728) – renamed Princess Amelia 1755, broken up 1757
  • Somerset
    HMS Somerset (1731)
    HMS Somerset was an 80-gun third rate ship of the line of the Royal Navy, built to the 1719 Establishment at Woolwich and launched on 21 October 1731. She was the second ship to bear the name....
    
     80 (1731) – broken up 1746
  • Princess Caroline
    HMS Ranelagh (1697)
    HMS Ranelagh was a three-decker 80-gun third rate ship of the line of the Royal Navy, launched at Deptford Dockyard on 25 June 1697. She took part in a number of actions during the War of the Spanish Succession, including the Battle of Vigo in 1702 and the Battle of Vélez-Málaga in 1704.On 20...
    
     80 (1731) – ex-Ranelagh, broken up 1764
  • Russell 80 (1735) – sunk as a breakwater 1762
• Third rates of 70 guns
  • Edinburgh 70 (1721) – ex-Warspite, rebuilt 1744
  • Northumberland 70 (1721) – rebuilt 1743
  • Burford
    HMS Burford (1722)
    HMS Burford was a 70-gun third rate ship of the line of the Royal Navy, built at Deptford Dockyard to the 1719 Establishment, and launched on 19 July 1722...
    
     70 (1722) – broken up 1752
  • Captain
    HMS Captain (1678)
    HMS Captain was a 70-gun third rate ship of the line of the Royal Navy, launched at Woolwich Dockyard in 1678.She underwent her first rebuild at Portsmouth Dockyard, where she was reconstructed as a 70-gun third rate built to the 1706 Establishment, and relaunched on 6 July 1708...
    
     70 (1722) – hulked 1739, broken up 1762
  • Stirling Castle 70 (1723) – hulked 1739, broken up 1771
  • Berwick
    HMS Berwick (1723)
    HMS Berwick was a 70-gun third rate ship of the line of the Royal Navy, built at Deptford Dockyard and launched on 23 July 1723.Berwick was converted to a hulk in 1743, and eventually broken up in 1763....
    
     70 (1723) – hulked 1743, broken up 1763
  • Lenox
    HMS Lenox (1678)
    HMS Lenox was a 70-gun third rate ship of the line of the Royal Navy, launched at Deptford Dockyard on 18 April 1678.She was rebuilt at Deptford in 1701, remaining as a 70-gun third rate. In 1707, she had belonged to Admiral Sir Cloudesley Shovell's fleet...
    
     70 (1723) – sunk as a breakwater 1756
  • Kent
    HMS Kent (1679)
    HMS Kent was a 70-gun third rate ship of the line of the Royal Navy, launched at Blackwall Yard in 1679. She was the second ship of the name....
    
     70 (1724) – broken up 1744
  • Grafton
    HMS Grafton (1709)
    HMS Grafton was a 70-gun third rate ship of the line of the Royal Navy. She was built by Swallow and Fowler, of Limehouse, London to the dimensions of the 1706 Establishment, and was launched on 9 August 1709....
    
     70 (1725) – broken up 1744
  • Ipswich 70 (1730) – hulked 1757, broken up 1764
  • Buckingham
    HMS Buckingham (1731)
    HMS Buckingham was a 70-gun third rate ship of the line of the Royal Navy, built at Deptford Dockyard to the 1719 Establishment, and launched on 13 April 1731.Buckingham served until 1745 when she was broken up....
    
     70 (1731) – broken up 1745
  • Prince of Orange
    HMS Prince of Orange (1734)
    HMS Prince of Orange was a 70-gun third rate ship of the line of the Royal Navy, built to the 1719 Establishment at Deptford Dockyard, and launched on 5 September 1734....
    
     70 (1734) – reduced to 60 guns 1748, sheer hulk 1772, sold 1810
• Fourth rates of 60 guns
  • Canterbury
    HMS Canterbury (1693)
    HMS Canterbury was a 60-gun fourth rate ship of the line of the Royal Navy, launched at Deptford on 18 December 1693.She was rebuilt at Portsmouth according to the 1719 Establishment, and was relaunched on 15 September 1722...
    
     60 (1722) – rebuilt 1744
  • Plymouth 60 (1722) – broken up 1764
  • Sunderland
    HMS Sunderland (1724)
    HMS Sunderland was a 60-gun fourth rate ship of the line of the Royal Navy, built to the 1719 Establishment at Chatham Dockyard, and launched on 30 April 1724....
    
     60 (1724) – rebuilt 1744
  • Windsor
    HMS Windsor (1695)
    HMS Windsor was a 60-gun fourth rate ship of the line of the Royal Navy, launched at Deptford on 31 October 1695.On 18 November 1725 she was ordered to be taken to pieces and rebuilt according to the 1719 Establishment at Deptford, and she was relaunched on 27 October 1729...
    
     60 (1729) – rebuilt 1745
  • Deptford
    HMS Deptford (1732)
    HMS Deptford was a 60-gun fourth rate ship of the line of the Royal Navy, built to the dimensions of the 1719 Establishment at Deptford Dockyard, and launched on 22 August 1732....
    
     60 (1732) – reduced to 50 guns 1752, sold 1767
  • Swallow
    HMS Swallow (1732)
    HMS Swallow was a 60-gun fourth rate ship of the line of the Royal Navy, built to the dimensions of the 1719 Establishment at the Yard at Plymouth Dock , and launched on 6 October 1732....
    
     60 (1732) – broken up 1742
  • Tilbury
    HMS Tilbury (1733)
    HMS Tilbury was a 60-gun fourth rate ship of the line of the Royal Navy, built at Chatham Dockyard to the dimensions of the 1719 Establishment, and launched on 2 June 1733....
    
     60 (1733) – burnt 1742
  • Warwick
    HMS Warwick (1733)
    HMS Warwick was a 60-gun fourth rate ship of the line of the Royal Navy, built to the 1719 Establishment at Plymouth Dockyard, and launched on 25 October 1733....
    
     60 (1733) – captured 1756
  • Pembroke
    HMS Pembroke (1733)
    HMS Pembroke was a 60-gun fourth rate ship of the line of the Royal Navy, built to the dimensions of the 1719 Establishment at Woolwich Dockyard, and launched on 27 November 1733....
    
     60 (1733) – wrecked 1749
  • Dunkirk 60 (1734) – wrecked 1749
• Fourth rates of 50 guns
  • Falkland
    HMS Falkland (1696)
    HMS Falkland was a 50-gun fourth-rate ship of the line of the Royal Navy, built by Holland of New Castle, New Hampshire, and purchased by the navy in 1696....
    
     50 (1720) – rebuilt 1744
  • Chatham
    HMS Chatham (1691)
    HMS Chatham was a 50-gun fourth rate ship of the line of the Royal Navy, launched on 20 October 1691 at Chatham Dockyard.In 1705 she captured the French 60-gun Third Rate Auguste built in Brest in 1704. The British took her into service as Auguste.She underwent a rebuild according to the 1719...
    
     50 (1721) – sunk as a breakwater 1749
  • Colchester 50 (1721) – broken up 1742
  • Leopard 50 (1721) – broken up 1739
  • Argyll 50 (1722) – sunk as a breakwater 1748
  • Portland
    HMS Portland (1693)
    HMS Portland was a 50-gun fourth rate ship of the line of the Royal Navy, launched at Woolwich Dockyard on 28 March 1693.She was rebuilt according to the 1719 Establishment at Portsmouth, and was relaunched on 25 February 1723....
    
     50 (1723) – broken up 1743
  • Assistance 50 (1725) – sunk as a breakwater 1745
  • Romney
    HMS Romney (1708)
    HMS Romney was a 50-gun fourth rate ship of the line of the Royal Navy, built by Sir Joseph Allin to the 1706 Establishment at Deptford Dockyard, and launched on 2 December 1708....
    
     50 (1726) – sold 1757
  • Salisbury 50 (1726) – hulked 1744, sold 1749
  • Oxford
    HMS Oxford (1674)
    HMS Oxford was a 54-gun fourth rate ship of the line of the Royal Navy, built by Francis Baylie in Bristol and launched in June 1674. Her guns comprised twenty-two 24-pounders on the lower deck, with twenty-two large sakers on the upper deck and ten smaller sakers on the quarter deck.On 23...
    
     50 (1727) – broken up 1758
  • Falmouth
    HMS Falmouth (1708)
    HMS Falmouth was a 50-gun fourth-rate ship of the line of the Royal Navy, built at Woolwich Dockyard to the 1706 Establishment of dimensions, and launched on 26 February 1708....
    
     50 (1729) – broken up 1747
  • Lichfield
    HMS Lichfield (1695)
    HMS Lichfield was a 50-gun fourth-rate ship of the line of the Royal Navy, built at Portsmouth Dockyard and launched on 4 February 1695....
    
     50 (1730) – broken up 1744
  • Greenwich 50 (1730) – wrecked 1744
  • Newcastle
    HMS Newcastle (1704)
    HMS Newcastle was a 50-gun fourth rate ship of the line of the Royal Navy, built at Sheerness Dockyard and launched on 10 March 1704.Orders were issued on 31 May 1728 for Newcastle to be taken to pieces and rebuilt at Woolwich according to the 1719 Establishment of dimensions. She was relaunched on...
    
     50 (1732) – broken up 1746
• Fifth rates of 40-44 guns

Note: These small two-decker warships were not ships of the line as they were not powerful enough to stand in the line of battle. They are included in this article as, frankly, they do not 'fit' elsewhere into a list of 18th century British warships. All thirteen were rebuilds of earlier 40-gun ships (the Torrington and Princess Louisa were renamed when rebuilt from the former Charles Galley and Launceston respectively), although the Anglesea and Adventure were authorised as 'Great Repairs' rather than as rebuildings.

• • Hector 40 (1721) – broken up 1742
  • Diamond 40 (1723) – broken up 1744
  • Ludlow Castle 40 (1724) – broken up 1749
  • Southsea Castle 40 (1724) – broken up 1744
  • Anglesea
    HMS Anglesea (1694)
    HMS Anglesea was a 50-gun fourth rate ship of the line of the Royal Navy, launched at Plymouth Dockyard in 1694.Anglesea was reduced to a fifth rate in 1719, and underwent a rebuild in 1725....
    
     40 (1725) – sunk as a breakwater 1742
  • Kinsale 40 (1725) – broken up 1741
  • Adventure 40 (1726) – broken up 1741
  • Lark 40 (1726) – capsized 1744
  • Pearl 40 (1726) – broken up 1744
  • Mary Galley 40 (1727) – broken up 1744
  • Princess Louisa 40 (1728) – wrecked 1736
  • Torrington 40 (1729) – broken up 1744
  • Roebuck 40 (1733) – sunk as a breakwater 1743

Non-Establishment 60-gun ships

• Centurion
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   in his world voyage, reduced to 50 guns 1744, broken up 1769
• Rippon 60 (1735) – broken up 1751

1733 Proposals

• First rate of 100 guns
  • Victory
    HMS Victory (1737)
    HMS Victory was a 100-gun first-rate ship of the line of the Royal Navy, built to the dimensions of the 1733 proposals of the 1719 Establishment at Portsmouth Dockyard, and launched on 23 February 1737.-Construction:...
    
     100 (1737) – wrecked 1744
• Second rates of 90 guns
  • Duke 90 (1739) – broken up 1769
  • St George 90 (1740) – broken up 1774
• Third rates of 80 guns
  • Boyne 80 (1739) – broken up 1763
  • Cumberland
    HMS Cumberland (1710)
    HMS Cumberland was a three-deck 80-gun third rate ship of the line of the Royal Navy, built at Deptford Dockyard and launched on 27 December 1710...
    
     80 (1739) – reduced to 66 guns in 1747, foundered 1760
• Third rates of 70 guns
  • Elizabeth 70 (1737) – broken up 1766
  • Suffolk 70 (1739) – broken up 1765
  • Essex 70 (1740) – wrecked 1759
  • Nassau 70 (1740) – sold 1770
  • Prince Frederick
    HMS Expedition (1679)
    HMS Expedition was a 70-gun third-rate ship of the line of the Royal Navy, launched at Portsmouth Dockyard in 1679.Expedition was rebuilt as a 70-gun third rate in 1699 at Chatham Dockyard. She was rebuilt for a second time as a 70-gun third rate to the 1706 Establishment at Portsmouth Dockyard,...
    
     70 (1740) – sold 1784
  • Bedford
    HMS Bedford (1698)
    HMS Bedford was a 70-gun third rate ship of the line of the Royal Navy, launched at Woolwich Dockyard on 12 September 1698. She carried twenty-two 24-pounder guns and four culverins on the lower deck; twenty-six 12-pounder guns on the upper deck; fourteen sakers on the quarter-deck and...
    
     70 (1741) – hulked 1767, sold 1787
  • Royal Oak
    HMS Royal Oak (1674)
    HMS Royal Oak was a 74-gun third rate ship of the line of the Royal Navy, built by Jonas Shish at Deptford and launched in 1674. She was one of only three Royal Navy ships to be equipped with the Rupertinoe naval gun...
    
     70 (1741) – hulked 1757, broken up 1763
  • Stirling Castle
    HMS Stirling Castle (1742)
    HMS Stirling Castle was a 70-gun third rate ship of the line of the Royal Navy, built at Chatham Dockyard to the 1733 proposals of the 1719 Establishment, and launched on 24 April 1742....
    
     70 (1742) – lost 1762
  • Monmouth
    HMS Monmouth (1667)
    HMS Monmouth was a 66-gun third-rate ship of the line of the Royal Navy, and was the second ship to be named for the town of Monmouth in Wales. She served from 1667 to 1767, winning ten battle honours over a century of active service...
    
     70 (1742) – broken up 1767
  • Revenge
    HMS Swiftsure (1673)
    HMS Swiftsure was a 70-gun third-rate ship of the line of the Royal Navy, built by Sir Anthony Deane at Harwich, and launched in 1673. By 1685 she had been reduced to a 66-gun ship.In 1692 she saw action at the Battles of Barfleur and La Hogue....
    
     70 (1742) – sold 1787
  • Captain
    HMS Captain (1743)
    HMS Captain was a 70-gun third rate ship of the line of the Royal Navy, built according to the 1733 proposals of the 1719 Establishment at Woolwich Dockyard, and launched on 14 April 1743....
    
     70 (1743) – reduced to 64 guns 1760, storeship 1777, broken up 1783
  • Berwick
    HMS Berwick (1743)
    HMS Berwick was a 70-gun third rate ship of the line of the Royal Navy, built to the 1733 proposals of the 1719 Establishment at Deptford Dockyard, and launched on 13 June 1743. It participated in the Battle of Toulon under the command of Sir Edward Hawke.Berwick was broken up in 1760....
    
     70 (1743) – broken up 1760
• Fourth rates of 60 guns
  • Weymouth
    HMS Weymouth (1734)
    HMS Weymouth was a 60-gun fourth rate ship of the line of the Royal Navy, built according to the 1733 proposals of the 1719 Establishment of dimensions at Plymouth Dockyard, and launched on 31 March 1734.-Loss:...
    
     60 (1734) – wrecked 1745
  • 60 (1735) – scuttled as a breakwater 1756
  • Worcester
    HMS Worcester (1735)
    HMS Worcester was a 60-gun fourth rate ship of the line of the Royal Navy, built at Portsmouth Dockyard to the 1733 proposals of the 1719 Establishment, and launched on 20 December 1735....
    
     60 (1735) – broken up 1765
  • Augusta
    HMS Augusta (1736)
    HMS Augusta was a 60-gun fourth rate ship of the line of the Royal Navy, built to the 1733 proposals of the 1719 Establishment at Deptford Dockyard, and launched on 1 July 1736.Augusta served until 1765, when she was broken up....
    
     60 (1736) – broken up 1765
  • Dragon
    HMS Dragon (1736)
    HMS Dragon was a 60-gun fourth rate ship of the line of the Royal Navy, built to the 1733 proposals of the 1719 Establishment at Woolwich Dockyard, and launched on 11 September 1736.In February 1744, she took part in the Battle of Toulon....
    
     60 (1736) – scuttled as breakwater 1757
  • Jersey
    HMS Jersey (1736)
    HMS Jersey was a 60-gun fourth rate ship of the line of the Royal Navy, built to the 1733 proposals of the 1719 Establishment of dimensions at Plymouth Dockyard, and launched on 14 June 1736. She is perhaps most noted for her service as a prison ship during the American Revolutionary War.-Early...
    
     60 (1736) – hospital ship1771, abandoned 1783
  • Superb
    HMS Superb (1736)
    HMS Superb was a 60-gun fourth rate ship of the line of the Royal Navy, built to the 1733 proposals of the 1719 Establishment of dimensions at Woolwich Dockyard, and launched on 27 August 1736.Superb was broken up in 1757....
    
     60 (1736) – broken up 1757
  • Lion
    HMS Lion (1709)
    HMS Lion was a 60-gun fourth rate ship of the line of the Royal Navy, built at Chatham Dockyard to the 1706 Establishment and launched on 20 January 1709....
    
     60 (1738) – sold 1765
  • Kingston
    HMS Kingston (1697)
    HMS Kingston was a 60-gun fourth rate ship of the line of the Royal Navy, built by Frame in Hull and launched on 13 March 1697. She had an eventful career, taking part in numerous engagements.-Career:...
    
     60 (1740) – sold 1762
  • Rupert 60 (1740) – Rebuild of 1713 Rupert to a different design, broken up 1769
  • Dreadnought
    HMS Dreadnought (1742)
    HMS Dreadnought was a 60-gun fourth rate ship of the line of the Royal Navy, built according to the 1733 proposals of the 1719 Establishment at Deptford, and launched on 23 June 1742....
    
     60 (1742) – sold 1784
  • Medway
    HMS Medway (1693)
    HMS Medway was a 60-gun fourth rate ship of the line of the Royal Navy, launched at Sheerness Dockyard on 20 September 1693.Medway, together with Chatam and Triton, captured Auguste on 19 August 1705....
    
     60 (1740) – broken up 1749
  • Princess Mary
    HMS Mary (1704)
    HMS Mary was a 60-gun fourth rate ship of the line of the Royal Navy, built at Chatham Dockyard and launched on 12 May 1704.Orders were issued on 15 December 1736 for Mary to be taken to pieces and rebuilt according to the 1733 proposals of the 1719 Establishment at Portsmouth, from where she was...
    
     60 (1742) – Sold1762
  • Exeter 60 (1744) – broken up 1763
  • Nottingham 60 (1745) – scuttled as breakwater 1773
• Fourth rates of 50 guns
  • Gloucester 50 (1737) – damaged in storm and burnt to avoid capture 1742
  • St Albans
    HMS St Albans (1706)
    HMS St Albans was a 50-gun fourth rate ship of the line of the Royal Navy, built at Rotherhithe and launched on 10 December 1706.St Albans underwent her first rebuild at Plymouth Dockyard, where she was reconstructed to the dimensions laid out in the 1706 Establishment, and relaunched on 6 March 1718...
    
     50 (1737) – wrecked 1744
  • Severn 50 (1739) – captured by France 1746
  • 50 (1740) – hulk 1769, sold 1786
  • Hampshire
    HMS Hampshire (1741)
    HMS Hampshire was a 50-gun fourth rate ship of the line of the Royal Navy, built to the 1733 proposals of the 1719 Establishment of dimensions at Ipswich, and launched on 13 November 1741.Hampshire served until being broken up in 1766....
    
     50 (1741) – broken up 1766
  • Leopard
    HMS Leopard (1741)
    HMS Leopard was a 50-gun fourth rate ship of the line of the Royal Navy, built according to the 1733 proposals of the 1719 Establishment at Blackwall Yard, and launched on 30 October 1741.Leopard was broken up in 1761....
    
     50 (1741) – broken up 1761
  • Nonsuch
    HMS Nonsuch (1741)
    HMS Nonsuch was a 50-gun fourth rate ship of the line of the Royal Navy, built to the 1733 proposals of the 1719 Establishment at Rotherhithe, and launched on 29 December 1741.Nonsuch served until 1766, when she was broken up....
    
     50 (1741) – broken up 1766
  • Sutherland
    HMS Sutherland (1741)
    HMS Sutherland was a 50-gun fourth rate ship of the line of the Royal Navy, built at Rotherhithe according to the dimensions laid out in the 1733 proposals of the 1719 Establishment, and launched on 15 October 1741....
    
     50 (1741) – sold 1770
  • Antelope
    HMS Antelope (1741)
    HMS Antelope was a 50-gun fourth rate ship of the line of the Royal Navy, launched at Rotherhithe on 13 March 1703. She was rebuilt once during her career, and served in the Seven Years' War and the American Revolutionary War....
    
     50 (1742) – sold 1783
  • Dartmouth 50 (1741) – sunk 1747 in action
    Voyage of the Glorioso
    The voyage of the Glorioso involved four naval engagements fought in 1747 during the War of the Austrian Succession between the Spanish 70-gun ship of the line Glorioso and several British squadrons of ships of the line and frigates which tried to capture it...
    
     with the Spanish ship of the line Glorioso
  • Woolwich 50 (1741) – broken up 1747
  • Preston 50 (1742) – hulk 1748, broken up 1749

Smaller ships (fifth rates)

No other ships-of-the-line were built. The following small two-deckers were built to carry 40 guns and classed as fifth rates, but they were not designed to form part of the battlefleet. Consequently, they are not included in Lavery's Ship of the Line, but they are included in Winfield's British Warships in the Age of Sail 1714-1792, which covers all vessels of that period.

• 1733 proposals
  • Eltham (1736) – broken up 1763
  • Dover (1741) – sold 1763
  • Folkestone (1741) – sold 1749
  • Faversham (1741) – sold 1749
  • Lynn (1741) – sold 1763
  • Gosport (1741) – broken up 1768
  • Sapphire (1741) – razée
    Razee
    A razee or razée is a sailing ship that has been cut down to reduce the number of decks. The word is derived from the French vaisseau rasé, meaning a razed ship.-Sixteenth century:...
    
    d to 32-gun frigate 1756-58, sold 1784
  • Hastings (1741) – broken up 1763
  • Liverpool (1741) – sold 1763
  • Kinsale (1741) – sold 1763
  • Adventure (1741) – Raséed to 32-gun frigate 1756-58, sold 1770
  • Diamond (1741) – sold 1756
  • Launceston (1741) – sold 1784
  • Looe (1741) – wrecked 1744

List of ships-of-the-line of the Royal Navy (1741-1755)

Number of main guns follows name (see rating system of the Royal Navy

Rating system of the Royal Navy

The rating system of the Royal Navy and its predecessors was used by the British 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...

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Except where stated otherwise, these ships are listed in the order of p171-175 The Ship of the Line Volume I, by Brian Lavery, pub Conways, 1983, ISBN 0-85177-252-8

1741 proposals

• First rates of 100 guns

None built

• Second rates of 90 guns
  • Ramillies
    HMS Royal Katherine (1664)
    HMS Royal Katherine was an 84-gun second-rate ship of the line of the Royal Navy, launched in 1664 at Woolwich Dockyard.In the Second Anglo-Dutch War she fought at the Battle of Lowestoft , the Four Days' Battle , and the St. James's Day Battle...
    
     90 (1749) – wrecked 1760
  • Prince 90 (1750) – broken up 1773
• Third rates of 80 guns
  • Newark 80 (1747) – broken up 1787
  • Devonshire
    HMS Devonshire (1745)
    HMS Devonshire was a 66-gun third rate ship of the line of the Royal Navy, built to the dimensions laid out in the 1741 proposals of the 1719 Establishment at Woolwich Dockyard, and launched on 19 July 1745....
    
     80 (1745) – cut down and reduced to a 74-gun ship 1747, then immediately reduced further to a 66-gun ship. Broken up 1772
  • Lancaster 80 (1749) – completed as a ship of 66 guns. broken up 1773.
  • Culloden
    HMS Culloden (1747)
    HMS Culloden was a 74-gun third rate ship of the line of the Royal Navy, built according to the dimensions laid out by the 1741 proposals of the 1719 Establishment at Deptford Dockyard, and launched on 9 September 1747...
    
     80 (1747) – re-ordered and completed as a ship of 74 guns. sold 1770.
  • Somerset 80 (-) – re-ordered as a ship of 66 guns, but cancelled 1748.
• Third rates of 64 guns
  • Northumberland 66 (1743) – captured 1774
  • Edinburgh 66 (1744) – broken up 1771
  • Hampton Court 66 (1744) – broken up 1774
  • Kent
    HMS Kent (1746)
    HMS Kent was a 64-gun third rate ship of the line of the Royal Navy. She was ordered from Deptford Dockyard on 10 May 1743 to be built to the 1741 proposals of the 1719 Establishment, and was launched on 10 May 1746...
    
     64 (1746) – hulked 1760
  • Yarmouth 64 (1748) – reduced to 60 guns in 1781, broken up 1811
• Fourth rates of 58 guns
  • Princess Louisa
    HMS Princess Louisa (1744)
    HMS Princess Louisa was a 58-gun fourth rate ship of the line of the Royal Navy, built to the dimensions prescribed in the 1741 proposals of the 1719 Establishment at Limehouse, and launched on 1 July 1744....
    
     58 (1744) – broken up 1766
  • Defiance
    HMS Defiance (1744)
    HMS Defiance was a 58-gun fourth rate ship of the line of the Royal Navy, built to the dimensions laid out in the 1741 proposals of the 1719 Establishment at Deptford, and launched on 12 October 1744....
    
     58 (1744) – sold 1766
  • Canterbury
    HMS Canterbury (1693)
    HMS Canterbury was a 60-gun fourth rate ship of the line of the Royal Navy, launched at Deptford on 18 December 1693.She was rebuilt at Portsmouth according to the 1719 Establishment, and was relaunched on 15 September 1722...
    
     58 (1744) – harbour service 1761, broken up 1770
  • Sunderland
    HMS Sunderland (1724)
    HMS Sunderland was a 60-gun fourth rate ship of the line of the Royal Navy, built to the 1719 Establishment at Chatham Dockyard, and launched on 30 April 1724....
    
     58 (1745) – foundered 1761
  • Tilbury
    HMS Tilbury (1745)
    HMS Tilbury was a 58-gun fourth rate ship of the line of the Royal Navy, ordered from Portsmouth Dockyard on 17 December 1742 to be built to the dimensions laid down in the 1741 proposals of the 1719 Establishment...
    
     58 (1745) – foundered 1757
  • Eagle
    HMS Eagle (1745)
    HMS Eagle was a 58-gun fourth rate ship of the line of the Royal Navy, built at Harwich to the dimensions laid down in the 1741 proposals of the 1719 Establishment, and launched on 2 December 1745. Eagle is notable as being one of the ships on which James Cook began his career in the Royal Navy...
    
     58 (1745) – sold 1767
• Non-Establishment 58 gun ship
  • Windsor
    HMS Windsor (1695)
    HMS Windsor was a 60-gun fourth rate ship of the line of the Royal Navy, launched at Deptford on 31 October 1695.On 18 November 1725 she was ordered to be taken to pieces and rebuilt according to the 1719 Establishment at Deptford, and she was relaunched on 27 October 1729...
    
     58 (1745) – sold 1777
• Fourth rates of 50 guns
  • Chester
    HMS Chester (1743)
    HMS Chester was a 50-gun fourth rate ship of the line of the Royal Navy, built at Deptford to the dimensions laid down in the 1741 proposals of the 1719 Establishment, and launched on 18 February 1743.Chester was sold out of the navy in 1767....
    
     50 (1743) – sold 1767
  • Harwich
    HMS Harwich (1743)
    HMS Harwich was a 50-gun fourth rate ship of the line of the Royal Navy, built to the dimensions laid down in the 1741 proposals of the 1719 Establishment at Harwich, and launched on 22 December 1743.Harwich was wrecked in 1760....
    
     50 (1743) – wrecked 1760
  • Winchester
    HMS Winchester (1744)
    HMS Winchester was a 50-gun fourth rate ship of the line of the Royal Navy, built at Rotherhithe to the dimensions prescribed by the 1741 proposals of the 1719 Establishment, and launched on 3 May 1744.Winchester was sold out of the navy in 1769....
    
     50 (1744) – sold 1769
  • Maidstone
    HMS Maidstone (1744)
    HMS Maidstone was a 50-gun fourth rate ship of the line of the Royal Navy, built at Rotherhithe to the dimensions laid down in the 1741 proposals of the 1719 Establishment, and launched on 12 October 1744....
    
     50 (1744) – wrecked 1747
  • Colchester
    HMS Colchester (1744)
    HMS Colchester was a 50-gun fourth rate ship of the line of the Royal Navy, built at Harwich according to the dimensions specified in the 1741 proposals of the 1719 Establishment, and launched on 14 August 1744.-Shipwreck:...
    
     50 (1744) – wrecked 1744
  • Portland
    HMS Portland (1744)
    HMS Portland was a 50-gun fourth rate ship of the line of the Royal Navy, built at Limehouse according to the dimensions laid down in the 1741 proposals of the 1719 Establishment, and launched on 11 October 1744....
    
     50 (1744) – sold 1763
  • Falkland
    HMS Falkland (1696)
    HMS Falkland was a 50-gun fourth-rate ship of the line of the Royal Navy, built by Holland of New Castle, New Hampshire, and purchased by the navy in 1696....
    
     50 (1744) – given to victualling depot 1768
  • Salisbury 50 (1745) – condemned 1761
  • Advice
    HMS Advice (1745)
    HMS Advice was a 50-gun fourth rate ship of the line of the Royal Navy, built at Southampton to the dimensions laid down in the 1741 proposals of the 1719 Establishment, and launched on 26 February 1745.Advice served until she was broken up in 1756....
    
     50 (1745) – broken up 1756
  • Gloucester
    HMS Gloucester (1745)
    HMS Gloucester was a 50-gun fourth rate ship of the line of the Royal Navy, built at Rotherhithe to the dimensions specified in the 1741 proposals of the 1719 Establishment, and launched on 23 May 1745....
    
     50 (1745) – broken up 1764
  • Norwich
    HMS Norwich (1745)
    HMS Norwich was a 50-gun fourth rate ship of the line of the Royal Navy, built according to the 1741 proposals of the 1719 Establishment at Blackwall Yard, and launched on 4 July 1745.Norwich served until 1768, when she was sold out of the navy....
    
     50 (1745) – sold 1768
  • Ruby
    HMS Ruby (1745)
    HMS Ruby was a 50-gun fourth rate ship of the line of the Royal Navy, built at Bursledon in Hampshire to the dimensions specified in the 1741 proposals of the 1719 Establishment, and launched on 3 August 1745.Ruby was broken up in 1765....
    
     50 (1745) – broken up 1765
  • Colchester
    HMS Colchester (1746)
    HMS Colchester was a 50-gun fourth rate ship of the line of the Royal Navy, built at Southampton according to the dimensions laid down in the 1741 proposals of the 1719 Establishment, and launched on 20 September 1745...
    
     50 (1746) – broken up 1773
  • Lichfield
    HMS Lichfield (1746)
    HMS Lichfield was a 50-gun fourth rate ship of the line of the Royal Navy, built at Harwich to the dimensions laid down in the 1741 proposals of the 1719 Establishment, and launched on 26 June 1746...
    
     50 (1746) – wrecked 1758
  • Panther
    HMS Panther (1746)
    HMS Panther was a 50-gun fourth rate ship of the line of the Royal Navy, built at Plymouth Dockyard to the dimensions specified in the 1741 proposals of the 1719 Establishment, and launched on 24 June 1746....
    
     50 (1746) – broken up 1756
• Bristol class – Non-Establishment 50-gun ships
  • Bristol
    HMS Bristol (1711)
    HMS Bristol was a 50-gun fourth rate ship of the line of the Royal Navy, built at Plymouth Dockyard according to the 1706 Establishment, and launched on 8 May 1711.On 22 November 1742 Bristol was ordered to be dismantled for rebuilding...
    
     (1746) – broken up 1768
  • Rochester
    HMS Rochester (1749)
    HMS Rochester was a 50-gun fourth rate ship of the line of the Royal Navy, built at Deptford Dockyard and launched on 3 August 1749.In contrast to standard practise at the time, Rochester was not built to the Establishment of dimensions in effect at the time...
    
     (1749) – sold 1770

1745 Establishment

• First rates of 100 guns
  • Royal George
    HMS Royal George (1756)
    HMS Royal George was a 100-gun first-rate ship of the line of the Royal Navy, built at Woolwich Dockyard and launched on 18 February 1756...
    
     100 (1756) – foundered 1782
  • Britannia
    HMS Britannia (1762)
    HMS Britannia was a 100-gun first rate ship of the line of the Royal Navy. She was ordered on 25 April 1751 from Portsmouth Dockyard to the draught specified in the 1745 Establishment. Her keel was laid down on 1 July 1751 and she was launched on 19 October 1762. The cost of building and fitting...
    
     100 (1762) – renamed Princess Royal 1810, St George 1812, St Barfleur 1819, broken up 1825
• Second rates of 90 guns

None built

• Third rates of 80 guns
  • Princess Amelia
    HMS Princess Amelia (1757)
    HMS Princess Amelia was an 80-gun third rate ship of the line of the Royal Navy, built at Woolwich Dockyard to the draught specified by the 1745 Establishment, and launched on 7 March 1757....
    
     80 (1757) – lent to customs 1788, sold 1818
• Third rates of 70 guns
  • Vanguard
    HMS Vanguard (1748)
    HMS Vanguard was a 70-gun third rate ship of the line of the Royal Navy, launched on 16 April 1748. She was built by Philemon Ewer at his East Cowes yard on the Isle of Wight to the draught specified by the 1745 Establishment, at a cost of £8,009...
    
     70 (1748) – sold 1774
  • Somerset
    HMS Somerset (1748)
    HMS Somerset was a 70-gun third-rate ship of the line of the Royal Navy, built at Chatham Dockyard to the draught specified by the 1745 Establishment, and launched on 18 July 1748. She was the third vessel of the Royal Navy to bear the name. Somerset was involved in several notable battles of the...
    
     70 (1748) – wrecked 1778
  • Orford
    HMS Orford (1749)
    HMS Orford was a 70-gun third rate ship of the line of the Royal Navy, built to the draught specified by the 1745 Establishment at Woolwich Dockyard, and launched in 1749....
    
     70 (1749) – harbour service 1777, sunk as a breakwater 1783
  • Grafton
    HMS Grafton (1750)
    HMS Grafton was a 70-gun third rate ship of the line of the Royal Navy, built at Portsmouth Dockyard to the draught specified by the 1745 Establishment, and launched on 29 March 1750.Grafton served until 1767, when she was sold out of the navy....
    
     70 (1750) – sold 1767
  • Swiftsure
    HMS Swiftsure (1750)
    HMS Swiftsure was a 70-gun third rate ship of the line of the Royal Navy, built at Deptford Dockyard to the draught specified by the 1745 Establishment, and launched on 25 May 1750....
    
     70 (1750) – sold 1773
  • Northumberland
    HMS Northumberland (1750)
    HMS Northumberland was a 70-gun third rate ship of the line of the Royal Navy, built at Plymouth Dockyard to the draught specified by the 1745 Establishment, and launched on 1 December 1750....
    
     70 (1750) – renamed Leviathan storeship 1777, foundered 1779
  • Buckingham
    HMS Buckingham (1751)
    HMS Buckingham was a 70-gun third rate ship of the line of the Royal Navy, built at Deptford Dockyard to the draught specified by the 1745 Establishment, and launched on 13 April 1751....
    
     70 (1751) – renamed Grampus storeship 1771, lost 1778
• Fourth rates of 60 guns
  • St Albans
    HMS St Albans (1747)
    HMS St Albans was a 60-gun fourth rate ship of the line of the Royal Navy, built at Deptford to the draught specified by the 1745 Establishment, and launched on 23 February 1747.St Albans served until 1765, when she was sold out of the navy....
    
     60 (1747) – sold 1765
  • Anson
    HMS Anson (1747)
    HMS Anson was a 60-gun fourth rate ship of the line of the Royal Navy, built at Bursledon by Philemon Ewer to the draught specified by the 1745 Establishment, and launched on 10 October 1747....
    
     60 (1747) – sold 1773
  • Tiger
    HMS Tiger (1747)
    HMS Tiger was a 60-gun fourth rate ship of the line of the Royal Navy, built at Rotherhithe to the draught specified by the 1745 Establishment, and launched on 23 November 1747....
    
     60 (1747) – hulked 1760, sold 1765
  • Weymouth
    HMS Weymouth (1752)
    HMS Weymouth was a 60-gun fourth rate ship of the line of the Royal Navy, built at Plymouth Dockyard to the draught specified by the 1745 Establishment, and launched on 18 February 1752....
    
     60 (1752) – broken up 1772
  • York
    HMS York (1753)
    HMS York was a 60-gun fourth rate ship of the line of the Royal Navy, built at Plymouth Dockyard to the draught specified in the 1745 Establishment, and launched on 10 November 1753....
    
     60 (1753) – broken up 1772
  • Medway
    HMS Medway (1755)
    HMS Medway was a 60-gun fourth rate ship of the line of the Royal Navy, built at Deptford Dockyard to the draught specified by the 1745 Establishment, and launched on 14 February 1755....
    
     60 (1755) – receiving ship 1787, broken up 1811
• Fourth rates of 50 guns
  • Assistance
    HMS Assistance (1747)
    HMS Assistance was a 50-gun fourth rate ship of the line of the Royal Navy, built at a private yard on the River Medway to the draught specified by the 1745 Establishment, and launched on 22 December 1773....
    
     50 (1747) – sold 1773.
  • Greenwich 50 (1747) – captured by France 1757.
  • Tavistock
    HMS Tavistock (1747)
    HMS Tavistock was a 50-gun fourth rate ship of the line of the Royal Navy, built at Hull to the draught specified in the 1745 Establishment, and launched on 26 August 1747....
    
     50 (1747) – hulked 1761, broken up 1768.
  • Falmouth
    HMS Falmouth (1752)
    HMS Falmouth was a 50-gun fourth rate ship of the line of the Royal Navy, built at Woolwich Dockyard to the standard 50-gun ship draught of the 1745 Establishment, and launched on 7 December 1752. Falmouth was abandoned after a battle in 1765....
    
     50 (1752) – abandoned aground 1765.
  • Newcastle
    HMS Newcastle (1750)
    HMS Newcastle was a 50-gun fourth rate ship of the line of the Royal Navy, built at Portsmouth Dockyard to the draught specified in the 1745 Establishment, and launched on 4 December 1750.Newcastle foundered during a cyclone in 1761....
    
     50 (1750) – wrecked 1761.
  • Dartmouth 50 (-) – cancelled 1748.
  • Severn
    HMS Severn (1747)
    HMS Severn was a 50-gun fourth rate ship of the line of the Royal Navy, built at Harwich to the draught specified by the 1745 Establishment, and launched on 10 July 1747.Severn served until 1759, when she was sold out of the navy....
    
     50 (1747) – sold 1759.
  • Woolwich 50 (-) – cancelled 1748.

1745 Establishment, as amended in 1750

• Second rates of 90 guns
  • Namur
    HMS Namur (1756)
    HMS Namur was a 90-gun second rate ship of the line of the Royal Navy, built at Chatham Dockyard to the draught specified by the 1745 Establishment as amended in 1750, and launched on 3 March 1756....
    
     90 (1755) – reduced to 74 in 1805, harbour service 1807, broken up 1833
  • Union
    HMS Union (1756)
    HMS Union was a 90-gun second rate ship of the line of the Royal Navy, built at Chatham Dockyard to the draught specified by the 1745 Establishment as amended in 1750, and launched on 25 September 1756....
    
     90 (1756) – hospital ship 1799, broken up 1816
  • Neptune
    HMS Neptune (1757)
    HMS Neptune was a 90-gun second rate ship of the line of the Royal Navy, built at Portsmouth Dockyard to the draught specified by the 1745 Establishment as amended in 1750, and launched on 17 July 1757....
    
     90 (1757) – sheer hulk 1799, broken up 1816
• Third rate of 80 guns
  • Cambridge
    HMS Cambridge (1755)
    HMS Cambridge was an 80-gun third-rate ship of the line of the Royal Navy, built at Deptford Dockyard to the draught specified by the 1745 Establishment as amended in 1750, and launched on 21 October 1755.-Early career:...
    
     80 (1755) – harbour service 1793, broken up 1808
• Third rate of 70 guns
  • Chichester
    HMS Chichester (1753)
    HMS Chichester was a 70-gun third rate ship of the line of the Royal Navy, built at Portsmouth Dockyard to the standard draught for 70-gun ships as specified in the 1745 Establishment amended in 1750, and launched on 4 June 1753....
    
     70 (1753) – broken up 1803
• Fourth rates of 60 guns
  • Dunkirk
    HMS Dunkirk (1754)
    HMS Dunkirk was a 60-gun fourth rate ship of the line of the Royal Navy, built at Woolwich Dockyard to the draught specified by the 1745 Establishment as amended in 1750, and launched on 22 July 1754.-Career:...
    
     60 (1754) – harbour service 1778, sold 1792
  • Achilles
    HMS Achilles (1757)
    HMS Achilles was a 60-gun fourth rate ship of the line of the Royal Navy, built by Barnard and Turner at Harwich to the draught specified by the 1745 Establishment as amended in 1750, and launched in 1757. She was ordered in November 1755...
    
     60 (1757) – hulked 1778p76, Lyon, The Sailing Navy List
  • America
    HMS America (1757)
    HMS America was a 60-gun fourth rate ship of the line of the Royal Navy, built by Wells and Stanton at Rotherhithe and launched on 21 May 1757.From 1758 to 1760, America was under the command of a Captain James Kirk.She was broken up in 1771....
    
     60 (1757) – broken up 1771
  • Montagu
    HMS Montagu (1757)
    HMS Montagu was a 60-gun fourth rate ship of the line of the Royal Navy, built at Sheerness Dockyard to the standard draught for 60-gun ships as specified by the 1745 Establishment, amended in 1750, and launched on 15 September 1757....
    
     60 (1757) – sunk as a breakwater 1774
• Fourth rate of 50 guns
  • Preston
    HMS Preston (1757)
    HMS Preston was a 50-gun fourth rate ship of the line of the Royal Navy, built at Deptford Dockyard to the draught specified in the 1745 Establishment, and launched on 7 February 1757....
    
     50 (1757) – sheer hulk 1785, broken up 1815.

1745 Establishment, as amended in 1752

• Fourth rates of 60 guns
  • Pembroke
    HMS Pembroke (1757)
    HMS Pembroke was a 60-gun fourth rate ship of the line of the Royal Navy, built at Plymouth Dockyard to the draught specified in the 1745 Establishment as amended in 1752, and launched on 2 June 1757....
    
     60 (1757) – hulked 1776, broken up 1793
  • Rippon
    HMS Rippon (1758)
    HMS Rippon was a 60-gun fourth rate ship of the line of the Royal Navy, built at Woolwich Dockyard to the draught specified by the 1745 Establishment as amended in 1752, and launched on 20 January 1758....
    
     60 (1758) – harbour service 1801, broken up 1808
• Fourth rate of 50 guns
  • Chatham
    HMS Chatham (1758)
    HMS Chatham was a 50-gun fourth rate ship of the line of the Royal Navy, built at Portsmouth Dockyard to the draught specified by the 1745 Establishment as amended in 1752, and launched on 25 April 1758....
    
     50 (1758) – harbour service 1793, renamed Tilbury 1805/10, broken up 1814

1745 Establishment, as amended in 1754

• Third rates of 68 guns
• Burford Class
  • Burford
    HMS Burford (1757)
    HMS Burford was a 70-gun third rate ship of the line of the Royal Navy, built at Chatham Dockyard to the draught specified by the 1745 Establishment as amended in 1754, and launched in 1757.Burford was sold out of the navy in 1785....
    
     68 (1757) – sold 1785
  • Dorsetshire
    HMS Dorsetshire (1757)
    HMS Dorsetshire was a 70-gun third rate ship of the line of the Royal Navy, built at Chatham Dockyard to the draught specified by the 1745 Establishment, amended in 1754, and launched on 13 December 1757....
    
     68 (1757) – broken up 1775
  • Boyne
    HMS Boyne (1766)
    HMS Boyne was a 70-gun third rate ship of the line of the Royal Navy, built at Plymouth Dockyard to the draught specified in the 1745 Establishment as amended in 1754, and launched on 31 May 1766.Boyne served until 1783, when she was broken up....
    
     68 (1766) – broken up 1783

1745 Establishment, as amended in 1756

• Temple class
  Temple class ship of the line
  The Temple class ships were two 68-gun third rates designed for the Royal Navy to the lines of the Vanguard of 1748, i.e. to the outdated 1745 Establishment....
  
   copied from 1745 Establishment Vanguard
  • Temple
    HMS Temple (1758)
    HMS Temple was a 68-gun third rate ship of the line of the Royal Navy, launched on 3 November 1758 at Hull.She foundered in 1762 and was lost....
    
     68 (1758) - sank 1762
  • Conqueror
    HMS Conqueror (1758)
    HMS Conqueror was a 68-gun third rate ship of the line of the Royal Navy, launched on 24 May 1758 at Harwich.She was wrecked in 1760....
    
     68 (1758) - wrecked 1760

Captured ships, War of 1739-1748

• Princess
  HMS Princess (1740)
  HMS Princess was a 70-gun third rate ship of the line of the Royal Navy. She had briefly sailed as the Princesa for the Spanish Navy, until her capture off Cape Finisterre in 1740 during the War of the Austrian Succession....
  
   70 (1740) – ex-Spanish Princessa captured 8 April 1740, hulk 1760, sold 1784
• Vigilant 58 (1745) – ex-French Le Vigilant captured 19 May 1745, sold 1759
• Portland's Prize 50 (1746) – ex-French L'Auguste, captured 9 February 1746, sold 1749
• Mars 64 (1746) – ex-French Le Mars captured 11 October 1746, wrecked 1755
• Intrepid 64 (1747) – ex-French Le Sérieux captured 3 May 1747 at First Battle of Cape Finisterre
  First battle of Cape Finisterre (1747)
  The First Battle of Cape Finisterre saw 14 British ships of the line under Admiral George Anson attack a French 30-ship convoy commanded by Admiral de la Jonquière during the War of the Austrian Succession. The British captured 4 ships of the line, 2 frigates and 7 merchantmen, in a five-hour...
  
  , broken up 1765
• Invincible
  HMS Invincible (1747)
  The Invincible was a 74-gun French ship of the line, later a third-rate of the Royal Navy.During the early part of the 18th century British ship designers had made few significant advances in design, whereas French shipbuilding benefited from a remarkably creative period. At the time of the capture...
  
   74 (1747) – ex-French L'Invincible captured 3 May 1747 at First Battle of Cape Finisterre
  First battle of Cape Finisterre (1747)
  The First Battle of Cape Finisterre saw 14 British ships of the line under Admiral George Anson attack a French 30-ship convoy commanded by Admiral de la Jonquière during the War of the Austrian Succession. The British captured 4 ships of the line, 2 frigates and 7 merchantmen, in a five-hour...
  
  , wrecked 1758
• Isis 50 (1747) – ex-French Le Diamant 56 captured 3 May 1747 at First Battle of Cape Finisterre
  First battle of Cape Finisterre (1747)
  The First Battle of Cape Finisterre saw 14 British ships of the line under Admiral George Anson attack a French 30-ship convoy commanded by Admiral de la Jonquière during the War of the Austrian Succession. The British captured 4 ships of the line, 2 frigates and 7 merchantmen, in a five-hour...
  
  , sold 1766
• Monarch
  HMS Monarch (1747)
  HMS Monarch was a 74-gun third rate ship of the line of the Royal Navy. She had previously served in the French Navy under the name Monarque....
  
   74 (1747) – ex-French Le Monarque, captured 14 October 1747 at Second Battle of Cape Finisterre
  Second battle of Cape Finisterre (1747)
  The Second Battle of Cape Finisterre was a naval battle which took place on 25 October 1747 during the War of the Austrian Succession...
  
  , sold 1760
• Terrible
  HMS Terrible (1747)
  HMS Terrible was a 74-gun third rate ship of the line of the Royal Navy. She had previously served in the French Navy under the same name.-French career and capture:...
  
   74 (1747) – ex-French Le Terrible, captured 14 October 1747 at Second Battle of Cape Finisterre
  Second battle of Cape Finisterre (1747)
  The Second Battle of Cape Finisterre was a naval battle which took place on 25 October 1747 during the War of the Austrian Succession...
  
  , broken up 1763
• Fougueux 64 (1747) – ex-French Le Fougueux captured 14 October 1747 at Second Battle of Cape Finisterre
  Second battle of Cape Finisterre (1747)
  The Second Battle of Cape Finisterre was a naval battle which took place on 25 October 1747 during the War of the Austrian Succession...
  
  , broken up 1759
• Trident 64 (1747) – ex-French Trident captured 14 October 1747 at Second Battle of Cape Finisterre
  Second battle of Cape Finisterre (1747)
  The Second Battle of Cape Finisterre was a naval battle which took place on 25 October 1747 during the War of the Austrian Succession...
  
  , sold 1763
• Magnanime 74 (1748) – ex-French Le Magnanime captured 31 January 1748, broken up 1775

Other captured ships

• Rubis – ex-French Rubis 52, captured 3 May 1747 at First Battle of Cape Finisterre
  First battle of Cape Finisterre (1747)
  The First Battle of Cape Finisterre saw 14 British ships of the line under Admiral George Anson attack a French 30-ship convoy commanded by Admiral de la Jonquière during the War of the Austrian Succession. The British captured 4 ships of the line, 2 frigates and 7 merchantmen, in a five-hour...
  
  , was added to the Royal Navy as a sixth rate of 26 guns.
• Jason 50 – ex-French Jason, captured 3 May 1747 at First Battle of Cape Finisterre
  First battle of Cape Finisterre (1747)
  The First Battle of Cape Finisterre saw 14 British ships of the line under Admiral George Anson attack a French 30-ship convoy commanded by Admiral de la Jonquière during the War of the Austrian Succession. The British captured 4 ships of the line, 2 frigates and 7 merchantmen, in a five-hour...
  
  , was added to the Royal Navy as a fifth rate of 44 guns.
• Severn – ex-French Severn 50/56 (originally the British Severn, taken by the French in 1746), was re-captured 14 October 1747 at the Second Battle of Cape Finisterre, but was not restored to British service.
• The ex-French Neptune 70/74, captured 14 October 1747 at Second Battle of Cape Finisterre
  Second battle of Cape Finisterre (1747)
  The Second Battle of Cape Finisterre was a naval battle which took place on 25 October 1747 during the War of the Austrian Succession...
  
  , was not added to the British Navy.
• Glory
  HMS Glory
  Ten ships of the Royal Navy have been named HMS Glory, or the French variant HMS Gloire: was a 44-gun fifth rate, formerly the French 44-gun ship La Gloire, captured from the French in 1747, and was sold to be broken up in 1763. was a 32-gun fifth rate launched in 1763. She was renamed HMS Apollo...
  
   – ex-Spanish Glorioso captured 1747, was not added to the British Navy.

Other ships

Two ships of 74 guns were ordered in January 1748 from Chatham and Woolwich Dockyards, but with the end of the War of Austrian Succession both were cancelled in 1748.

List of ships-of-the-line of the Royal Navy (1755–1785)

By or soon after the appointment of Baron George Anson as First Lord of the Admiralty in 1751, the system of establishments that covered the design of British warships was abandoned, and with the appointment of Thomas Slade and William Bately as joint holders of the post of Surveyor of the Navy in 1755, new principles governed the composition of the battle fleet. The Navy Board stopped building any further three-decker 80-gun ships. Production of the 70-gun and 60-gun ships also ceased. Instead, new 74-gun and 64-gun ships replaced these classes. Although 50-gun and 44-gun two-deckers continued to be built for cruising duties, the Navy no longer considered the 50-gun ships powerful enough to serve as ships of the line.

Number of main guns follows name (see rating system of the Royal Navy

Rating system of the Royal Navy

The rating system of the Royal Navy and its predecessors was used by the British 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...

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First rate of 100 guns (three-deckers)

• Victory class (Slade)
  • Victory
    HMS Victory
    HMS Victory is a 104-gun first-rate ship of the line of the Royal Navy, laid down in 1759 and launched in 1765. She is most famous as Lord Nelson's flagship at the Battle of Trafalgar in 1805....
    
     100 (1765) – “great repair” 1801-03, flagship at the Battle of Trafalgar
    Battle of Trafalgar
    The Battle of Trafalgar was a sea battle fought between the British Royal Navy and the combined fleets of the French Navy and Spanish Navy, during the War of the Third Coalition of the Napoleonic Wars ....
    
     1805, 1805-08 modernised and re-rated as 98-gun second rate, hulked at Portsmouth 1824, dry-docked 1922, converted during the 1920s to her 1805 appearance, preserved in commission at Portsmouth as the only remaining ship of the line
• Royal Sovereign class (Williams)
  • Royal Sovereign
    HMS Royal Sovereign (1786)
    HMS Royal Sovereign was a 100-gun first rate ship of the line of the Royal Navy, which served as the flagship of Admiral Collingwood at the Battle of Trafalgar. She was the third of seven Royal Navy ships to bear the name. Designed by Sir Edward Hunt, she was launched at Plymouth Dockyard on 11...
    
     100 (1786) – broken up 1841
• Umpire class (Hunt)
  • Royal George
    HMS Royal George (1788)
    HMS Royal George was a 100-gun first rate ship of the line of the Royal Navy, launched from Chatham Dockyard on 16 September 1788. She was designed by Sir Edward Hunt, and was the only other ship built to her draught...
    
     100 (1788) – broken up 1822
  • Queen Charlotte
    HMS Queen Charlotte (1790)
    HMS Queen Charlotte was a 100-gun first-rate ship of the line of the Royal Navy, launched on 15 April 1790 at Chatham. She was built to the draught of designed by Sir Edward Hunt, though with a modified armament....
    
     100 (1790) – an accidental fire in 1800 destroyed her and killed 673 of her crew of 859
  • Queen Charlotte
    HMS Queen Charlotte (1810)
    HMS Queen Charlotte was a 104-gun first-rate ship of the line of the Royal Navy, launched on 17 July 1810 at Deptford. She was built to the lines of Sir Edward Hunt's as a replacement for the first HMS Queen Charlotte which had been lost by accident on 17 March 1800.She was Lord Exmouth's flagship...
    
     104 (1810) – renamed Excellent 1860, broken up 1892

Second rates of 90 guns [later 98 guns] (three-deckers)

• Sandwich class
  Sandwich class ship of the line
  The Sandwich class ships of the line were a class of three 90-gun second rates, designed for the Royal Navy by Sir Thomas Slade.-Ships:...
  
   (Slade)
  • Sandwich
    HMS Sandwich (1759)
    HMS Sandwich was a 90-gun second rate ship of the line of the Royal Navy, launched on 14 April 1759 at Chatham.Sandwich participated in the Battle of Cape St Vincent in 1780, where she served as Admiral Rodney's flagship....
    
     90 (1759) – floating battery 1780, harbour service 1790, broken up 1810
  • Blenheim
    HMS Blenheim (1761)
    HMS Blenheim was a 90-gun second rate ship of the line of the Royal Navy, launched on 5 July 1761 at Woolwich.-Service:Under the command of John Bazely, she took part in the Battle of Hyères Islands in 1795. Blenheim then fought at Battle of Cape St Vincent in 1797. By 1801, she had become so badly...
    
     90 (1761) – reduced to 74 in 1800; foundered, presumably off Madagascar, with all hands 1807
  • Ocean
    HMS Ocean (1761)
    HMS Ocean was a 90-gun second rate ship of the line of the Royal Navy, launched on 21 April 1761 at Chatham.She was sold out of the service in 1793....
    
     90 (1761) – Modified version of the Sandwich class, sold 1793
• London class
  London class ship of the line
  The London class ships of the line were a class of four second rates, designed for the Royal Navy by Sir Thomas Slade.-Design:The first ship of the class, , was a 90-gun ship. When the second batch of three ships was ordered several years later, they were specified as being 98-gun ships...
  
   (Slade)
  • London
    HMS London (1766)
    HMS London was a 90-gun second-rate ship of the line of the Royal Navy, launched on 24 May 1766 at Chatham Dockyard.London was originally launched as a 90-gun ship, as was standard for second rates at the time, but was later increased to 98-guns when she had eight 12 pounders installed on her...
    
     90 (1766) – broken up 1811
• Barfleur class
  Barfleur class ship of the line
  The Barfleur-class ships of the line were a class of four 90-gun second rates, designed for the Royal Navy by Sir Thomas Slade.-Design:The design for the Barfleur class was based upon HMS Royal William.-Ships:...
  
   (Slade, based on Royal William
  HMS Prince (1670)
  HMS Prince was a 100-gun first rate ship of the line of the Royal Navy, built by Phineas Pett II at Deptford Dockyard and launched in 1670. A contemporary shipyard model and a drawing by Willem van de Velde the Elder give a good impression how she looked...
  
  )
  • Barfleur
    HMS Barfleur (1768)
    HMS Barfleur was a 90-gun second-rate ship of the line of the Royal Navy, designed by Sir Thomas Slade on the lines of the 100-gun ship Royal William, and launched at Chatham Dockyard on 30 July 1768, at a cost of £49,222. In about 1780, she had another eight guns added to her quarterdeck, making...
    
     90 (1768) – broken up 1819
  • Prince George
    HMS Prince George (1772)
    HMS Prince George was a 90-gun second rate ship of the line of the Royal Navy, launched on 31 August 1772 at Chatham. During her career, she was upgraded to a 98-gun ship, through the addition of eight 12 pdr guns to her quarterdeck....
    
     90 (1772) – broken up 1839
  • Princess Royal
    HMS Princess Royal (1773)
    HMS Princess Royal was a 90-gun second rate ship of the line of the Royal Navy, launched on 18 October 1773 at Portsmouth. During her career she was upgraded to a 98-gun ship, by the addition of eight 12 pdr guns to her quarterdeck....
    
     90 (1773) – broken up 1807
  • Formidable
    HMS Formidable (1777)
    HMS Formidable was a 90-gun second rate ship of the line of the Royal Navy, launched on 20 August 1777 at Chatham. During her career, her armament was increased to 98-guns....
    
     90/98 (1777) – broken up 1813
• Queen class (Bately)
  • Queen
    HMS Queen (1769)
    HMS Queen was a three-deck 90-gun second-rate ship of the line of the Royal Navy, launched on 18 September 1769 at Woolwich Dockyard. She was designed by William Bateley, and was the only ship built to her draught...
    
     90 (1769) – reduced to 74 in 1811, broken up 1821
• Duke class
  Duke class ship of the line
  The Duke-class ships of the line were a class of four 98-gun second rates, designed for the Royal Navy by Sir John Williams.-Ships:The Duke-class ships of the line were a class of four 98-gun second rates, designed for the Royal Navy by Sir John Williams.-Ships:The Duke-class ships of the line were...
  
   (Williams)
  • Duke
    HMS Duke (1777)
    HMS Duke was a 98-gun second rate ship of the line of the Royal Navy, launched on 18 October 1777 at Plymouth.Duke was employed on harbour service from 1799, and was broken up in 1843....
    
     98 (1777) – broken up 1843
  • St George
    HMS St George (1785)
    HMS St George was a 98-gun second rate ship of the line of the Royal Navy, launched on 14 October 1785 at Portsmouth. In 1793 she captured one of the richest prizes ever. She then participated in the Naval Battle of Hyères Islands in 1795 and took part in the Battle of Copenhagen in 1801...
    
     98 (1785) – wrecked 1811 off the coast of Jutland
    Jutland
    Jutland , historically also called Cimbria, is the name of the peninsula that juts out in Northern Europe toward the rest of Scandinavia, forming the mainland part of Denmark. It has the North Sea to its west, Kattegat and Skagerrak to its north, the Baltic Sea to its east, and the Danish–German...
    
     with the loss of almost her entire crew
  • Glory
    HMS Glory (1788)
    HMS Glory was a 98-gun second rate ship of the line of the Royal Navy, launched on 5 July 1788 at Plymouth.Glory served as the flagship of Rear-Admiral Sir Charles Stirling at the Battle of Cape Finisterre in 1805....
    
     98 (1788) – broken up 1825
  • Atlas
    HMS Atlas (1782)
    HMS Atlas was a 98-gun second-rate ship of the line of the Royal Navy, launched on 13 February 1782. She was a built at Chatham Dockyard by Nicholas Phillips.In 1802 she was reduced to a 74-gun ship....
    
     98 (1782) – broken up 1821
• Revived London class
  London class ship of the line
  The London class ships of the line were a class of four second rates, designed for the Royal Navy by Sir Thomas Slade.-Design:The first ship of the class, , was a 90-gun ship. When the second batch of three ships was ordered several years later, they were specified as being 98-gun ships...
  
   (Slade)
  • Prince
    HMS Prince (1788)
    HMS Prince was a 98-gun second rate ship of the line of the Royal Navy, launched on 4 July 1788 at Woolwich. She fought at the Battle of Trafalgar.-Life:...
    
     98 (1788) – broken up 1837
  • Impregnable
    HMS Impregnable (1786)
    HMS Impregnable was a Royal Navy 98-gun second rate. This ship of the line was launched on 15 April 1786 at Deptford Dockyard. She was wrecked in 1799 off Spithead.-Service:...
    
     98 (1786) – wrecked 1799, with no loss of life, on the Chichester Shoals
  • Windsor Castle
    HMS Windsor Castle (1790)
    HMS Windsor Castle was a 98-gun second rate ship of the line of the Royal Navy, launched on 3 May 1790 at Deptford Dockyard.-Dardanelles:Windsor Castle was part of Robert Calder's fleet at the Battle of Cape Finisterre in 1805...
    
     98 (1790) – broken up 1839
• Boyne
  Boyne class ship of the line (1790)
  The Boyne-class ships of the line were a class of two 98-gun second rates, ordered in 1783 and designed for the Royal Navy by Sir Edward Hunt.-Ships:...
  
   class (Hunt)
  • Boyne
    HMS Boyne (1790)
    HMS Boyne was a 98-gun Royal Navy second-rate ship of the line launched on 27 June 1790 at Woolwich. She was the flagship of Vice Admiral John Jervis in 1794.-Fate:...
    
     98 (1790) – caught fire by accident and blew up at Spithead 1795
  • Prince of Wales
    HMS Prince of Wales (1794)
    HMS Prince of Wales was a 98-gun second rate ship of the line of the Royal Navy, launched on 28 June 1794 at Portsmouth.She was present at the Battle of Groix in 1795, and served as the flagship of Admiral Robert Calder at the Battle of Cape Finisterre in 1805. Prince of Wales was not present at...
    
     98 (1794) – broken up 1822.

Third rates of 80 guns (two-deckers)

• Caesar class (Hunt)
  • Caesar
    HMS Caesar (1793)
    HMS Caesar, also Cæsar, was an 80-gun third rate ship of the line of the Royal Navy, launched on 16 November 1793 at Plymouth. She was designed by Sir Edward Hunt, and was the only ship built to her draught.-Battle of Algeciras Bay:...
    
     80 (1793) – 1814 hulked – used as army depot at Portsmouth, broken up 1821

Third rates of 74 guns (two-deckers)

• Dublin class
  Dublin class ship of the line
  The Dublin class ships of the line were a class of seven 74-gun Third rates, designed for the Royal Navy by Sir Thomas Slade.-Design:The Dublin class ships were the first 74-gun ships to be designed for the Royal Navy, and marked the beginning of a more dynamic era of naval design than that in the...
  
   (Slade)
  • Dublin
    HMS Dublin (1757)
    HMS Dublin was a 74-gun third rate ship of the line of the Royal Navy, launched on 6 May 1757 at Deptford.She was broken up in 1784....
    
     74 (1757) – the first British "74". Broken up 1784
  • Norfolk
    HMS Norfolk (1757)
    HMS Norfolk was a 74-gun third-rate ship of the line of the Royal Navy, and the second ship to bear the name. She was launched on 8 December 1757 at Deptford....
    
     74 (1757) – broken up 1774
  • Lenox
    HMS Lenox (1758)
    HMS Lenox was a 74-gun third rate ship of the line of the Royal Navy, launched on 25 February 1758 at Chatham Dockyard.She was sunk as a breakwater in 1784....
    
     74 (1758) – scuttled 1784
  • Mars
    HMS Mars (1759)
    HMS Mars was a 74-gun third rate ship of the line of the Royal Navy, launched on 15 March 1759 at Woolwich Dockyard.Mars took part in the Battle of Quiberon Bay on 20 November 1759....
    
     74 (1759) – sold 1784
  • Shrewsbury
    HMS Shrewsbury (1758)
    HMS Shrewsbury was a 74-gun third rate ship of the line of the Royal Navy, launched on 23 February 1758 at Deptford.In 1783, she was condemned and scuttled....
    
     74 (1758) – condemned 1783
  • Warspite
    HMS Warspite (1758)
    HMS Warspite was a 74-gun third rate ship of the line of the Royal Navy, launched on 8 April 1758 at Deptford....
    
     74 (1758) – broken up 1802
  • Resolution
    HMS Resolution (1758)
    HMS Resolution was a 74-gun third rate ship of the line of the Royal Navy, launched on 14 December 1758 at Northam.On 20 November the following year, Resolution took part in the decisive Battle of Quiberon Bay captained by Henry Speke. Just before 4pm she took the surrender of the French ship...
    
     74 (1758) – wrecked 1759
• Fame class (Bately)
  • Fame
    HMS Fame (1759)
    HMS Fame was a 74-gun third rate ship of the line of the Royal Navy, launched at Deptford on 1 January 1759. She was designed by William Bateley, and was the only ship ever built to her draught....
    
     74 (1759) – renamed Guilford c. 1799, sold 1814
• Hero class (Slade)
  • Hero
    HMS Hero (1759)
    HMS Hero was a 74-gun third rate ship of the line of the Royal Navy, designed by Sir Thomas Slade and launched on 28 March 1759 from Plymouth Dockyard. She was the only ship built to her draught....
    
     74 (1759) – broken up 1810
• Hercules class
  Hercules class ship of the line
  The Hercules class ships of the line were a class of two 74-gun third rates, designed for the Royal Navy by Sir Thomas Slade.-Design:The Hercules class ships were a development on Slade's previous two designs: the , and the subsequent one-off ....
  
   (Slade) – modified Hero class
  • Hercules
    HMS Hercules (1759)
    HMS Hercules was a 74-gun third rate ship of the line of the Royal Navy, launched on 15 March 1759 at Deptford Dockyard.She was sold out of the service in 1784....
    
     74 (1759) – sold 1784
  • Thunderer
    HMS Thunderer (1760)
    HMS Thunderer was a 74-gun third rate ship of the line of the Royal Navy, launched on 19 March 1760 at Woolwich. She was involved in a single-ship action with the French Achille in 1761....
    
     74 (1760) – wrecked 1780
• Bellona class
  Bellona class ship of the line
  The Bellona-class ships of the line were a class of five 74-gun third rates, whose design for the Royal Navy by Sir Thomas Slade was approved on 31 January 1758. Three ships were ordered on 28 December 1757, with names being assigned on 1 February 1758...
  
   (Slade)
  • Bellona
    HMS Bellona (1760)
    HMS Bellona was a 74-gun Bellona-class third-rate ship of the line of the Royal Navy. Designed by Sir Thomas Slade, she was a prototype for the iconic 74-gun ships of the latter part of the 18th century...
    
     74 (1760) – broken up 1814
  • Dragon
    HMS Dragon (1760)
    HMS Dragon was a 74-gun Bellona-class third-rate ship of the line of the Royal Navy, launched on 4 March 1760 at Deptford.She was commissioned in 1760, under the command of the Hon. Augustus Hervey, as part of the Western Squadron...
    
     74 (1760) – sold 1784
  • Superb
    HMS Superb (1760)
    HMS Superb was a 74-gun Bellona-class third-rate ship of the line of the Royal Navy, launched on 27 October 1760 at Deptford Dockyard.She was wrecked in 1783....
    
     74 (1760) – wrecked 1783
  • Kent
    HMS Kent (1762)
    HMS Kent was a 74-gun third rate ship of the line of the Royal Navy, launched on 23 March 1762 at Deptford Dockyard.In 1774, a chest containing perhaps as much as 400 lb of gunpowder exploded during saluting, killing eleven and injuring dozens more, and causing the marine drummer sitting on the...
    
     74 (1762) – sold 1784
  • Defence
    HMS Defence (1763)
    HMS Defence was a 74-gun third-rate ship of the line of the Royal Navy, launched on 31 March 1763 at Plymouth Dockyard. She was one of the most famous ships of the period, taking part in several of the most important naval battles of the French Revolutionary and Napoleonic wars...
    
     74 (1763) – wrecked 1811
• Valiant class
  Valiant class ship of the line
  The Valiant-class ships of the line were a class of two 74-gun third rates of the Royal Navy.-Design:The draught for the two Valiant-class ships was a copy of the lines of the captured French ship , which had been captured during the First Battle of Cape Finisterre...
  
   – modified Dublin class
  • Valiant
    HMS Valiant (1759)
    HMS Valiant was a 74-gun third rate ship of the line of the Royal Navy, modelled on the captured French ship Invincible and launched on 10 August 1759 at Chatham Dockyard. Her construction, launch and fitting-out are the theme of the 'Wooden Walls' visitor experience at Chatham Historic Dockyard....
    
     (1759) – broken up 1826
  • Triumph
    HMS Triumph (1764)
    HMS Triumph was a 74-gun third rate ship of the line of the Royal Navy, launched on 3 March 1764 at Woolwich.In 1797, she took part in the Battle of Camperdown, and in 1805 Triumph was part of Admiral Calder's fleet at the Battle of Cape Finisterre....
    
     (1764) – broken up 1850
• Arrogant class
  Arrogant class ship of the line
  The Arrogant-class ships of the line were a class of twelve 74-gun third rate ships designed by Sir Thomas Slade for the Royal Navy.-Design:...
  
   (Slade) – modified Bellona class
  • Arrogant
    HMS Arrogant (1761)
    HMS Arrogant was a 74-gun third rate ship of the line of the Royal Navy, launched on 22 January 1761 at Harwich. She was the first of the Arrogant class ships of the line, designed by Sir Thomas Slade....
    
     74 (1761) – broken up 1810
  • Cornwall
    HMS Cornwall (1761)
    HMS Cornwall was a 74-gun third-rate ship of the line of the Royal Navy, launched on 19 May 1761 at Deptford.She served in the English Channel until the end of the Seven Years' War in 1763. After service as a guard-ship at Plymouth, she was sent to North America to serve in the American...
    
     74 (1761) – scuttled/burnt 1780
  • Edgar
    HMS Edgar (1779)
    HMS Edgar was a 74-gun third-rate ship of the line of the Royal Navy, that saw service in the American Revolutionary, French Revolutionary and Napoleonic Wars...
    
     74 (1779) – broken up 1835
  • Goliath
    HMS Goliath (1781)
    HMS Goliath was a 74-gun third rate ship of the line in the Royal Navy. She was launched on 19 October 1781 at Deptford Dockyard. She was present at the Battle of Cape St Vincent, Battle of the Nile, and Battle of Copenhagen. She was broken up in 1815....
    
     74 (1781) – razéed to 58 guns 1813, broken up 1815
  • Zealous
    HMS Zealous (1785)
    HMS Zealous was a 74-gun third rate ship of the line of the Royal Navy, built by Barnard of Deptford and launched on 25 June 1785.She served in a number of battles of the French Revolutionary Wars and the Napoleonic Wars, notably the Battle of the Nile, where she engaged the French ship Guerrier,...
    
     74 (1785) – broken up 1816
  • Audacious
    HMS Audacious (1785)
    HMS Audacious was a 74-gun third rate ship of the line of the Royal Navy, launched on 23 July 1785 at Rotherhithe. She was the first ship to bear the name....
    
     74 (1785) – broken up 1815
  • Elephant
    HMS Elephant (1786)
    HMS Elephant was a 74-gun third-rate ship of the line of the Royal Navy. She was built by George Parsons in Bursledon, Hampshire, and launched on 24 August 1786....
    
     74 (1786) – razéed to 58 guns 1818, broken up 1830
  • Bellerophon
    HMS Bellerophon (1786)
    The first HMS Bellerophon of the Royal Navy was a 74-gun third-rate ship of the line launched on 6 October 1786 at Frindsbury on the River Medway, near Chatham. She was built at the shipyard of Edward Greaves to the specifications of the Arrogant, designed by Sir Thomas Slade in 1758, the lead ship...
    
     74 (1786) – sold 1836
  • Saturn
    HMS Saturn (1786)
    HMS Saturn was a 74-gun third rate ship of the line of the Royal Navy, launched on 22 November 1786 at Northam. She was present at the Battle of Copenhagen as part of Admiral Sir Hyde Parker's reserve....
    
     74 (1786) – razéed to 58 guns 1813, broken up 1868
  • Vanguard
    HMS Vanguard (1787)
    HMS Vanguard was a 74-gun third-rate ship of the line of the Royal Navy, launched on 6 March 1787 at Deptford. She was the sixth vessel to bear the name....
    
     74 (1787) – broken up 1821
  • Excellent
    HMS Excellent (1787)
    HMS Excellent was a 74-gun third rate ship of the line of the Royal Navy, launched at Harwich on 27 November 1787. She was the captaincy of John Gell before he was appointed an Admiral.Excellent took part in the Battle of Cape St Vincent in 1797....
    
     74 (1787) – razéed to 58 guns 1820, broken up 1835
  • Illustrious
    HMS Illustrious (1789)
    HMS Illustrious was a 74-gun third rate ship of the line of the Royal Navy, launched on 7 July 1789 at Bucklers Hard. She participated in the Battle of Genoa after which she was wrecked.-Service:...
    
     74 (1789) – wrecked 1795
• Canada class
  Canada class ship of the line
  The Canada class ships of the line were a series of four 74-gun third rates designed for the Royal Navy by William Bateley. The name ship of the class was launched in 1765.-Design:...
  
   (Bately)
  • Canada
    HMS Canada (1765)
    HMS Canada was a 74-gun third rate ship of the line of the Royal Navy, launched on 17 September 1765 at Woolwich Dockyard.On 2 May 1781, Canada engaged and captured the Spanish ship Santa Leocadia, of 34 guns....
    
     74 (1765) – re-classed as 76 in 1780, hulked. Receiving ship at Chatham 1810, powder magazine 1814, convict ship 1826, broken up 1834.
  • Majestic
    HMS Majestic (1785)
    HMS Majestic was a 74-gun third rate ship of the line launched on 11 December 1785 at Deptford. She fought at the Battle of the Nile, where she engaged the French ships Tonnant and Heureux, helping to force their surrenders...
    
     74 (1785) – razéed to 58 guns 1813, broken up 1816
  • Orion
    HMS Orion (1787)
    HMS Orion was a 74-gun third rate ship of the line of the Royal Navy, launched at Deptford on 1 June 1787 to the design of the , by William Bately...
    
     74 (1787) – broken up 1814
  • Captain
    HMS Captain (1787)
    HMS Captain was a 74-gun third-rate ship of the line of the Royal Navy, launched on 26 November 1787 at Limehouse. She served during the French revolutionary and Napoleonic Wars before being placed in harbour service in 1799...
    
     74 (1787) – hulked, receiving ship at Plymouth 1809, burnt by accident and broken up 1813
• Albion class (Slade)
  • Albion
    HMS Albion (1763)
    HMS Albion was a 74-gun third-rate ship of the line of the Royal Navy. She was launched on 16 May 1763 at Deptford, being adapted from a design of the old 90-gun ship which had been built in 1730, and was the first ship to bear the name...
    
     74 (1763) – floating battery 1794, wrecked 1797
  • Grafton
    HMS Grafton (1771)
    HMS Grafton was a 74-gun third rate ship of the line of the Royal Navy, launched on 26 September 1771 at Deptford Dockyard.In 1779 she fought at the head of the British line at the Battle of Grenada, and in 1780 she was part of Rodney's fleet at the Battle of Martinique.From 1792 Grafton was on...
    
     74 (1771) – broken up 1816
  • Alcide
    HMS Alcide (1779)
    HMS Alcide was a 74-gun third rate ship of the line of the Royal Navy, launched on 30 July 1779 at Deptford Dockyard.She fought at the battles of Cape St Vincent and Martinique in 1780, and the battles of St. Kitts and the Saintes in 1782....
    
     74 (1779) – broken up 1817
  • Fortitude
    HMS Fortitude (1780)
    HMS Fortitude was a 74-gun third-rate ship of the line of the Royal Navy, built by John Randall & Co. and launched on 23 March 1780 at Rotherhithe....
    
     74 (1780) – broken up 1820
  • Irresistible
    HMS Irresistible (1782)
    HMS Irresistible was a 74-gun third rate ship of the line of the Royal Navy, launched on 6 December 1782 at Harwich.She fought at the Battle of Groix in 1795, and at the Battle of Cape St Vincent in 1797.Irresistible was broken up in 1806....
    
     74 (1782) – broken up 1806
• Ramillies class
  Ramillies class ship of the line
  The Ramillies-class ships of the line were a class of nine 74-gun third rates, designed for the Royal Navy by Sir Thomas Slade.-Design:The draught for the Ramillies-class was very similar to that of the and subsequent , with the only real differences to be found in the shape of the underwater hull...
  
   (Slade)
  • Ramillies
    HMS Ramillies (1763)
    HMS Ramillies was a 74-gun third rate ship of the line of the Royal Navy, launched on 15 April 1763 at Chatham Dockyard.In 1782 she was part of a fleet under Admiral Graves off Newfoundland. Ramillies was badly damaged in a violent storm, and was finally abandoned and burned on 21 September...
    
     74 (1763) – fire 1782
  • Monarch
    HMS Monarch (1765)
    HMS Monarch was a 74-gun third rate ship of the line of the Royal Navy, launched on 20 July 1765 at Deptford Dockyard.Monarch had a very active career, fighting in her first battle in 1778 at the First Battle of Ushant and her second under Admiral Rodney at Cape St. Vincent in 1780...
    
     74 (1765) – broken up 1813
  • Magnificent
    HMS Magnificent (1766)
    HMS Magnificent was a 74-gun third rate ship of the line of the Royal Navy, launched on 20 July 1767 at Deptford Dockyard. She was one of the built to update the Navy and replace ships lost following the Seven Years' War...
    
     74 (1766) – wrecked 1804
  • Marlborough
    HMS Marlborough (1767)
    HMS Marlborough was a 74-gun third rate ship of the line of the Royal Navy, launched on 26 August 1767 at Deptford. She was one of the Ramillies class built to update the Navy and replace ships lost following the Seven Years' War. She was first commissioned in 1771 under Captain Richard Bickerton...
    
     74 (1767) – wrecked 1800
• Suffolk class (Bately)
  • Suffolk
    HMS Suffolk (1765)
    HMS Suffolk was a 74-gun third-rate ship of the line of the Royal Navy, launched on 22 February 1765 at Rotherhithe. She was designed by William Bateley, based on the principles of his earlier , and was the only ship built to her draught....
    
     74 (1765) – broken up 1803
• Modified Ramillies class (Slade)
  • Terrible
    HMS Terrible (1762)
    HMS Terrible was a 74-gun third rate ship of the line of the Royal Navy, launched on 4 September 1762 at Harwich, England.In 1778 she fought at the First Battle of Ushant, and in 1781 Terrible was part of Sir Thomas Graves' fleet at the Battle of the Chesapeake. During the course of the battle, she...
    
     74 (1762) – fire 1781
  • Russell
    HMS Russell (1764)
    HMS Russell was a 74-gun third rate ship of the line of the Royal Navy, launched on 10 November 1764 at Deptford.In 1782, she was commanded by Captain James Saumarez at the Battle of the Saintes. In 1794 she was part of Admiral Howe's fleet at the Glorious First of June, and in the following year...
    
     74 (1764) – sold 1811
  • Invincible
    HMS Invincible (1765)
    HMS Invincible was a 74-gun third rate ship of the line of the Royal Navy, launched on 9 March 1765 at Deptford. Invincible was built during a period of peace to replace ships worn out in the recently concluded Seven Years' War...
    
     74 (1765) – wrecked 1801
  • Robust
    HMS Robust (1764)
    HMS Robust was a 74-gun third rate ship of the line of the Royal Navy, launched on 25 October 1764 at Harwich. She was the only vessel of the Royal Navy to bear the name....
    
     74 (1764) – broken up 1817
  • Prince of Wales
    HMS Prince of Wales (1765)
    HMS Prince of Wales was a 74-gun third rate ship of the line of the Royal Navy, launched on 4 June 1765 at Milford Haven. She was part of the Ramillies class of ships of the line designed by Sir Thomas Slade.She was broken up in 1783....
    
     74 (1765) – ex-Hibernia, broken up 1783
• Modified Suffolk class (Bately)
  • Ajax
    HMS Ajax (1765)
    HMS Ajax was a 74-gun third rate ship of the line of the Royal Navy, launched on 23 December 1767 at Portsmouth Dockyard. She was designed by William Bateley, and was the only ship built to her draught....
    
     74 (1765) – sold 1785
• Royal Oak class
  Royal Oak class ship of the line
  The Royal Oak-class ships of the line were a class of six 74-gun third rates, designed for the Royal Navy by Sir John Williams. The Alfred class were an enlarged version of the Royal Oak class....
  
   (Williams)
  • Royal Oak
    HMS Royal Oak (1769)
    HMS Royal Oak was a 74-gun third rate ship of the line of the Royal Navy, launched on 13 November 1769 at Plymouth.She fought at the Battle of the Chesapeake in 1781....
    
     74 (1769) – broken up 1815
  • Conqueror
    HMS Conqueror (1773)
    HMS Conqueror was a 74-gun third rate ship of the line of the Royal Navy, launched on 10 October 1773 at Plymouth.She was broken up in 1794....
    
     74 (1773) – broken up 1794
  • Bedford
    HMS Bedford (1775)
    HMS Bedford was a Royal Navy 74-gun third rate. This ship of the line was launched on 27 October 1775 at Woolwich.-Early service:In 1780, Bedford fought at the Battle of Cape St Vincent...
    
     74 (1775) – broken up 1817
  • Hector
    HMS Hector (1774)
    HMS Hector was a 74-gun third rate ship of the line of the Royal Navy, launched on 27 May 1774 at Deptford.She was converted for use as a prison ship in 1808, and was broken up in 1816....
    
     74 (1774) – broken up 1816
  • Vengeance
    HMS Vengeance (1774)
    HMS Vengeance was a 74-gun third rate ship of the line of the Royal Navy, launched on 25 June 1774 at Rotherhithe.She became a prison ship in 1808, and was broken up in 1816....
    
     74 (1774) – broken up 1816
  • Sultan
    HMS Sultan (1775)
    HMS Sultan was a 74-gun third rate ship of the line of the Royal Navy, launched on 23 December 1775 at Harwich.She was converted for use as a prison ship in 1797, and broken up in 1816....
    
     74 (1775) – broken up 1816
• Egmont class (Slade)
  • Egmont
    HMS Egmont (1768)
    HMS Egmont was a 74-gun third rate ship of the line of the Royal Navy, launched on 29 August 1768 at Deptford. She was designed by Sir Thomas Slade, and was the only ship built to her draught....
    
     74 (1768) – broken up 1799
• Elizabeth class
  Elizabeth class ship of the line
  The Elizabeth-class ships of the line were a class of eight 74-gun third rates, designed for the Royal Navy by Sir Thomas Slade....
  
   (Slade)
  • Elizabeth
    HMS Elizabeth (1769)
    HMS Elizabeth was a 74-gun third rate ship of the line of the Royal Navy, launched on 17 October 1769 at Portsmouth Dockyard.She was broken up in 1797....
    
     74 (1769) – broken up 1797
  • Resolution
    HMS Resolution (1770)
    HMS Resolution was a 74-gun third rate ship of the line of the Royal Navy, launched on 12 April 1770 at Deptford Dockyard.She participated in the Battle of Cape St Vincent in 1780, the Battle of the Chesapeake in 1781, and the Battle of the Saintes in 1782.Resolution was broken up in 1813....
    
     74 (1770) – broken up 1813
  • Cumberland
    HMS Cumberland (1774)
    HMS Cumberland was a 74-gun third rate ship of the line of the Royal Navy, launched on 29 March 1774 at Deptford Dockyard.She participated in the Battle of Cape St Vincent in 1780, and in the Battle of Cuddalore in 1783....
    
     74 (1774) – broken up 1804
  • Berwick
    HMS Berwick (1775)
    HMS Berwick was a 74-gun Elizabeth-class third rate of the Royal Navy, launched at Portsmouth Dockyard on 18 April 1775, to a design by Sir Thomas Slade. She fought the French at the Battle of Ushant and the Dutch at the Battle of Dogger Bank...
    
     74 (1775) – captured by France 1795, recaptured and wrecked, 1805
  • Bombay Castle
    HMS Bombay Castle (1782)
    HMS Bombay Castle was a 74-gun third rate ship of the line of the Royal Navy, launched on 14 June 1782 at Blackwall Yard.She was wrecked in 1796....
    
     74 (1782) – wrecked 1796
  • Powerful
    HMS Powerful (1783)
    HMS Powerful was a 74-gun third rate ship of the line of the Royal Navy, launched on 3 April 1783 at Blackwall Yard, London.In 1805 the ship arrived too late to take part in the Battle of Trafalgar but was then detached to reinforce the East India squadron. On 13th June 1806 she captured the French...
    
     74 (1783) – broken up 1812
  • Defiance
    HMS Defiance (1783)
    HMS Defiance was a 74-gun third rate ship of the line of the Royal Navy, built by Randall and Co., at Rotherhithe on the River Thames, and launched on 10 December 1783.-History:...
    
     74 (1783) – broken up 1817
  • Swiftsure
    HMS Swiftsure (1787)
    HMS Swiftsure was a 74-gun third rate ship of the line of the Royal Navy. She spent most of her career serving with the British, except for a brief period when she was captured by the French during the Napoleonic Wars...
    
     74 (1787) – captured by France 1801, same name, recaptured at the Battle of Trafalgar
    Battle of Trafalgar
    The Battle of Trafalgar was a sea battle fought between the British Royal Navy and the combined fleets of the French Navy and Spanish Navy, during the War of the Third Coalition of the Napoleonic Wars ....
    
    , 1805, renamed Irresistible 1805, broken up 1816
• Culloden class
  Culloden class ship of the line
  The Culloden-class ships of the line were a class of eight 74-gun third rates, designed for the Royal Navy by Sir Thomas Slade. The Cullodens were the last class of 74 Slade designed before his death in 1771....
  
   (Slade)
  • Culloden
    HMS Culloden (1776)
    HMS Culloden was a 74-gun third-rate ship of the line of the Royal Navy, built at Deptford Dockyard, England, and launched on 18 May 1776...
    
     74 (1776) – wrecked 1781
  • Thunderer
    HMS Thunderer (1783)
    HMS Thunderer was a 74-gun third rate ship of the line of the Royal Navy, built at the Wells brother's shipyard in Rotherhithe and launched on 13 November 1783...
    
     74 (1783) – broken up 1814
  • Venerable
    HMS Venerable (1784)
    HMS Venerable was a 74-gun third rate ship of the line of the Royal Navy, launched on 19 April 1784 at Blackwall Yard.In 1797, Venerable served as Admiral Duncan's flagship at the Battle of Camperdown....
    
     74 (1784) – wrecked 1804
  • Victorious
    HMS Victorious (1785)
    HMS Victorious was a 74-gun third rate ship of the line of the Royal Navy, launched at Blackwall Yard, London on 27 April 1785. She was the first ship of the Royal Navy to bear the name....
    
     74 (1785) – broken up 1803
  • Ramillies
    HMS Ramillies (1785)
    HMS Ramillies was a 74-gun third rate ship of the line of the Royal Navy, launched on 12 July 1785 at Rotherhithe.In 1801, she was part of Admiral Sir Hyde Parker's reserve squadron at the Battle of Copenhagen, and so did not take an active part in the battle.In August 1812, Sir Thomas Masterman...
    
     74 (1785) – broken up 1850
  • Terrible
    HMS Terrible (1785)
    HMS Terrible was a 74-gun third rate ship of the line of the Royal Navy, launched on 28 March 1785 at Rotherhithe.She became a receiving ship in 1823, and was broken up in 1836....
    
     74 (1785) – broken up 1836
  • Hannibal 74 (1786) – captured by France 1801
  • Theseus
    HMS Theseus (1786)
    HMS Theseus was a 74-gun third-rate ship of the line of the Royal Navy.One of the eight Culloden class ships designed by Thomas Slade, she was built at Perry, Blackwall Yard, London and launched on 25 September 1786.-Service:...
    
     74 (1786) – broken up 1814
• Alfred class
  Alfred class ship of the line
  The Alfred-class ships of the line were a class of four 74-gun third rates for the Royal Navy by Sir John Williams. They were an enlarged version of the Royal Oak class.-Ships:...
  
   (Williams)
  • Alfred
    HMS Alfred (1778)
    HMS Alfred was a 74-gun third rate ship of the line of the Royal Navy, launched on 22 October 1778 at Chatham.She fought at the Battle of Cape St Vincent in 1780.Alfred was broken up in 1814....
    
     74 (1778) – broken up 1814
  • Alexander
    HMS Alexander (1778)
    HMS Alexander was a Royal Navy 74-gun third-rate. This ship of the line was launched at Deptford on 8 October 1778. During her career she was captured by the French, and later recaptured by the British. She fought at the Nile in 1798, and was broken up in 1819...
    
     74 (1778) – broken up 1819
  • Warrior
    HMS Warrior (1781)
    HMS Warrior was a 74-gun third rate ship of the line of the Royal Navy, launched on 18 October 1781 at Portsmouth.A year after her launch she took part in the Battle of the Saintes. In 1801, she was part of Admiral Sir Hyde Parker's reserve squadron at the Battle of Copenhagen, and so did not...
    
     74 (1781) – broken up 1857
  • Montagu
    HMS Montagu (1779)
    HMS Montagu, sometimes spelled Montague, was a 74-gun third rate ship of the line of the Royal Navy, launched on 28 August 1779 at Chatham Dockyard....
    
     74 (1779) – broken up 1818
• Ganges class
  Ganges class ship of the line
  The Ganges-class ships of the line were a class of six 74-gun third rates, designed for the Royal Navy by Sir Edward Hunt.-Ships:The Ganges-class ships of the line were a class of six 74-gun third rates, designed for the Royal Navy by Sir Edward Hunt.-Ships:The Ganges-class ships of the line were a...
  
   (Hunt), also known as Culloden class
  • Ganges
    HMS Ganges (1782)
    HMS Ganges was a 74-gun third rate ship of the line of the Royal Navy, launched on 30 March 1782 at Rotherhithe. She was the first ship of the Navy to bear the name. Her first captain was Charles Fielding...
    
     74 (1782) – broken up 1816
  • Culloden
    HMS Culloden (1783)
    HMS Culloden was a 74-gun third rate ship of the line of the Royal Navy, launched on 16 June 1783 at Rotherhithe. She took part in some of the most famous battles of the French Revolutionary Wars and the Napoleonic Wars....
    
     74 (1783) – broken up 1813
  • Tremendous 74 (1784) – sold 1897
  • Invincible
    HMS Invincible (1808)
    HMS Invincible was a 74-gun third rate ship of the line of the Royal Navy, launched on 15 March 1808 at Woolwich.She was employed as a coal hulk from 1857, and was broken up in 1861....
    
     74 (1808) – broken up 1861
  • Minden  74 (1810) – sold 1861
  • Minotaur
    HMS Minotaur (1816)
    HMS Minotaur was a 74-gun third rate ship of the line of the Royal Navy, launched on 15 April 1816 at Chatham Dockyard.She was placed on harbour service in 1842, and was broken up in 1869....
    
     74 (1816) – renamed Hermes
• Carnatic class
  Courageux class ship of the line
  The Courageux-class ships of the line were a class of six 74-gun third rates of the Royal Navy. Their design was a direct copy of the French ship Courageux, captured in 1761 by . This class of ship is sometimes referred to as the Leviathan-class. A further two ships of the class were built to a...
  
   built to the lines of the French Courageux (capture of 1761)
  • Leviathan
    HMS Leviathan (1790)
    HMS Leviathan was a 74-gun third-rate ship of the line of the Royal Navy, launched on 9 October 1790. At the Battle of Trafalgar under Henry William Bayntun, she was near the front of the windward column led by Admiral Lord Nelson aboard his flagship, , and captured the Spanish ship San Augustin.In...
    
     74 (1790) – hulked 1816
  • Carnatic
    HMS Carnatic (1783)
    HMS Carnatic was a 74-gun third rate ship of the line of the Royal Navy, launched on 21 January 1783 at Deptford Wharf.On 17 May 1815, she was renamed HMS Captain. Captain was broken up in 1825....
    
     74 (1783) – hulked 1805
  • Colossus
    HMS Colossus (1787)
    HMS Colossus was a 74-gun third-rate ship of the line of the Royal Navy. She was launched at Gravesend on 4 April 1787 and lost on 10 December 1798.-Early history:...
    
     74 (1787) – wrecked 1798
  • Minotaur
    HMS Minotaur (1793)
    HMS Minotaur was a 74-gun third-rate ship of the line of the Royal Navy, launched on 6 November 1793 at Woolwich. She was named after the mythological bull-headed monster of Crete.-Career:...
    
     74 (1793) – wrecked 1810

Third rates of 64 guns (two-deckers)

• Asia class (Slade)
  • Asia
    HMS Asia (1764)
    HMS Asia was a 64-gun third-rate ship of the line of the Royal Navy, launched on 3 March 1764 at Portsmouth Dockyard. She participated in the American Revolutionary War and the capture of Martinique in 1794....
    
     64 (1764) – broken up 1804
• Essex class
  Essex class ship of the line
  The Essex-class ships of the line were a class of two 64-gun third rates, designed for the Royal Navy by Sir Thomas Slade.-Ships:The Essex-class ships of the line were a class of two 64-gun third rates, designed for the Royal Navy by Sir Thomas Slade.-Ships:The Essex-class ships of the line were a...
  
   (Slade) – modified Asia class
  • Essex
    HMS Essex (1760)
    HMS Essex was a 64-gun third rate ship of the line of the Royal Navy, launched on 28 August 1760 at Rotherhithe.She was on harbour service from 1777, and was sold out of the service in 1799....
    
     64 (1760) – sold 1779/99
  • Africa
    HMS Africa (1761)
    HMS Africa was a 64-gun third rate ship of the line of the Royal Navy, launched on 31 January 1761 at Blackwall Yard, London.She was sold out of the service in 1774....
    
     64 (1761) – sold 1774
• St Albans class
  St Albans class ship of the line
  The St Albans-class ships of the line were a class of three 64-gun third rates, designed for the Royal Navy by Sir Thomas Slade.-Design:Slade based the St Albans draught on that of his earlier 74-gun .-Ships:...
  
   (Slade)
  • St Albans
    HMS St Albans (1764)
    HMS St Albans was a 64-gun third rate ship of the line of the Royal Navy, launched on 12 September 1764 at Blackwall Yard, London.She served in the American War of Independence from 1777 and was part of the fleet that captured St Lucia and won victories at Battle of St. Kitts and The Saintes...
    
     64 (1764) – broken up 1814
  • Augusta
    HMS Augusta (1763)
    HMS Augusta was a 64-gun third rate ship of the line of the Royal Navy, launched on 24 October 1763 at Rotherhithe.She was accidentally destroyed by fire on 22 October 1777 during the Battle of Red Bank....
    
     64 (1763) – burnt 1777
  • Director
    HMS Director (1784)
    HMS Director was a 64-gun third rate ship of the line of the Royal Navy, launched on 9 March 1784 at Gravesend. She was laid down speculatively in the November of 1779, and ordered by the Navy the following year....
    
     64 (1784) – broken up 1801
• Exeter class
  Exeter class ship of the line
  The Exeter-class ships of the line were a class of four 64-gun third rates, designed for the Royal Navy by William Bateley.-Ships:The Exeter-class ships of the line were a class of four 64-gun third rates, designed for the Royal Navy by William Bateley.-Ships:The Exeter-class ships of the line were...
  
   (Bately)
  • Exeter
    HMS Exeter (1763)
    HMS Exeter was a 64-gun third rate ship of the line of the Royal Navy, launched on 26 July 1763 at Chatham Dockyard.In 1782, Exeter was involved in the battles of Sadras, Providien, Negapatam and Trincomalee, and the Battle of Cuddalore in 1783....
    
     64 (1763) – burnt 1784
  • Europa
    HMS Europa (1765)
    HMS Europa was a 64-gun third rate ship of the line of the Royal Navy, launched on 21 April 1765 at Lepe, Hampshire. She was renamed HMS Europe in 1778, and spent the rest of her career under this name....
    
     64 (1765) – broken up 1814
  • Trident
    HMS Trident (1768)
    HMS Trident was a 64-gun third rate ship of the line of the Royal Navy, launched on 20 April 1768 at Portsmouth.Trident was sold out of the navy in 1816....
    
     64 (1768) – sold 1816
  • Prudent
    HMS Prudent (1768)
    HMS Prudent was a 64-gun third rate ship of the line of the Royal Navy, launched on 28 September 1768 at Woolwich.She is listed as being on harbour service in 1779, though she was back in regular service later in the American Revolutionary War as in 1782 she participated in the Battle of St....
    
     64 (1768) – sold 1814
• Ardent class
  Ardent class ship of the line
  The Ardent-class ships of the line were a class of seven 64-gun third rates, designed for the Royal Navy by Sir Thomas Slade.-Design:Slade based the design of the Ardent-class on the captured French ship .-Ships:...
  
   (Slade)
  • Ardent
    HMS Ardent (1764)
    HMS Ardent was a 64-gun third-rate ship of the line of the Royal Navy. She was built by contract by Hugh Blaydes at Hull according to the plans of Sir Thomas Slade, and launched on 13 August 1764 as the first ship of the...
    
     64 (1764) – captured 1779, recaptured 1782, sold 1784
  • Raisonnable
    HMS Raisonnable (1768)
    HMS Raisonnable was a 64-gun third rate ship of the line of the Royal Navy, named after the ship of the same name captured from the French in 1758. She was built at Chatham Dockyard, launched on 10 December 1768 and commissioned on 17 November 1770 under the command of Captain Maurice Suckling,...
    
     64 (1768) – broken up 1815
  • Agamemnon
    HMS Agamemnon (1781)
    HMS Agamemnon was a 64-gun third-rate ship of the line of the Royal Navy. She saw service in the American Revolutionary, French Revolutionary and Napoleonic Wars, and fought in many of the major naval battles of those conflicts...
    
     64 (1781) – wrecked 1809
  • Belliqueux
    HMS Belliqueux (1780)
    HMS Belliqueux was a 64-gun third rate ship of the line of the Royal Navy, launched on 5 June 1780 at Blackwall Yard, London. She was named after the French ship captured in 1758....
    
     64 (1781) – broken up 1816
  • Stately
    HMS Stately (1784)
    HMS Stately was a 64-gun third-rate ship of the line of the Royal Navy, launched on 27 December 1784 at Northam.-Operational life:She was converted for use a troopship in 1799, but was reverted to a fully armed warship once war resumed after the end of the Treaty of Amiens.-Battle of Zealand...
    
     64 (1784)
  • Nassau
    HMS Nassau (1785)
    HMS Nassau was a 64-gun third rate ship of the line of the Royal Navy, launched on 28 September 1785 at Bristol.During the Nore Mutiny she was commanded by Captain Edward O'Bryen. She was converted for use as a troopship in 1797. Nassau was wrecked in 1799....
    
     64 (1785) - wrecked 1799
  • Indefatigable
    HMS Indefatigable (1784)
    HMS Indefatigable was one of the Ardent class 64-gun third-rate ships-of-the-line designed by Sir Thomas Slade in 1761 for the Royal Navy. She had a long career under several distinguished commanders, serving throughout the French Revolutionary Wars and the Napoleonic Wars...
    
     64 (1784) – razéed to 44-gun frigate 1794, broken up 1816
• Worcester class
  Worcester class ship of the line
  The Worcester-class ships of the line were a class of three 64-gun third rates, designed for the Royal Navy by Sir Thomas Slade.-Ships:...
  
   (Slade)
  • Worcester
    HMS Worcester (1769)
    HMS Worcester was a 64-gun third rate ship of the line of the Royal Navy, launched on 17 October 1769 at Portsmouth, and was the fourth ship to bear the name.In 1783, Worcester took part in the Battle of Cuddalore....
    
     64 (1769) – hulked at Deptford 1788, broken up 1816
  • Lion
    HMS Lion (1777)
    HMS Lion was a 64-gun third rate ship of the line of the Royal Navy, of the Worcester class, launched on 3 September 1777 at Portsmouth Dockyard....
    
     64 (1777) – sold for breaking 1837
  • Stirling Castle
    HMS Stirling Castle (1775)
    HMS Stirling Castle was a 64-gun third rate ship of the line of the Royal Navy, launched on 28 June 1775 at Chatham.She was wrecked in 1780....
    
     64 (1775) – wrecked 1780
• Intrepid class
  Intrepid class ship of the line
  The Intrepid-class ships of the line were a class of fifteen 64-gun third rates, designed for the Royal Navy by Sir John Williams. His design, approved on 18 December 1765, was slightly smaller than Sir Thomas Slade's contemporary Worcester Class design of the same year, against which it was...
  
   (Williams)
  • Intrepid
    HMS Intrepid (1770)
    HMS Intrepid was a 64-gun third rate ship of the line of the Royal Navy, launched on 4 December 1770 at Woolwich.In 1772 the Intrepid sailed to the Dutch East Indies...
    
     64 (1770) – sold for breaking 1828.
  • Monmouth
    HMS Monmouth (1772)
    HMS Monmouth was a 64-gun third rate ship of the line of the Royal Navy, launched on 18 April 1772 at Plymouth.In 1783, Monmouth took fought in the Battle of Cuddalore.She became a prison ship in 1796, and was broken up in 1818....
    
     64 (1772) – broken up 1818.
  • Defiance
    HMS Defiance (1772)
    HMS Defiance was a 64-gun third rate ship of the line of the Royal Navy, launched on 31 August 1772 at Woolwich.Defiance was wrecked in 1780....
    
     64 (1772) – sank 1780.
  • Nonsuch
    HMS Nonsuch (1774)
    HMS Nonsuch was a 64-gun third rate ship of the line of the Royal Navy, launched on 17 December 1774 at Plymouth.In July 1780 Nonsuch destroyed the corvette Hussard and on 14 July captured the 26-gun frigate Belle Poule of the Loire....
    
     64 (1774) – broken up 1802.
  • Ruby
    HMS Ruby (1776)
    HMS Ruby was a 64-gun third rate ship of the line of the Royal Navy, launched on 26 November 1776 at Woolwich.She was converted to serve as a receiving ship in 1813, and was broken up in 1821....
    
     64 (1776) – broken up 1821.
  • Vigilant
    HMS Vigilant (1774)
    HMS Vigilant was a 64-gun third rate ship of the line of the Royal Navy, launched on 6 October 1774 at Bucklers Hard.From 1799 she served as a prison ship, and was broken up in 1816....
    
     64 (1774) – broken up 1816.
  • Eagle
    HMS Eagle (1774)
    HMS Eagle was a 64-gun third rate ship of the line of the Royal Navy, launched on 2 May 1774 at Rotherhithe.On 7 September 1776, the experimental American submarine Turtle, under the guidance of Army volunteer Sergeant Ezra Lee, attacked HMS Eagle, which was moored off what is today called Liberty...
    
     64 (1774) – broken up 1812.
  • America
    HMS America (1777)
    HMS America was a 64-gun third rate ship of the line of the Royal Navy, launched on 5 August 1777 at Deptford.On 5 September 1781, she took part in the Battle of the Chesapeake, and in 1795 she was part of the British fleet at the Battle of Muizenberg....
    
     64 (1777) – broken up 1807.
  • Anson
    HMS Anson (1781)
    HMS Anson was a 64-gun third rate ship of the line of the Royal Navy, launched at Plymouth on 4 September 1781 by Georgina, Duchess of Devonshire.-History:...
    
     64 (1781) – razéed to 44-gun frigate 1794, wrecked 1807
  • Polyphemus
    HMS Polyphemus (1782)
    HMS Polyphemus, a 64-gun third-rate ship of the line of the Royal Navy, launched on 27 April 1782 at Sheerness. She was the first ship of the Royal Navy named for Polyphemus the Cyclops.-Baltic service:...
    
     64 (1782) – broken up 1827.
  • Magnanime
    HMS Magnanime (1780)
    HMS Magnanime was a 64-gun third-rate ship of the line of the Royal Navy, launched on 14 October 1780 at Deptford Dockyard. She belonged to the designed by Sir John Williams...
    
     64 (1780) – razéed to 44-gun frigate 1794, broken up 1813.
  • Sampson
    HMS Sampson (1781)
    HMS Sampson was a 64-gun third rate ship of the line of the Royal Navy, launched on 8 May 1781 at Woolwich.She was hulked in 1802, and broken up in 1832....
    
     64 (1781) – sold for breaking 1832.
  • Repulse
    HMS Repulse (1780)
    HMS Repulse was a 64-gun third rate ship of the line of the Royal Navy, launched on 28 November 1780 at East Cowes, on the Isle of Wight.-Mutiny at The Nore:...
    
     64 (1780) – wrecked 1800.
  • Diadem
    HMS Diadem (1782)
    HMS Diadem was a 64-gun third rate ship of the line of the Royal Navy, launched on 19 December 1782 at Chatham. She participated in the Battle of Cape St Vincent in 1797.In 1798 she was converted to serve as a troopship...
    
     64 (1782) – broken up 1832.
  • Standard
    HMS Standard (1782)
    HMS Standard was a 64-gun Royal Navy third-rate ship of the line, launched on 8 October 1782 at Deptford. She was the last of the 15 Intrepid class vessels, which were built to a design by John Williams.-Early career:...
    
     64 (1782) – broken up 1816.
• Inflexible class
  Inflexible class ship of the line
  The Inflexible-class ships of the line were a class of four 64-gun third rates, designed for the Royal Navy by Sir Thomas Slade. The lines of this class were based heavily on Slade's earlier 74-gun .-Ships:...
  
   (Williams)
  • Inflexible
    HMS Inflexible (1780)
    HMS Inflexible was a 64-gun third rate ship of the line of the Royal Navy, launched on 7 March 1780 at Harwich.In 1783, she fought in the Battle of Cuddalore, and in 1807 was present at the Battle of Copenhagen joining on 7 August off Helsingor .Inflexible became a storeship in 1793, and was...
    
     64 (1780) – storeship 1793-95, troopship 1800-07, hulked as floating magazine Halifax Nova Scotia 1809, broken up 1820
  • Africa
    HMS Africa (1781)
    HMS Africa was a 64-gun third-rate ship of the line of the Royal Navy, launched by Barnard at Deptford on 11 April 1781.-American War of Independence:...
    
     64 (1781) – hospital ship 1895-1805, broken up 1814
  • Dictator
    HMS Dictator (1783)
    HMS Dictator was a 64-gun third-rate ship of the line of the Royal Navy, launched on 6 January 1783 at Limehouse. She was converted into a troopship in 1798, and broken up in 1817....
    
     64 (1783) – troopship 1798-1803, floating battery 1803-05, troopship 1813, broken up 1817
  • Sceptre
    HMS Sceptre (1781)
    HMS Sceptre was a 64-gun third-rate ship of the line of the Royal Navy, launched on 8 June 1781 at Rotherhithe. Shortly after completion she was sent out to the Indian Ocean to join Vice-Admiral Sir Edward Hughes's squadron. She arrived in time for the Battle of Trincomalee in 1782...
    
     64 (1781) – wrecked at Table Bay 5 December 1799
• Crown class
  Crown class ship of the line
  The Crown-class ships of the line were a class of three 64-gun third rates, designed for the Royal Navy by Sir Edward Hunt.-Ships:The Crown-class ships of the line were a class of three 64-gun third rates, designed for the Royal Navy by Sir Edward Hunt.-Ships:The Crown-class ships of the line were...
  
   (Hunt)
  • Crown
    HMS Crown (1782)
    HMS Crown was a 64-gun third rate ship of the line of the Royal Navy, launched on 15 March 1782 at Blackwall Yard.She was converted to serve as a prison ship in 1798, and was broken up in 1816....
    
     64 (1782) – hulked 1798
  • Ardent
    HMS Ardent (1782)
    HMS Ardent was a Royal Navy 64-gun third rate. This ship of the line was launched on 21 December 1782 at Bursledon, Hampshire.In 1784 she was under the command of Captain Harry Harmood, serving as a guard ship at Portsmouth....
    
     64 (1782) – blew up 1794
  • Scipio
    HMS Scipio (1782)
    HMS Scipio was a 64-gun third rate ship of the line of the Royal Navy, launched on 22 October 1782 at Deptford. She was broken up in 1798....
    
     64 (1782) – broken up 1798
  • Veteran
    HMS Veteran (1787)
    HMS Veteran was a 64-gun third rate ship of the line of the Royal Navy, launched on 14 August 1787 at East Cowes. She was designed by Sir Edward Hunt, and was the only ship built to her draught....
    
     64 (1787) – hulked 1809

Fourth rates of 60 guns (two-deckers)

• Edgar class
  Edgar class ship of the line
  The Edgar-class ships of the line were a class of three 60-gun fourth rates, designed for the Royal Navy by Sir Thomas Slade.-Ships:The Edgar-class ships of the line were a class of three 60-gun fourth rates, designed for the Royal Navy by Sir Thomas Slade.-Ships:The Edgar-class ships of the line...
  
   (Slade)
  • Edgar
    HMS Edgar (1758)
    HMS Edgar was a 60-gun fourth rate ship of the line of the Royal Navy, launched on 16 November 1758 at Rotherhithe.The physician Thomas Denman served on Edgar until 1763.She was sunk as a breakwater in 1774....
    
     60/64 (1758) – scuttled 1774
  • Panther
    HMS Panther (1758)
    HMS Panther was a 60-gun fourth rate ship of the line of the Royal Navy, launched on 22 June 1758 at Chatham Dockyard.She served during the Seven Years War, sailing for the far east to take part in the expedition against Manila...
    
     60 (1758) – broken up 1813
  • Firm
    HMS Firm (1759)
    HMS Firm was a 60-gun fourth rate ship of the line of the Royal Navy, launched on 15 January 1759 at Blackwall Yard, London.She was on harbour service from 1784, and was broken up in 1791....
    
     60 (1759) – sold 1791

Fourth rates of 50 guns (two-deckers)

Note that from 1756 onwards the 50-gun ships were no longer counted as ships of the line as the Navy no longer considered them powerful enough to stand in the line of battle.

• Warwick class (Bately)
  • Warwick 50 (1767) – sold 1802
• Romney class (Slade)
  • Romney
    HMS Romney (1762)
    HMS Romney was a 50-gun fourth rate of the Royal Navy. She served during the American War of Independence, and the French Revolutionary and Napoleonic Wars in a career that spanned forty years....
    
     50 (1762) – wrecked 1804, with the loss of nine lives, on the Haaks on South Sand Head due to the fog and the ignorance of the pilots
• Salisbury class (Slade) – modified Romney class
  • Salisbury 50 (1769) – wrecked, without loss of life, 1796 on the Isle of Vache near St. Domingo in the West Indies
  • Centurion
    HMS Centurion (1774)
    HMS Centurion was a 50-gun Salisbury-class fourth rate of the Royal Navy. She served during the American War of Independence, and during the French Revolutionary and Napoleonic Wars....
    
     50 (1774) – sank at her moorings at Halifax
    City of Halifax
    Halifax is a city in Canada, which was the capital of the province of Nova Scotia and shire town of Halifax County. It was the largest city in Atlantic Canada until it was amalgamated into Halifax Regional Municipality in 1996...
    
     1824, refloated, broken up 1825
• Portland class (Williams)
  • Portland 50 (1770) – sold 1817
  • Bristol
    HMS Bristol (1775)
    HMS Bristol was a fourth-rate ship with 50 guns, launched in 1775. During the American War of Independence, she was Sir Peter Parker's flagship during the attack on Sullivan's Island on June 28, 1776 and was heavily damaged during the battle. Later in the war, she was stationed off Jamaica, and...
    
     50 (1775) – broken up 1810
  • Renown
    HMS Renown (1774)
    HMS Renown was a 50-gun ship of the line of the Royal Navy.On 13 August 1778, she attacked the 90-gun Languedoc, which had been dismasted the day before in a storm, and raked her.She was eventually broken up in 1794....
    
     50 (1774) – broken up 1794
  • Isis
    HMS Isis
    Six ships of the British Royal Navy, and four tenders of the RNVR, have been named HMS Isis, after the Egyptian goddess Isis.* The first Isis was a 50-gun fourth-rate probably launched in 1744 as Colchester....
    
     50 (1774) – broken up 1810
  • Leopard
    HMS Leopard (1790)
    HMS Leopard was a 50-gun Portland-class fourth rate of the Royal Navy. She served during the French Revolutionary and Napoleonic Wars, and the War of 1812.-Construction and commissioning:...
    
     50 (1790) – wrecked 1814 near the Isle of Anacosti in the Saint Lawrence River
    Saint Lawrence River
    The Saint Lawrence is a large river flowing approximately from southwest to northeast in the middle latitudes of North America, connecting the Great Lakes with the Atlantic Ocean. It is the primary drainage conveyor of the Great Lakes Basin...
    
     due to the disobedience and neglect of the officer of the watch
  • Hannibal
    HMS Hannibal (1779)
    HMS Hannibal was a 50-gun fourth rate ship of the line of the Royal Navy, built by Adams of Bucklers Hard and launched on 26 December 1779. She was subsequently captured by the French ship Héros off Sumatra, on 21 January 1782....
    
     50 (1779) – captured by France 1782
  • Jupiter
    HMS Jupiter (1778)
    HMS Jupiter was a 50-gun Portland-class fourth rate ship of the Royal Navy. She served during the American War of Independence, the French Revolutionary Wars, and the Napoleonic Wars in a career that spanned thirty years....
    
     50 (1778) – wrecked 1808, with no loss of life, in Vigo
    Vigo
    Vigo is a city and municipality in north-west Spain, in Galicia, situated on the ria of the same name on the Atlantic Ocean.-Population:...
    
     Bay
  • Leander
    HMS Leander (1780)
    HMS Leander was a Portland-class 50-gun fourth rate of the Royal Navy, launched at Chatham on 1 July 1780. She served on the West Coast of Africa, West Indies, and the Halifax station. During the French Revolutionary Wars she participated in the Battle of the Nile before a French ship captured her....
    
     50 (1780) – captured by France 1798, captured by Russia 1799, returned to Britain, converted to hospital ship 1806, renamed Hygeia 1813, sold 1817
  • Adamant
    HMS Adamant (1780)
    HMS Adamant was a 50-gun Portland-class fourth rate warship of the British Royal Navy. She served during the American War of Independence, the French Revolutionary Wars, and the Napoleonic Wars in a career that spanned thirty years....
    
     50 (1780) – broken up 1814
  • Assistance
    HMS Assistance (1781)
    HMS Assistance was a 50-gun Portland-class fourth rate of the Royal Navy. She was launched during the American War of Independence and spent most of her career serving in American waters, particularly off Halifax and Newfoundland. Assistance was the flagship of several of the commanders of the...
    
     50 (1781) – wrecked 1802 on the outer banks of the northern part of Dunkirk Dyke due to the ignorance of her pilot, but with no loss of life due to the help of a Flemish pilot boat
  • Europa 50 (1783) – sold 1814
• Experiment class (Williams)
  • Experiment 50 (1774) – captured by France 1779
  • Medusa 50 (1785) – wrecked 1798
• Grampus class (Hunt)
  • Grampus 50 (1782) – broken up 1794
  • Cato 50 (1782) – disappeared 1782
• Trusty class (Hunt)
  • Trusty 50 (1782) – broken up 1815

Captured ships

• Alcide 64 (1743, ex-French Alcide, captured 1755); sold 1772
• Lys 64 (1746, ex-French Lys, captured 1755)
• Duc d'Aquitaine 64 (1754, ex-French Duc d'Aquitaine, captured 1757)
• Foudroyant
  HMS Foudroyant (1758)
  The Foudroyant was a 80-gun ship of the line of the French Navy. She was later captured and served in the Royal Navy as the Third Rate HMS Foudroyant.-French Navy and capture:...
  
   80 (1750, ex-French Foudroyant, captured 1758); broken up 1787
• Raisonnable 64 (1756, ex-French Rainsonnable, captured 1758); lost 1762
• Bienfaisant
  HMS Bienfaisant (1758)
  Bienfaisant was a 64-gun ship of the line of the French Navy, launched in 1754.She was captured by the Royal Navy on the night of 25 July 1758 during a cutting out expedition ordered by Admiral Edward Boscawen during the 1758 Siege of Louisbourg. Bienfaisant and the 74-gun Prudent were the last...
  
   64 (1754, ex-French Bienfaisant, captured 1758); broken up 1814
• Belliqueux
  HMS Belliqueux (1758)
  Belliqueux was a 64-gun ship of the line of the French Navy, launched in 1756.She was captured on 2 November 1758 by in the Irish Sea. She was taken into the Royal Navy and commissioned as the third rate HMS Belliqueux.The captains were:...
  
   64 (1756, ex-French Belliqueux, captured 1758); broken up 1772
• Modeste 64 (1759, ex-French Modeste, captured 1759); broken up 1800
• Centaur
  HMS Centaur (1759)
  Centaure was a 74-gun ship of the line of the French Navy, launched at Toulon in 1757.The Royal Navy captured Centaure at the Battle of Lagos on 18 August 1759, and commissioned her as the Third Rate HMS Centaur.-Loss:...
  
   74 (1757, ex-French Centaure, captured 1759); foundered 1782 with the loss of most of her crew
• Temeraire 74 (1749, ex-French Téméraire, captured 1759); sold 1784
• Formidable 80 (1751, ex-French Formidable, captured 1759); broken up 1768
• Courageux 74 (1753, ex-French Courageux, captured 1761)
• Belleisle
  HMS Belleisle (1761)
  Belleisle was a 64-gun ship of the line of the French Navy, launched in 1760.She was captured by the Royal Navy on 3 April 1761, and commissioned as the Third Rate HMS Belleisle....
  
   64 (1760, ex-French Belleisle, captured 1761); sold 1819
• Saint Ann 64 (1759, ex-French Saint Ann, captured 1761)
• San Antonio
  HMS San Antonio (1762)
  San Antonio was a 64-gun ship of the line of the Spanish Navy.On 13 August 1762 she was captured by the Royal Navy, and commissioned as the Third Rate HMS San Antonio....
  
   70 (1761, ex-Spanish San Antonio, captured 1762); sold 1775
• Prince William
  HMS Prince William (1780)
  HMS Prince William was a 64-gun third-rate ship of the line of the Royal Navy. She had previously been the Guipuzcoano, an armed merchantmen of the Spanish Compañía Guipuzcoana de Caracas....
  
   64 (ex-Spanish Guipuscoana, captured 1780)
• Gibraltar
  HMS Gibraltar
  Seven ships of the British Royal Navy have been named HMS Gibraltar, after the British overseas territory of Gibraltar.* The first Gibraltar was a 20-gun sixth-rate built in 1711, rebuilt 1727, and sold 1748...
  
   80 (1749, ex-Spanish Fenix, captured 1780) – broken up 1836
• Princessa 70 (1750, ex-Spanish Princessa, captured 1780)
• Monarca 70 (1756, ex-Spanish Monarca, captured 1780)
• Diligent 70 (1756, ex-Spanish Diligente, captured 1780)
• San Miguel 70 (1773, ex-Spanish San Miguel, captured 1780)
• Prothee 64 (1772, ex-French Protée, captured 1780)
• Princess Caroline (ex-Dutch, captured 1780) – Scuttled 1799
• Rotterdam 50 (ex-Dutch, captured 1781) – sold 1806
• Caesar
  HMS Caesar
  Four ships of the British Royal Navy have been named HMS Caesar, after the Roman general and dictator Julius Caesar.* Caesar was ordered as a 74-gun third rate from Plymouth Dockyard in 1777, but construction was cancelled in 1783....
  
   74 (ex-French César, captured 1782) – Blew up 1782
• Hector 74 (1755, ex-French Hector, captured 1782)
• Glorieux 74 (1756, ex-French Glorieux, captured 1782)
• Pegase 74 (1781, ex-French Glorieux, captured 1782)
• Caton 64 (1777, ex-French Caton, captured 1782)
• Argonaut
  HMS Argonaut
  Four ships of the Royal Navy have been named HMS Argonaut after the Argonauts of Greek mythology: was a 64-gun third-rate, originally the French ship Jason, captured in 1782 in the West Indies and broken up in 1831. was a Diadem-class armoured cruiser launched in 1898 and broken up in 1921. was a...
  
   64 (1779, ex-French Jason, captured 1782)
• Solitaire 64 (1774, ex-French Solitaire, captured 1782)

First rates of 120 guns (three-deckers)

• Caledonia class
  Caledonia class ship of the line
  The Caledonia-class ships of the line were a class of nine 120-gun first rates, designed for the Royal Navy by Sir William Rule. A tenth ship was ordered on 29 October 1827 to the same design, but was launched in 1833 as the Queen to a fresh design by Sir William Symonds.The armament remained the...
  
   (Rule)
  • Caledonia
    HMS Caledonia (1808)
    HMS Caledonia was a 120-gun first-rate ship of the line of the Royal Navy, launched on 25 June 1808 at Plymouth. She was Admiral Pellew's flagship in the Mediterranean....
    
     120 (1808) – renamed Dreadnought, broken up 1875
  • Britannia
    HMS Britannia (1820)
    HMS Britannia was a 120-gun first-rate ship-of-the-line of the Royal Navy, laid down in 1813 and launched on 20 October 1820.Commissioned in 1823, she saw service in the Mediterranean from 1830-1 and in 1841...
    
     120 (1820) – broken up 1869
  • Prince Regent
    HMS Prince Regent (1823)
    HMS Prince Regent was a 120-gun first rate three-decker ship of the line of the Royal Navy, launched on 12 April 1823 at Chatham.She was converted into a screw ship in 1861, and was broken up in 1873....
    
     120 (1823) – converted to screw, broken up 1873
  • Royal George
    HMS Royal George (1827)
    HMS Royal George was a 120-gun first rate ship of the line of the Royal Navy, launched on 22 September 1827 at Chatham.In 1853 she was fitted with screw propulsion. Boilers and engines were placed in space previously used for water tanks. Further space had to be given over to storing coal, which...
    
     120 (1827) – converted to screw, broken up 1875
• Nelson class
  Nelson class ship of the line
  The Nelson-class ships of the line were a class of three 120-gun first rates, designed for the Royal Navy as a joint effort between the two Surveyors of the Navy at the time.-Ships:...
  
   ('Surveyors' = Rule & Peake)
  • Nelson
    HMS Nelson (1814)
    HMS Nelson was a 126-gun first rate ship of the line of the Royal Navy, launched on 4 July 1814 at Woolwich.She was converted into a screw ship in 1860, being cut down to a two decker and fitted with an engine of 2,102 ihp for a speed of ....
    
     120 (1814) – 1859-60 cut down to 91-gun 2-decker and converted to screw, 1867 given to New South Wales Government and fitted as school ship, 1898 sold, 1928 broken up. No sea service as either sail or steam line-of-battle ship.
  • Saint Vincent
    HMS St Vincent (1815)
    HMS St Vincent was a 120-gun first rate ship of the line of the Royal Navy, laid down in 1810 at Plymouth Dockyard and launched on 11 March 1815 before a crowd that was put at 50,000 spectators.-Service:...
    
     120 (1815) – sold 1906
  • Howe
    HMS Howe
    Several ships of the Royal Navy have been named HMS Howe, after Admiral Richard Howe:* HMS Howe was the ex-Indian merchantman Kaikusroo; renamed to Dromedary in 1806 and sold in Bermuda in 1864 after many years service as a prison hulk....
    
     120 (1815) – broken up 1854
• Saint George class – broadened version of Caledonia
  • Saint George
    HMS St George (1840)
    HMS St George was a 120-gun first rate ship of the line of the Royal Navy, launched on 27 August 1840 at Plymouth.She was fitted with screw propulsion in 1859, and was sold out of the service in 1883....
    
     120 (1840) – sold 1883
  • Royal William
    HMS Royal William (1833)
    HMS Royal William was a 120-gun first rate ship of the line of the Royal Navy, launched on 2 April 1833 at Pembroke Dock.She was fitted with screw propulsion in 1860, and was destroyed by fire in 1899....
    
     120 (1833) – laid down as 120-gunner. Burnt 1899
  • Neptune
    HMS Neptune (1832)
    HMS Neptune was a 120-gun first rate ship of the line of the Royal Navy, launched on 22 September 1832 at Portsmouth.She was fitted with screw propulsion in 1859, and was sold out of the service in 1875....
    
     120 (1832) – cut down to 2-decker and converted to 2-decker steam line-of-battle ship 1859, broken up 1875,
  • Waterloo
    HMS Waterloo (1833)
    HMS Waterloo was a 120-gun first rate ship of the line of the Royal Navy, launched on 10 June 1833 at Chatham.Waterloo was cut down to an 89-gun 2-decker and converted to steam at Chatham 1 April 1859—12 December 1859. Following the loss of the modern 101-gun steam 2-decker Conqueror in 1861,...
    
     120 (1833) – cut down to an 89-gun 2-decker and converted to steam in 1859, and was renamed Conqueror in 1862. In 1877 she was renamed Warspite and served as a training ship at Greenhithe/Woolwich. She burned accidentally in 1918.
  • Trafalgar
    HMS Trafalgar (1841)
    HMS Trafalgar was a 120-gun first rate ship of the line of the Royal Navy, launched on 21 June 1841 at Woolwich Dockyard. She was the last to be completed of the successful Caledonia class....
    
     120 (1841) – laid down as 106-gunner. Sold 1906

First rates of 110 guns (three-deckers)

• Ville de Paris class (Henslow)
  • Ville de Paris 110 (1795) – hulked 1825, broken up 1845.
• Hibernia class (Henslow) – lengthened version of Ville de Paris
  • Hibernia
    HMS Hibernia (1804)
    HMS Hibernia was a 110-gun first rate ship of the line of the Royal Navy. She was launched at Plymouth dockyard on 17 November 1804, and was the only ship built to her draught, designed by Sir John Henslow....
    
     110 (1804) – sold 1902
• Ocean class (Henslow) – lengthened version of Neptune/Dreadnought
  • Ocean
    HMS Ocean (1805)
    HMS Ocean was a 98-gun second-rate ship of the line of the Royal Navy, launched from Woolwich Dockyard on 24 October 1805. She was the only ship built to her draught, and designed by Sir John Henslow....
    
     110 (1805) – cut down to 80-gun 2-decker 1821, hulked 1831, coal depot 1852, broken up 1875

First rates of 100/104 guns (three-deckers) – later rated as 110 guns

• Impregnable class (Rule)
  • Impregnable
    HMS Impregnable (1810)
    HMS Impregnable was a 98-gun second rate three-decker ship of the line of the Royal Navy, launched on 1 August 1810 at Chatham. She was designed by Sir William Rule, and was the only ship built to her draught...
    
     104 (1810) – harbour flagship Plymouth 1839, hulked as training ship 1862, renamed Kent 1883, renamed Caledonia 1891, sold 1906
• Trafalgar class (Rule) – modified Impregnable
  • Trafalgar
    HMS Trafalgar (1820)
    HMS Trafalgar was ordered as a 98-gun second rate ship of the line, re-rated as a 106-gun first rate ship of the line in February 1817 and launched on 26 July 1820 at Chatham...
    
     100 (1820) – renamed Camperdown 1825, hulked as coal deport Portsmouth 1860, renamed Pitt 1882, sold 1906
• Princess Charlotte class (Rule) – modified Impregnable
  • Princess Charlotte 104 (1825) – hulked as floating barracks Hong Kong 1857, sold 1875
  • Royal Adelaide
    HMS Royal Adelaide (1828)
    HMS Royal Adelaide was a 104-gun first-rate ship of the line of the Royal Navy, launched on 28 July 1828 at Plymouth.When first ordered in 1812 she was intended to be a second rate of 98 guns, but in the general reclassifications of 1817 she was reclassed as a first rate.By the time of the 1871...
    
     104 (1828) – ex-London, 1869 hulked as flag and receiving ship Plymouth, to Chatham 1891, sold 1905

Second rates of 98 guns (three-deckers)

• Neptune class
  Neptune class ship of the line
  The Neptune-class ships of the line were a class of three 98-gun second rates, designed for the Royal Navy by Sir John Henslow. All three of the ships in the class took part in the Battle of Trafalgar in 1805.-Ships:...
  
   (Henslow)
  • Dreadnought
    HMS Dreadnought (1801)
    HMS Dreadnought was a Royal Navy 98-gun second rate. This ship of the line was launched at Portsmouth at midday on Saturday, 13 June 1801, after she had spent 13 years on the stocks...
    
     98 (1801) – broken up 1857.
  • Neptune
    HMS Neptune (1797)
    HMS Neptune was a 98-gun second rate ship of the line of the Royal Navy. She served on a number of stations during the French Revolutionary and Napoleonic Wars and was present at the Battle of Trafalgar in 1805....
    
     98 (1797) – broken up 1818.
  • Temeraire
    HMS Temeraire (1798)
    HMS Temeraire was a 98-gun second-rate ship of the line of the Royal Navy. Launched in 1798, she served during the French Revolutionary and Napoleonic Wars, mostly on blockades or convoy escort duties...
    
     98 (1798) – broken up 1838.
• Boyne class
  Boyne class ship of the line (1810)
  The Boyne-class ships of the line of 1810 were a class of two 98-gun second rates, built to the draught of .-Ships:The Boyne-class ships of the line of 1810 were a class of two 98-gun second rates, built to the draught of .-Ships:...
  
   – built to the lines of Slade's Victory
  • Boyne
    HMS Boyne (1810)
    HMS Boyne was a 98-gun second rate ship of the line of the Royal Navy, launched on 3 July 1810 at Portsmouth.On 12 February 1812 she took part with HMS Caledonia in a hot action against the French line-of-battle ship Romulus off Toulon; the French 74 managed to escape to Toulon by sailing close to...
    
     98 (1810) – renamed Excellent 1834, broken up 1861
  • Union
    HMS Union (1811)
    HMS Union was a 98-gun second rate ship of the line of the Royal Navy, launched on 16 November 1811 at Plymouth.She was broken up in 1833....
    
     98 (1811) – broken up 1833

Second rates of 90/92 guns (two-deckers)

• Rodney class
  Rodney class ship of the line
  The Rodney-class ships of the line were a class of 3 two-deck 90-gun second rates, designed for the Royal Navy by Sir Robert Seppings.-Ships:...
  
   (Seppings)
  • Rodney
    HMS Rodney (1833)
    HMS Rodney was a two-deck 90-gun second rate ship of the line of the Royal Navy, launched on 18 June 1833 at Pembroke Dockyard.Rodney was the ship where William Hall , later to become the first Black man and one of the first Canadians to win the Victoria Cross, began his naval career in 1852.Rodney...
    
     92 (1833) – converted to screw 1860, broken up 1882
  • Nile 92 (1839) – converted to screw 1854, destroyed by fire 1956
  • London
    HMS London (1840)
    HMS London was a two-decker 90-gun second rate ship of the line of the Royal Navy, launched on 28 September 1840 at Chatham Dockyard.In 1854, London took part in the bombardment of Fort Constantine at Sevastopol during the Crimean War, where she sustained damage.In 1858 she was converted to screw...
    
     92 (1840) – converted to screw 1858, sold 1884

Second rates of 84 guns (two-deckers)

• Formidable class
  Canopus class ship of the line
  The Canopus-class ships of the line were a class of nine 84-gun two-deck second rates of the Royal Navy. Their design was based on an enlarged version of the lines of the captured French ship Franklin, since commissioned in the Royal Navy as HMS Canopus, although this ship herself was not included...
  
   (Seppings) – lines of the Canopus
  HMS Canopus (1798)
  HMS Canopus was an 80-gun third rate ship of the line of the British Royal Navy. She had previously served with the French Navy as the Tonnant-class Franklin, but was captured after less than a year in service by the British fleet under Rear Admiral Horatio Nelson at the Battle of the Nile in 1798...
  
    (ex-French Franklin, captured 1798), but structurally different
  • Formidable
    HMS Formidable (1825)
    HMS Formidable was an 84-gun second rate of the Royal Navy, launched on 19 May 1825 at Chatham Dockyard.In 1869 Formidable became a training ship, at the National Nautical School in Portishead, and she was sold out of the navy in 1906.-References:...
    
     84 (1825) – sold 1906
• Modified Formidable class built in teak in India
  • Ganges
    HMS Ganges (1821)
    HMS Ganges was an 84-gun second-rate ship of the line of the Royal Navy, launched on 10 November 1821 at Bombay Dockyard, constructed from teak...
    
     84 (1821) – sold 1929
  • Asia
    HMS Asia (1824)
    HMS Asia was an 84-gun second rate ship of the line of the Royal Navy, launched on 19 January 1824 at Bombay Dockyard.She was Codrington's flagship at the Battle of Navarino....
    
     84 (1824) – flagship at the Battle of Navarino
    Battle of Navarino
    The naval Battle of Navarino was fought on 20 October 1827, during the Greek War of Independence in Navarino Bay , on the west coast of the Peloponnese peninsula, in the Ionian Sea. A combined Ottoman and Egyptian armada was destroyed by a combined British, French and Russian naval force...
    
    , 1827, sold 1908
  • Bombay
    HMS Bombay (1828)
    HMS Bombay was an 84-gun second rate ship of the line of the Royal Navy, launched on 17 February 1828 at Bombay Dockyard.She was fitted with screw propulsion in 1861. Her efficient ventilation system spread a fire of unknown origin during target practice near Flores Island in the River Plate on 14...
    
     84 (1828) – converted to screw 1861, destroyed by accidental fire 1864
• Further modified Formidable class built in India
  • Calcutta
    HMS Calcutta (1831)
    HMS Calcutta was an 84-gun second-rate ship-of-the-line of the Royal Navy, built in teak to a draught by Sir Robert Seppings and launched on 14 March 1831 in Bombay. She was the only ship ever built to her draught. She carried her complement of smooth-bore, muzzle-loading guns on two gundecks...
    
     84 (1831) – sold 1908
• Modified Formidable class
  • Monarch
    HMS Monarch (1832)
    HMS Monarch was an 84-gun second rate ship of the line of the Royal Navy, launched on 18 December 1832 at Chatham Dockyard.She was used as a target ship from 1862, and broken up in 1866....
    
     84 (1832) – broken up 1862-66
  • Vengeance
    HMS Vengeance (1824)
    HMS Vengeance was an 84-gun second rate ship of the line of the Royal Navy, launched on 27 July 1824 at Pembroke Dockyard.. The Canopus class ships were all modelled on a captured French ship, the Franklin which was renamed Canopus...
    
     84 (1824) – sold 1897
  • Thunderer
    HMS Thunderer (1831)
    HMS Thunderer was a two-deck 84-gun second rate ship of the line, a modified version of the Canopus/Formidable-class launched on 22 September 1831 at Woolwich Dockyard....
    
     84 (1831) – sold 1901
  • Powerful
    HMS Powerful (1826)
    HMS Powerful was an 84-gun second rate ship of the line of the Royal Navy, launched on 21 June 1826 at Chatham Dockyard.From 1 January 1839 to the end of 1840 she was commanded by Captain Charles Napier, mainly in the Mediterranean and for much of the time as lead ship of a detached squadron under...
    
     84 (1826) – broken up 1860-64
  • Clarence
    HMS Clarence (1827)
    HMS Clarence was an 84-gun second rate ship of the line of the Royal Navy, launched on 25 July 1827 at Pembroke Dockyard.She was lent to the Liverpool Catholic Reformatory Assn for use as a boys reformatory ship, and was destroyed by a fire set by 6 of the boys whilst at her mooring in the Mersey...
    
     84 (1827) – ex-Goliath, accidentally burnt in the Mersey in 1884

Third rates of 80 guns (two-deckers)

• Foudroyant class (Henslow)
  • Foudroyant
    HMS Foudroyant (1798)
    HMS Foudroyant was an 80-gun third rate of the Royal Navy. She was built at Plymouth Dockyard and launched on 31 March 1798.Goodwin gives the launch date for Foudroyant as 31 March, 25 May, and 31 August. The text highlights this discrepancy and attributes the August date to Lyon's Sailing Navy...
    
     80 (1798) – hulked as gunnery training ship Plymouth 1861, sold to Wheatley Cobb as boys training ship, wrecked on Blackpool Sands whilst on a fund raising and propaganda tour
• Rochfort class (Barrallier)
  • Rochfort
    HMS Rochfort (1814)
    HMS Rochfort was a 74-gun third rate ship of the line of the Royal Navy, launched on 6 August 1814 at Milford Haven. She was designed by the French émigré Jean-Louis Barrallier, and was the only ship built to her draught....
    
     80 (1814) – broken up 1826
  • Sandwich 80 (-) – ordered 1809, keel laid Dec 1809, cancelled 1811
• Waterloo class (Peake)
  • Waterloo
    HMS Waterloo (1818)
    HMS Waterloo was an 80-gun third rate ship of the line, launched on 16 October 1818 at Portsmouth. She was designed by Henry Peake, and was the only ship built to her draught. She had originally been ordered as HMS Talavera, but was renamed on the stocks after the Battle of Waterloo.In 1824...
    
     80 (1818) – renamed Bellerophon 1824, became receiving ship Plymouth, sold 1892
• Cambridge class – lines of Danish Christian VII taken 1807
  • Cambridge
    HMS Cambridge (1815)
    HMS Cambridge was an 80-gun third rate ship of the line of the Royal Navy, launched on 23 June 1815 at Deptford Dockyard. She was built to the lines of the Danish ship Christian VII, which had been captured in 1807 at the Second Battle of Copenhagen....
    
     80 (1815) – later classed as 82, hulked as gunnery training ship Plymouth 1856, broken up 1869
• Indus class – enlarged lines of Danish Christian VII taken 1807
  • Indus 80 (1839) – hulked 1860 as harbour flagship Plymouth, sold for breaking 1898
• Hindostan class – enlarged lines of Repulse
  • Hindostan 80 (1841) – hulked 1884 as cadet training ship at Dartmouth, training ship for boy artificers at Portsmouth renamed Fishgard III 1905, sold for breaking up 1921

Third rates of 74 guns (two-deckers)

• Brunswick class
  HMS Brunswick (1790)
  HMS Brunswick was a 74-gun third rate ship of the line of the Royal Navy, launched on 30 April 1790 at Deptford.On 29 October 1792, three condemned mutineers of the Mutiny on the Bounty were hanged from her yardarms....
  
   ('Admiralty')
  • Brunswick
    HMS Brunswick (1790)
    HMS Brunswick was a 74-gun third rate ship of the line of the Royal Navy, launched on 30 April 1790 at Deptford.On 29 October 1792, three condemned mutineers of the Mutiny on the Bounty were hanged from her yardarms....
    
     74 (1790) – hulked as prison ship Chatham 1812, powder magazine 1814, lazaretto Sheerness 1825, broken up 1826
• Mars class
  Mars class ship of the line
  The Mars-class ships of the line were a class of two 74-gun third rates of the large class, designed for the Royal Navy by Sir John Henslow....
  
   (Henslow)
  • Mars
    HMS Mars (1794)
    HMS Mars was a 74-gun third-rate ship of the line of the Royal Navy, launched on 25 October 1794 at Deptford Dockyard.-Career:In the early part of the French Revolutionary Wars she was assigned to the Channel Fleet. In 1797 under Captain Alexander Hood she was prominent in the Spithead mutiny...
    
     74 (1794) – hulked as receiving ship Portsmouth 1814, broken up 1819
  • Centaur
    HMS Centaur (1797)
    HMS Centaur was a 74-gun third rate of the Royal Navy, launched on 14 March 1797 at Woolwich. She served as Sir Samuel Hood's flagship in the Leeward Islands and the Channel. During her 22-year career Centaur saw action in the Mediterranean, the Channel, the West Indies, and the Baltic, fighting...
    
     74 (1797) – broken up 1819
• Courageux class
  HMS Courageux (1800)
  HMS Courageux was a 74-gun third rate ship of the line of the Royal Navy, launched on 26 March 1800 at Deptford. She was designed by Sir John Henslow as one of the large class 74s, and was the only ship built to her draught...
  
   (Henslow)
  • Courageux
    HMS Courageux (1800)
    HMS Courageux was a 74-gun third rate ship of the line of the Royal Navy, launched on 26 March 1800 at Deptford. She was designed by Sir John Henslow as one of the large class 74s, and was the only ship built to her draught...
    
     74 (1800) – hulked as lazaretto Chatham 1814, broken up 1832
• Plantagenet class
  HMS Plantagenet (1801)
  HMS Plantagenet was a 74-gun third rate ship of the line of the Royal Navy, launched on 22 October 1801 at Woolwich. She was designed by Sir William Rule as one of the 'large class' 74s, and was the only ship built to her draught...
  
   (Rule)
  • Plantagenet
    HMS Plantagenet (1801)
    HMS Plantagenet was a 74-gun third rate ship of the line of the Royal Navy, launched on 22 October 1801 at Woolwich. She was designed by Sir William Rule as one of the 'large class' 74s, and was the only ship built to her draught...
    
     74 (1801) – broken up 1817
• Bulwark class
  HMS Bulwark (1807)
  HMS Bulwark was a 74-gun third rate ship of the line of the Royal Navy, launched on 23 April 1807 at Portsmouth. She was designed by Sir William Rule as one of the large class 74s, and was the only ship built to her draught. As a large 74, she carried 24 pdrs on her upper gun deck instead of the 18...
  
   (Rule)
  • Bulwark
    HMS Bulwark (1807)
    HMS Bulwark was a 74-gun third rate ship of the line of the Royal Navy, launched on 23 April 1807 at Portsmouth. She was designed by Sir William Rule as one of the large class 74s, and was the only ship built to her draught. As a large 74, she carried 24 pdrs on her upper gun deck instead of the 18...
    
     74 (1807) – ex-Scipio, broken up 1826
  • Valiant – ordered 1826, but not started
• Ajax class
  Ajax class ship of the line
  The Ajax-class ships of the line were a class of two 74-gun third rates of the Royal Navy. They were grouped in with the large class of 74s, as they carried 24 pdrs on their upper gun decks, rather than the 18 pdrs of the middling and common class 74s...
  
    – modified version of 1757 Valiant class
  • Ajax
    HMS Ajax (1798)
    HMS Ajax was an Ajax class 74-gun third rate ship of the line of the Royal Navy. She was built by John Randall & Co of Rotherhithe and launched on the Thames on 3 March 1798...
    
     74 (1798) – accidentally burnt off Tenedos 14 & 15 Feb 1807
  • Kent
    HMS Kent (1798)
    HMS Kent was a 74-gun third rate ship of the line of the Royal Navy, launched on 17 January 1798 at Blackwall Yard.She became a sheer hulk in 1856, and was broken up in 1881....
    
     74 (1798) – sheer hulk at Plymouth 1857, broken up 1881
• Conqueror class
  HMS Conqueror (1801)
  HMS Conqueror was a 74-gun third-rate ship of the line of the Royal Navy, launched on 23 November 1801 at Harwich. She was designed by Sir John Henslow as part of the Middling class of 74s, and was the only ship built to her draught...
  
    (Henslow) – modified Mars class
  • Conqueror
    HMS Conqueror (1801)
    HMS Conqueror was a 74-gun third-rate ship of the line of the Royal Navy, launched on 23 November 1801 at Harwich. She was designed by Sir John Henslow as part of the Middling class of 74s, and was the only ship built to her draught...
    
     74 (1801) – broken up 1822
• Dragon class
  HMS Dragon (1798)
  HMS Dragon was a 74-gun third rate ship of the line of the Royal Navy, launched on 2 April 1798 at Rotherhithe. She was designed by Sir William Rule, and was the only ship built to her draught....
  
   (Rule)
  • Dragon
    HMS Dragon (1798)
    HMS Dragon was a 74-gun third rate ship of the line of the Royal Navy, launched on 2 April 1798 at Rotherhithe. She was designed by Sir William Rule, and was the only ship built to her draught....
    
     74 (1798) – lazaretto at Pembroke 1824, receiving ship and marine barracks 1832, renamed Fame 1842, broken up 1850
• Northumberland class – lines of French Impetueux taken 1794
  • Northumberland
    HMS Northumberland (1798)
    HMS Northumberland was a 74-gun third rate ship of the line of the Royal Navy, built at the yards of Barnard, Deptford and launched on 2 February 1798....
    
     74 (1798) – lazaretto at Sheerness 1827, broken up 1850
  • Renown
    HMS Renown (1798)
    HMS Renown was a 74-gun third-rate ship of the line of the Royal Navy. She was to have been named HMS Royal Oak, but the name was changed to Renown on 15 February 1796....
    
     74 (1798) – hospital ship Plymouth 1814, later to Deptford(?), broken up 1835(?)
• Spencer class
  HMS Spencer (1800)
  HMS Spencer was a 74-gun third-rate ship of the line of the Royal Navy, launched on 10 May 1800 at Bucklers Hard. Her designer was the French émigré shipwright Jean-Louis Barrallier.-Battle of Algeciras Bay:...
  
   (Barralier)
  • Spencer
    HMS Spencer (1800)
    HMS Spencer was a 74-gun third-rate ship of the line of the Royal Navy, launched on 10 May 1800 at Bucklers Hard. Her designer was the French émigré shipwright Jean-Louis Barrallier.-Battle of Algeciras Bay:...
    
     74 (1800) – broken up 1822
• Achille class – lines of French Pompée taken 1793
  • Achille
    HMS Achille (1798)
    HMS Achille was a 74-gun third-rate ship of the line of the Royal Navy. She was built by Cleverley Bros., a private shipyard at Gravesend, and launched on 16 April 1798. Her design was based on the lines of the captured French ship...
    
     74 (1798) – sold for breaking 1865
  • Superb
    HMS Superb (1798)
    HMS Superb was a 74-gun third rate ship of the line of the Royal Navy, and the fourth vessel to bear the name. She was launched on 19 March 1798 from Northfleet, and was eventually broken up in 1826. Superb is mostly associated with Richard Goodwin Keats who commanded her as captain from 1801 until...
    
     74 (1798) – broken up 1826
• Revenge class
  HMS Revenge (1805)
  HMS Revenge was a 74-gun third rate ship of the line of the Royal Navy, launched on 13 April 1805. She was designed by Sir John Henslow as one of the large class 74s, and was the only ship built to her draught...
  
   – lines of French Impetueux taken 1794
  • Revenge
    HMS Revenge (1805)
    HMS Revenge was a 74-gun third rate ship of the line of the Royal Navy, launched on 13 April 1805. She was designed by Sir John Henslow as one of the large class 74s, and was the only ship built to her draught...
    
     74 (1806) – broken up 1840
• Milford class
  HMS Milford (1809)
  HMS Milford was a 74-gun third rate ship of the line of the Royal Navy, launched on 1 April 1809 at Milford Haven. She was designed by Jean-Louis Barrallier as a large class 74, and was the only ship built to her draught...
  
   – lines of French Impetueux taken 1794
  • Milford
    HMS Milford (1809)
    HMS Milford was a 74-gun third rate ship of the line of the Royal Navy, launched on 1 April 1809 at Milford Haven. She was designed by Jean-Louis Barrallier as a large class 74, and was the only ship built to her draught...
    
     74 (1806) – lazaretto at Pembroke 1825, broken up 1846
  • Princess Amelia 74 (-) – keel laid 1 Jan 1799, cancelled March 1800
• Colossus class (Henslow)
  • Colossus
    HMS Colossus (1803)
    HMS Colossus was a 74-gun third-rate ship of the line of the Royal Navy, launched from Deptford Dockyard on 23 April 1803. She was designed by Sir John Henslow as one of the large class 74s, and was the name ship of her class, the other being . As a large 74, she carried 24 pdrs on her upper gun...
    
     74 (1803) – broken up 1826
  • Warspite
    HMS Warspite (1807)
    HMS Warspite was a 74-gun third-rate ship of the line of the Royal Navy, launched in 1807. She served in the Napoleonic Wars and was decommissioned in 1815. After conversion to a 76-gun ship in 1817 she circumnavigated the world, visiting Australia. She was cut down to a single decker 50-gun...
    
     74 (1807) – cut down to 50 gun frigate 1840, hulked 1862 and lent to Marine Society as training ship, accidentally burnt at Woolwich 1876,
• Fame/Hero class (Henslow)
  • Fame
    HMS Fame (1805)
    HMS Fame was a 74-gun third rate ship of the line of the Royal Navy, built at Deptford Dockyard. She was constructed on the same building slip as was , her keel having been ordered to be laid down on it immediately after the other ship's launch on 26 March 1800...
    
     74 (1805) – broken up 1817
  • Albion
    HMS Albion (1802)
    HMS Albion was a 74-gun third-rate ship of the line of the Royal Navy. She was launched at Perry's Blackwall Yard on the Thames on 17 June 1802...
    
     74 (1802) – lazaretto Portsmouth 1831, broken up 1836
  • Hero
    HMS Hero (1803)
    HMS Hero was a 74-gun third rate of the Royal Navy, launched on 18 August 1803 at Blackwall Yard.She took part in Admiral Robert Calder's action at the Battle of Cape Finisterre in 1805....
    
     74 (1803) – wrecked on the Haak Islands 25 Dec 1811
  • Illustrious
    HMS Illustrious (1803)
    HMS Illustrious was a 74-gun third rate ship of the line of the Royal Navy, launched on 3 September 1803 at Rotherhithe.Illustrious served as a gunnery ship from 1854, and was broken up in 1868....
    
     74 (1803) – hulked as ordinary guard ship Plymouth 1848, hospital ship 1853, reverted to ordinary guard ship 1859, broken up 1868
  • Marlborough
    HMS Marlborough (1807)
    HMS Marlborough was a 74-gun third rate ship of the line of the Royal Navy, launched on 22 June 1807 at Deptford. In 1808, she helped escort the Portuguese royal family in its flight from Portugal to Brazil.Marlborough was broken up in 1835....
    
     74 (1807) – broken up 1835
  • York
    HMS York (1807)
    HMS York was a 74-gun third-rate ship of the line of the Royal Navy, built at Rotherhithe by the contract firm Samuel & Daniel Brent, and launched on 7 July 1807. She saw service during the Napoleonic Wars, though is best known for her time spent as a prison ship...
    
     74 (1807) – hulked as convict ship Portsmouth 1819, broken up 1835
  • Hannibal
    HMS Hannibal (1810)
    HMS Hannibal was a 74-gun third rate ship of the line of the Royal Navy, built by Adams of Bucklers Hard and launched in May 1810.She was used for harbour service from August 1825. Hannibal was broken up in December 1833 at Pembroke Dock....
    
     74 (1810) – lazaretto Plymouth 1825, later to Pembroke(?), broken up 1834
  • Sultan
    HMS Sultan (1807)
    HMS Sultan was a 74-gun third rate ship of the line of the Royal Navy, launched on 19 September 1807 at Deptford Wharf.Sultan became a receiving ship in 1860, and was broken up in 1864....
    
     74 (1807) – hulked as receiving ship Portsmouth 1861, target ship 1862, broken up 1864
  • Royal Oak
    HMS Royal Oak (1809)
    HMS Royal Oak was a 74-gun third rate ship of the line of the Royal Navy, launched on 4 March 1809 at Dudman's yard at Deptford Wharf. Her first commanding officer was Captain Pulteney Malcolm.-Napoleonic Wars:...
    
     74 (1809) – hulked as receiving ship Bermuda 1825, broken up 1850
• Modified Carnatic class (derived from prize Courageux, taken from the French 1761)
  • Aboukir
    HMS Aboukir (1807)
    HMS Aboukir was a 74-gun third rate ship of the line of the Royal Navy, launched on 18 November 1807 at Frindsbury.She was placed on harbour service in 1824, and was sold in 1838....
    
     74 (1807) – hulked 1824, sold 1838.
  • Bombay
    HMS Bombay (1808)
    HMS Bombay was a 74-gun third rate ship of the line of the Royal Navy, launched on 28 March 1808 at Deptford.She was renamed HMS Blake in 1819 in honour of Admiral Robert Blake, and was converted to harbour service in 1828. She was broken up in December 1855....
    
     74 (1808) – renamed Blake 1819, hulked 1823, broken up 1855.
• Swiftsure class
  Swiftsure class ship of the line
  The Swiftsure-class ships of the line were a class of two 74-gun third rates, designed for the Royal Navy by Sir John Henslow.-Ships:The Swiftsure-class ships of the line were a class of two 74-gun third rates, designed for the Royal Navy by Sir John Henslow.-Ships:The Swiftsure-class ships of the...
  
   (Henslow)
  • Swiftsure
    HMS Swiftsure (1804)
    HMS Swiftsure was a 74-gun third rate ship of the line of the Royal Navy, launched from Bucklers Hard on 23 July 1804. She fought at Trafalgar.The French 74-gun ship Swiftsure also took part in the battle...
    
     74 (1804) – hulked as receiving ship Portsmouth 1819, broken up 1845
  • Victorious
    HMS Victorious (1808)
    HMS Victorious was a 74-gun third-rate ship of the line of the Royal Navy, launched at Bucklers Hard on 20 October 1808, just five years after the previous had been broken up....
    
     74 (1808) – hulked as receiving ship Portsmouth 1826, broken up 1861
• Repulse class
  Repulse class ship of the line
  The Repulse-class ships of the line were a class of eleven 74-gun third rates, designed for the Royal Navy by Sir William Rule. The first three ships to this design were ordered in 1800, with a second batch of five following in 1805...
  
   (Rule) – Talavera structurally different
  • Repulse
    HMS Repulse (1803)
    HMS Repulse was a 74-gun third rate ship of the line of the Royal Navy, launched on 22 July 1803 at Deptford.In 1805, Repulse took part in the Battle of Cape Finisterre. In 1807 the ship served in the Mediterranean squadron under Vice-Admiral John Thomas Duckworth during the Dardanelles Operation...
    
     74 (1803) – broken up 1820
  • Eagle
    HMS Eagle (1804)
    HMS Eagle was a 74-gun third rate ship of the line of the Royal Navy, launched on 27 February 1804 at Northfleet.In 1830 she was reduced to a 50-gun ship, and became a training ship in 1860. She was renamed HMS Eaglet in 1919, when she was the Royal Naval Reserve training centre for North West...
    
     74 (1804) – cut down as 50-gun frigate 1831, hulked at Falmouth for the Coastguard 1857, training ship in Southampton Water 1860, to Liverpool 1862, Mersey Division RNVR 1910, renamed Eaglet 1918, burnt 1926, wreck sold for breaking 1927
  • Sceptre
    HMS Sceptre (1802)
    HMS Sceptre was a 74-gun third rate of the Royal Navy, built by Dudman of Deptford after a design by Sir William Rule, and launched in December 1802 at Deptford. She served in the Napoleonic Wars and the War of 1812 before being broken up in 1821....
    
     74 (1802) – broken up 1821
  • Magnificent
    HMS Magnificent (1806)
    HMS Magnificent was a 74-gun third rate ship of the line of the Royal Navy, launched on 30 August 1806 at Blackwall Yard.She was hulked in 1825, and eventually sold out of the service in 1843....
    
     74 (1806) – hulked as receiving ship Jamaica 1823, sold 1843
  • Valiant
    HMS Valiant (1807)
    HMS Valiant was a 74-gun third rate ship of the line of the Royal Navy, launched on 24 January 1807 at Blackwall Yard.On 17 June 1813, Valiant was in company with when they came upon in pursuit of an American brig off Cape Sable. The three British ships continued the chase for another 100 miles...
    
     74 (1807) – broken up 1823
  • Elizabeth
    HMS Elizabeth (1807)
    HMS Elizabeth was a 74-gun third rate ship of the line of the Royal Navy, launched on 23 May 1807 at Blackwall.Elizabeth was broken up in 1820....
    
     74 (1807) – broken up 1820
  • Cumberland
    HMS Cumberland (1807)
    HMS Cumberland was a 74-gun third rate ship of the line of the Royal Navy, launched on 19 August 1807 at Northfleet.She was converted to serve as a prison ship in 1830. She was renamed Fortitude in 1833....
    
     74 (1807) – hulked as convict ship and coal deport Chatham, renamed Fortitude 1833, to Sheerness as coal deport by 1856, sold 1870
  • Venerable
    HMS Venerable (1808)
    HMS Venerable was a 74-gun third rate ship of the line of the Royal Navy, launched on 12 April 1808 at Northfleet.-Career:On 13 December 1810 Venerable was in company with the hired armed cutter Nimrod and several other vessels at the capture of the Goede Trouw.On 31 December 1813, she captured the...
    
     74 (1808) – hulked as church ship Portsmouth, broken up 1838
  • Talavera
    HMS Talavera (1818)
    HMS Talavera was a 74-gun third rate ship of the line of the Royal Navy, launched on 15 October 1818 at Woolwich Dockyard. She was named for the British/Spanish victory at the Battle of Talavera.She was destroyed by fire in 1840....
    
     74 (1818) – timbered according to Seppings' principle using smaller timbers than usual. Accidentally burnt at Plymouth Oct 1840, then broken up
  • Belleisle
    HMS Belleisle (1819)
    HMS Belleisle was a 74-gun third rate ship of the line of the Royal Navy, launched on 26 April 1819 at Pembroke Dockyard.Belleisle was converted to serve as a troopship in 1841, and was broken up in 1872....
    
     74 (1819) – troopship 1841, hulked as hospital ship Sheerness 1854, lent to the seaman's hospital at Greenwich 1866-68, broken up 1872
  • Malabar
    HMS Malabar (1818)
    HMS Malabar was a 74-gun third rate ship of the line of the Royal Navy, launched on 28 December 1818 at Bombay Dockyard. She was hulked in October 1848, eventually becoming a coal hulk, and renamed Myrtle in October 1883. The hulk was sold out of the navy in July 1905....
    
     74 (1818) – hulked as coal deport Portsmouth 1848, renamed Myrtle 1883, sold 1905
• Blake class – lengthened Leviathan class
  • Blake
    HMS Blake (1808)
    HMS Blake was a 74-gun third rate ship of the line of the Royal Navy, launched on 23 August 1808 at Deptford and named in honour of Admiral Robert Blake.From 1814 she served as a prison ship, and in 1816 Blake was sold out of the navy....
    
     74 (1808) – hulked as temporary prison ship Portsmouth 1814, sold 1816
  • San Domingo
    HMS San Domingo (1809)
    HMS San Domingo was a 74-gun third-rate ship of the line of the Royal Navy, launched on 3 March 1809 at Woolwich.On 13 April 1813, Sir John Borlase Warren's squadron, consisting of his flagship, San Domingo, and , , , , Mohawk, and pursued four schooners into the Rappahannock...
    
     74 (1809) – sold 1816
• Armada or Vengeur class
  Vengeur class ship of the line
  The Vengeur-class ships of the line were a class of forty 74-gun third rates, designed for the Royal Navy as a joint effort between the Surveyors of the Navy at the time...
  
  . The most numerous class of British capital ships ever built, with forty vessels being completed to this design (they were popularly known as the "Forty Thieves").
  • Armada
    HMS Armada (1810)
    HMS Armada was a Royal Navy 74-gun third-rate ship of the line. She was launched on 23 March 1810 by Mrs Pridham, the wife of the Mayor of Plymouth, Mr Joseph Pridham. After a relatively undistinguished career, Armada was sold out of the Navy in 1863 and broken up at Marshall's ship breaking yard...
    
     74 (1810) – sold 1863
  • Cressy
    HMS Cressy (1810)
    HMS Cressy was a 74-gun third rate ship of the line of the Royal Navy, launched on 7 March 1810 at Frindsbury.-Service:On 24 December 1811 Cressy was off the west coast of Jutland, Denmark was in the company of St George, under Rear-admiral Robert Carthew Reynolds, and Defence, when a hurricane and...
    
     74 (1810) – 1827 planned to be converted to 50-gun frigate but instead broken up 1832
  • Vigo
    HMS Vigo (1810)
    HMS Vigo was a 74-gun third rate ship of the line of the Royal Navy, launched on 21 February 1810 at Rochester.She became a receiving ship in 1827, and was broken up in 1865....
    
     74 (1810) – hulked at receiving ship Plymouth, broken up 1865
  • Vengeur
    HMS Vengeur (1810)
    HMS Vengeur was a 74-gun third rate of the Royal Navy, launched on 19 June 1810 at Harwich. She had an uneventful career, having participated in no battles or engagements.-Service:...
    
     74 (1810) – hulked as receiving ship 1824, broken up 1843
  • Ajax
    HMS Ajax (1809)
    HMS Ajax was a 74-gun third rate ship of the line of the Royal Navy, launched on 2 May 1809 at Blackwall Yard.She was converted to a blockship with screw propulsion for coastal defence in 1846....
    
     (1809) – converted to 60-gun screw blockship, 1847, broken up 1864
  • Conquestador
    HMS Conquestador (1810)
    HMS Conquestador was a 74-gun third rate ship of the line of the Royal Navy, launched on 1 August 1810 at Northam.She was cut down to a 50-gun ship in 1827, and hulked in 1860. Conquestador was sold out of the Navy in 1897....
    
     74 (1810) – cut down to 50 gun frigate 1831, hulked War Office powder depot at Purfleet 1856, powder depot Plymouth 1863, sold 1897
  • Poictiers
    HMS Poictiers (1809)
    HMS Poictiers was a 74-gun Royal Navy third rate. This ship of the line was launched on 9 December 1809 at Upnor. She played a small role in the War of 1812. She was broken up in 1857.-Active service:...
    
     74 (1809) – broken up 1857
  • Berwick
    HMS Berwick (1809)
    HMS Berwick was a 74-gun third rate ship of the line of the Royal Navy, launched on 11 September 1809 at Blackwall.Berwick was broken up in 1821....
    
     74 (1809) – broken up 1821
  • Egmont
    HMS Egmont (1810)
    HMS Egmont was a 74-gun third rate ship of the line of the Royal Navy, launched on 7 March 1810 at Northfleet.She was converted to serve as a storeship in 1862, and was sold out of the Navy on 1875....
    
     74 (1810) – hulked as storeship Rio de Janeiro 1863, sold 1875
  • Clarence
    HMS Clarence (1812)
    HMS Clarence was a 74-gun third rate ship of the line of the Royal Navy, launched on 11 April 1812 at Turnchapel.In 1826 Clarence was re-rated as a fourth rate, and was broken up in 1828....
    
     74 (1812) – renamed Centurion 1826 and planned to be converted to 50-gun frigate but instead broken up 1828
  • Edinburgh
    HMS Edinburgh (1811)
    HMS Edinburgh was a 74-gun third rate ship of the line of the Royal Navy, launched on 26 November 1811 at Rotherhithe.Between 1837 and 1841 she served in the Mediterranean, including operations off the coast of Syria and Lebanon in the Syrian War. In 1846 she was taken in hand at Portsmouth...
    
     74 (1811) – converted to 60-gun screw blockship 1852, sold 1866
  • America
    HMS America (1810)
    HMS America was a 74-gun third rate ship of the line of the Royal Navy, launched on 21 April 1810 at Blackwall Yard.In 1827 America was cut down into a fourth rate, and was broken up in 1867....
    
     74 (1810) – cut down to 50-gun frigate 1835, hulked 1864, broken up 1867
  • Scarborough
    HMS Scarborough (1812)
    HMS Scarborough was a 74-gun third rate ship of the line of the Royal Navy, launched on 29 March 1812 at Harwich.Scarborough was sold out of the Navy in 1836....
    
     74 (1812) – sold 1836
  • Asia
    HMS Asia (1811)
    HMS Asia was a 74-gun third rate ship of the line of the Royal Navy, launched on 2 December 1811 at Frindsbury.In 1828 Asia was reduced to a 50-gun ship, and was eventually broken up in 1865....
    
     (1811) – renamed Alfred, cut down to 50-gun frigate 1828, hulked as gunnery trials ship Portsmouth 1858, broken up 1865
  • Mulgrave
    HMS Mulgrave (1812)
    HMS Mulgrave was a 74-gun third rate ship of the line of the Royal Navy, launched on 1 January 1812 at Upnor.Mulgrave was hulked in 1836, and broken up in 1854....
    
     74 (1812) – hulked as a lazaretto Pembroke 1836, powder ship 1844, broken up 1854
  • Anson
    HMS Anson (1812)
    HMS Anson was a 74-gun third rate ship of the line of the Royal Navy, launched on 11 May 1812 at Hull.She was placed on harbour service in 1839, carried 499 male convicts to Hobart in 1844, served the next seven years there as a probation ship for female convicts, and was finally broken up there in...
    
     74 (1812) – hulked as temporary lazaretto Portsmouth 1831, by 1843 to Chatham and then to Tasmania as a convict ship, broken up 1851
  • Gloucester
    HMS Gloucester (1812)
    HMS Gloucester was a 74-gun third rate ship of the line of the Royal Navy, launched on 27 February 1812 at Northfleet.She was reduced to a 50-gun ship in 1832, and was sold out of the Navy in 1884....
    
     74 (1812) – cut down to 50-gun frigate 1835, hulked as receiving ship Chatham 1861, sold 1884
  • Rodney
    HMS Rodney (1809)
    HMS Rodney was a 74-gun third rate ship of the line of the Royal Navy, launched on 8 December 1809 at Deptford.In 1827 she was reduced to a 50-gun ship, and in 1836 Rodney was sold out of the Navy....
    
     74 (1809) – renamed Greenwich 1827 and cut down to 50-gun frigate, but conversion probably never completed, sold 1836
  • Hogue
    HMS Hogue (1811)
    HMS Hogue was a 74-gun third-rate ship of the line of the Royal Navy, launched on 3 October 1811 at Deptford.During the War of 1812, while under the command of Thomas Bladen Capel, the HMS Hogue successfully trapped the American Privateer Young Teazer of the coast of Nova Scotia, Canada.She was...
    
     74 (1811) – converted to 60-gun screw blockship 1848, broken up 1865
  • Dublin
    HMS Dublin (1812)
    HMS Dublin was a 74-gun third rate ship of the line of the Royal Navy, launched on 13 February 1812 at Rotherhithe.In 1826 she was reduced to a 40-gun ship...
    
     74 (1812) – cut down to 50-gun frigate 1836, laid up 1845, sold 1885
  • Barham
    HMS Barham (1811)
    HMS Barham was a 74-gun third rate ship of the line of the Royal Navy, launched on 8 July 1811 at Blackwall Yard.In 1826 Barham was reduced to a 50-gun ship, and she was broken up in 1839....
    
     74 (1811) – cut down to 50-gun frigate 1836, broken up 1840
  • Benbow
    HMS Benbow (1813)
    HMS Benbow was a 74-gun third rate ship of the line of the Royal Navy, built by Brent of Rotherhithe and launched on 3 February 1813.She was used for harbour service from February 1848 until August 1859, when she was converted to be used as a coal hulk. In 1892, after 79 years of service, she was...
    
     74 (1813) – hulked as marine barracks Sheerness 1848, prison ship for Russians 1854, coal deport 1859, sold for breaking 1894
  • Stirling Castle
    HMS Stirling Castle (1811)
    HMS Stirling Castle was a 74-gun third rate ship of the line of the Royal Navy, launched on 31 December 1811 at Rochester.She became a prison ship in 1839, and was broken up in 1861....
    
     74 (1811) – hulked as convict ship Plymouth 1839, to Portsmouth 1844, broken up 1861
  • Vindictive
    HMS Vindictive (1813)
    HMS Vindictive was a 74-gun third-rate ship of the line of the Royal Navy, launched on 30 November 1813 at Portsmouth.Vindictive was the lead ship of the 40-vessel Vengeur class, indeed she was ordered prior to the design for this class being finalised; however she was delayed in construction and...
    
     74 (1813) – cut down to 50-gun frigate 1833, hulked as depot ship Fernando Po 1862, sold 1871
  • Blenheim
    HMS Blenheim
    At least three ships of the Royal Navy have been named HMS Blenheim, after the Battle of Blenheim.*HMS Blenheim was a 90-gun second rate ship of the line built in 1761, and lost in 1807. She took part in the Battle of Cape St Vincent ....
    
     (1813) – converted to 60-gun screw blockship 1847, hulked at Portsmouth, broken up 1865
  • Duncan
    HMS Duncan (1811)
    HMS Duncan was a 74-gun third rate ship of the line of the Royal Navy, launched on 2 December 1811 at Deptford Wharf.She was placed on harbour service in 1834, and was broken up in 1863....
    
     74 (1811) – hulked as lazaretto Portsmouth 1826, to Sheerness 1831, broken up 1863
  • Rippon
    HMS Rippon (1812)
    HMS Rippon was a 74-gun third rate ship of the line of the Royal Navy, launched on 8 August 1812 at Bursledon.Rippon was broken up in 1821....
    
     74 (1812) – broken up 1821
  • Medway
    HMS Medway (1812)
    HMS Medway was a 74-gun third rate ship of the line of the Royal Navy, launched on 19 November 1812 at Northfleet.Medway was converted to serve as a prison ship in 1847, and was sold out of the Navy in 1865....
    
     74 (1812) – hulked as convict ship Bermuda 1847, sold 1865
  • Cornwall
    HMS Cornwall (1812)
    HMS Cornwall was a 74-gun third-rate ship of the line of the Royal Navy, launched on 16 January 1812 at Deptford. She served in the English Channel in the Napoleonic Wars.In 1831 she was razeed to a 50-gun ship, though never saw active service again....
    
     74 (1812) – cut down to 50-gun frigate 1830, hulked and lent to London School Ship Society as reformatory 1859, to the Tyne as Wellesley hulk 1868, broken up 1875
  • Pembroke
    HMS Pembroke (1812)
    HMS Pembroke was a 74-gun third rate ship of the line of the Royal Navy, launched on 27 June 1812 at Blackwall Yard.She was fitted with screw propulsion in 1855, transferred to the Coastguard in 1858, and used as a base ship from 1887....
    
     (1812) – converted to 60-gun screw blockship 1855, hulked as base ship Chatham 1873, renamed Forte 1890 as receiving hulk, then Pembroke again 1891, sold 1905
  • Indus
    HMS Indus (1812)
    HMS Indus was a 74-gun third rate ship of the line of the Royal Navy, launched on 19 December 1812 at Deptford Wharf.She was placed on harbour service in 1840, and was eventually broken up in 1868....
    
     (1812) – renamed Bellona 1818, hulked as receiving ship Plymouth 1842, broken up 1868
  • Redoubtable
    HMS Redoubtable (1815)
    HMS Redoubtable was a 74-gun third rate ship of the line of the Royal Navy, launched on 26 January 1815 at Woolwich.Redoubtable was broken up in 1841....
    
     74 (1815) – broken up 1841
  • Devonshire
    HMS Devonshire (1812)
    HMS Devonshire was a 74-gun third rate ship of the line of the Royal Navy, launched on 23 September 1812 at Deptford.She was placed on harbour service in 1849, and was broken up in 1869....
    
     74 (1812) – hulked and lent to Greenwich Seamen's Hospital as temporary hospital ship 1849, to Sheerness as prison ship for Russians 1854, school ship in Queensborough Swale 1860, broken up 1869
  • Defence
    HMS Defence (1815)
    HMS Defence was a 74-gun third rate ship of the line of the Royal Navy, launched on 25 April 1815 at Chatham.She was converted to serve as a prison ship in 1849. Defence was badly damaged by fire an accidental fire, probably caused by spontaneous combustion in a load recently delivered coal , at...
    
     74 (1815) – hulked as convict ship Woolwich 1848, burnt and broken up 1857
  • Hercules
    HMS Hercules (1815)
    HMS Hercules was a 74-gun third-rate ship of the line of the Royal Navy. She was launched on 5 September 1815 at Chatham.On 26 December 1852 Hercules departed on her way to Hong Kong to take up duties as a hospital ship...
    
     74 (1815) – troopship 1838, emigrant ship 1852, hulked as army depot ship Hong Kong after 1853, sold 1865
  • Agincourt
    HMS Agincourt (1817)
    HMS Agincourt was a 74-gun third rate ship of the line of the Royal Navy, launched on 19 March 1817 at Devonport.She was placed on harbour service in 1848, and sold out of the Navy in 1884.-External links:*...
    
     (1817) – hulked as training ship at Plymouth after 1848, renamed Vigo 1865, cholera hospital ship 1866, receiving ship at Plymouth 1870, sold 1884, broken up 1885
  • Pitt
    HMS Pitt (1816)
    HMS Pitt was a 74-gun third rate ship of the line of the Royal Navy, launched on 13 April 1816 at Portsmouth.Pitt was hulked in 1853, and was broken up in 1877....
    
     74 (1816) – hulked as coal deport and receiving ship at Plymouth 1853, to Portland 1860, later back to Portsmouth, broken up 1877
  • Wellington (1816) – ex-Hero, hulked as receiving and depot ship Sheerness 1848, to Coastguard Sheerness 1857, to Liverpool Juvenile Reformatory Association Ltd as training ship and renamed Akbar, sold for breaking 1908
  • Russell
    HMS Russell (1822)
    HMS Russell was a 74-gun third rate ship of the line of the Royal Navy, launched on 22 May 1822 at Deptford.She was fitted with screw propulsion in 1855, and was broken up in 1865....
    
     74 (1822) – converted to 60-gun screw blockship 1854-55, coastguard ship Sheerness 1858, broken up 1865
  • Akbar 74 (-) – keel laid 4 Apr 1807, cancelled 12 Oct 1809. Uncertain whether she was of this class
• Cornwallis class – teak-built versions of Armada class
  • Cornwallis
    HMS Cornwallis (1813)
    HMS Cornwallis was a 74-gun third rate ship of the line of the Royal Navy, launched on 12 May 1813 at Bombay. She was built of teak. The capture of Java by USS Constitution delayed the completion of Cornwallis as Java had been bringing her copper sheathing from England.On 27 April 1815, Cornwallis...
    
     74 (1813) – converted to 60-gun screw blockship 1854-55, hulked as a jetty at Sheerness 1865, renamed Wildfire 1916 as base ship, broken up 1957
  • Wellesley
    HMS Wellesley (1815)
    HMS Wellesley was a 74-gun third rate, named for the Duke of Wellington, and launched in 1815. She captured Karachi for the British, and participated in the First Opium War, which resulted in Britain gaining control of Hong Kong...
    
     74 (1815) – hulked as harbour flagship and receiving ship at Chatham 1862,to Purfleet for the London School Ship Society as a reformatory and renamed Cornwall 1868, sunk by the Luftwaffe 1940 (the only ship-of-the-line ever to be sunk in an air attack)
  • Carnatic 74
    HMS Carnatic (1823)
    HMS Carnatic was a 74-gun third rate ship of the line of the Royal Navy, launched on 21 October 1823 at Portsmouth Dockyard. Her design was based on , as completed.Carnatic was hulked in 1860, and sold out of the navy in 1914....
    
     (1823) – hulked as coal deport Portsmouth 1860, floating magazine for the War Office 1886, returned to the Admiralty 1891, sold 1914
• Black Prince class
  Black Prince class ship of the line
  The Black Prince-class ships of the line were a class of four 74-gun third rates built for the Royal Navy in the closing years of the Napoleonic War...
  
  Note that, while Wellesley belonged officially to this class, plans meant for her construction were lost in 1812 when aboard the Java which was captured by the Americans; so she was actually built to the lines of the Cornwallis (see above).
  • Black Prince
    HMS Black Prince (1816)
    HMS Black Prince was a 74-gun third rate ship of the line of the Black Prince class of the Royal Navy, launched on 30 March 1816 at Woolwich Dockyard.In 1848 Black Prince became a prison ship at Chatham, and she was broken up in 1855....
    
     74 (1816) – broken up 1855
  • Melville
    HMS Melville (1817)
    HMS Melville was a 74-gun third rate ship of the line of the Royal Navy, launched on 17 February 1817 at Bombay Dockyard.From 19 January 1836 until August 1837 she served in North America and the West Indies as the flagship of Vice-Admiral Peter Halkett and was commanded by Captain Peter John Douglas...
    
     74 (1817) – hulked as hospital ship Hong Kong 1857, sold 1873
  • Hawke
    HMS Hawke (1820)
    HMS Hawke was a 74-gun third rate ship of the line of the Black Prince class of the Royal Navy, launched on 16 March 1820 at Woolwich Dockyard....
    
     74 (1820) – converted to 60-gun screw blockship 1854-55, broken up 1865
• Chatham class
  HMS Chatham (1812)
  HMS Chatham was a 74-gun third rate ship of the line of the Royal Navy. She had been planned as the Royal-Hollandais for the French Navy, but was captured while under construction during the Walcheren Campaign....
  
   – design used captured frames of Franco-Dutch Royal Hollondais
  • Chatham
    HMS Chatham (1812)
    HMS Chatham was a 74-gun third rate ship of the line of the Royal Navy. She had been planned as the Royal-Hollandais for the French Navy, but was captured while under construction during the Walcheren Campaign....
    
     74 (1812) – sold 1817
• Hastings class
  HMS Hastings (1819)
  HMS Hastings was a 74-gun third rate ship of the line of the Royal Navy. She was built in Calcutta for the Honourable East India Company, but purchased by the Royal Navy on 22 June 1819....
  
   – purchased from East India Company in 1819
  • Hastings
    HMS Hastings (1819)
    HMS Hastings was a 74-gun third rate ship of the line of the Royal Navy. She was built in Calcutta for the Honourable East India Company, but purchased by the Royal Navy on 22 June 1819....
    
     74 (1819) – converted to 60-gun screw blockship 1855, Coastguard 1857, coal hulk 1870, sold 1885
• Class uncertain
  • Augusta(?) 74 (-) – keel laid 1806(?), cancelled 1810(?)

Third rates of 72 guns (two-deckers)

• Imaun class
  HMS Imaun (1826)
  HMS Imaun was a 76-gun third rate ship of the line of the Royal Navy. She was built in Bombay, and launched on 10 November 1826 for the Imaun of Muscat, who presented the ship to the Royal Navy on 9 March 1836....
  
   – gift to the RN from the Imam of Muscat 1836
  • Imaun
    HMS Imaun (1826)
    HMS Imaun was a 76-gun third rate ship of the line of the Royal Navy. She was built in Bombay, and launched on 10 November 1826 for the Imaun of Muscat, who presented the ship to the Royal Navy on 9 March 1836....
    
     70 (1826) – hulked at Jamaica as receiving ship 1842, broken up 1862/66

Fourth rates of 50 guns (two-deckers)

• Antelope class (Henslow)
  • Antelope 50 (1802) – broken up 1845
• Diomede class (Henslow) – probably a variant of Antelope
  • Diomede 50 (1798) – broken up 1815
  • Grampus
    HMS Grampus (1802)
    HMS Grampus was a 50-gun fourth-rate ship of the line of the Diomede Class of the Royal Navy. She was commissioned in March 1803 at Portsmouth by Captain Hugh Downman, but in the following month command passed to Captain Thomas Gordon Caulfield. The ship was completed on 11 April 1803 and was...
    
     50 (1802) – sold 1832
• Jupiter class
  • Jupiter 50 (1813) – broken up 1870
• modified Jupiter class
  • Salisbury 50 (1814) – sold 1837
  • Romney 50 (1815) – sold 1845
  • Isis
    HMS Isis (1819)
    HMS Isis launched in 1819 was ordered in 1811 as a 50-gun two-decker of the fourth rate Salisbury class, but was redesigned while building, being lengthened on the stocks by 11 feet, and cut down by one deck to produce a spar-deck frigate, that is, to carry extra guns on the spar deck which...
    
     50 (1819) – sold 1867

Converted East Indiamen

• Calcutta
  HMS Calcutta (1795)
  HMS Calcutta was an East Indiaman converted to a Royal Navy 56-gun fourth rate. This ship of the line served for a time as an armed transport. She also transported convicts to Australia in a voyage that became a circumnavigation of the world. The French 74-gun Magnanime captured Calcutta in 1805...
  
   – launched in 1788 as Warley; purchased in 1795; captured by France 1805
• Grampus – launched in 1787 as Ceres; purchased in 1795; grounded in 1799 on the Barking shelf near Woolwich through the ignorance of the pilot and abandoned with no loss of life
• Hindostan
  HMS Hindostan (1795)
  HMS Hindostan was a 56-gun fourth-rate ship of the line of the Royal Navy. She was originally the East Indiaman Hindostan, and was bought by the Admiralty in 1795...
  
   – launched in 1789 as Hindostan; purchased in 1795; lost in a fire at sea in 1804
• Abergavenny
  HMS Abergavenny (1795)
  HMS Abergavenny was originally the Earl of Abergavenny, an East Indiaman. As an East Indiaman she made two trips to China between 1791 and 1794. The Royal Navy bought her in 1795, converted her to a 56-gun fourth-rate ship of the line, and renamed her...
  
   – launched as Earl of Abergavenny in 1789; purchased in 1795; sold 1807
• Malabar – launched as Royal Charlotte in 1789; purchased in 1795; foundered 1796 on a passage from the West Indies with her crew being taken off by the Martha of Whitby
• Glatton
  HMS Glatton (1795)
  HMS Glatton was a 56-gun fourth rate of the Royal Navy. She was launched as the Glatton, an East Indiaman, on 29 November 1792 by Wells & Co. of Blackwell. The Royal Navy bought her in 1795 and converted her into a warship. Glatton was unusual in that for a time she was the only ship-of-the-line...
  
   – launched as Glatton in 1792; purchased in 1795; scuttled 1830
• Coromandel – built as Winterton; purchased and launched in 1795; sold 1813
• Madras – built as Lascelles; purchased and launched in 1795; sold 1807
• Weymouth – built as Earl Mansfield; purchased and launched in 1795; wrecked, with no loss of life, in 1800 on the Lisbon Bar while going into Lisbon
  Lisbon
  Lisbon is the capital city and largest city of Portugal with a population of 545,245 within its administrative limits on a land area of . The urban area of Lisbon extends beyond the administrative city limits with a population of 3 million on an area of , making it the 9th most populous urban...
  
  
• Malabar
  HMS Malabar (1804)
  HMS Malabar was a 56-gun fourth rate of the Royal Navy. She had previously been the East Indiaman Cuvera, which the Navy bought in 1804. The Navy converted her to a storeship in 1806. After being renamed HMS Coromandel she became a convict ship and made a trip carrying convicts to New South Wales...
  
   – launched in 1798 as Cuvera; purchased in 1804; renamed Coromandel in 1815; broken up in 1853
• Hindostan
  HMS Hindostan (1804)
  HMS Hindostan was a 50-gun two-decker fourth rate of the Royal Navy. She was originally a teak-built East Indiaman named Admiral Rainier that the Royal Navy brought into service in May 1804...
  
   – launched 1798 as Admiral Rainier; purchased in 1804; renamed Dolphin in 1819; renamed Justitia in 1831; sold 1855

French ships

• Commerce de Marseille
  French ship Commerce de Marseille (1788)
  The Commerce de Marseille was a 118-gun ship of the line of the French Navy, lead ship of the Océan class.Commerce de Marseille was offered to the King by the Commerce Chamber of Marseille. Built on state-of-the-art plans by Sané, she was dubbed the "finest ship of the century"...
  
   120 (1788) – ex-French, captured 29 Aug 1793, prison ship by 1800, sold 1802
• Pompée 74 (1791) – ex-French, captured 29 Aug 1793, broken up 1817
• Juste
  French ship Deux Frères
  The Deux Frères was a 80-gun ship of the line of the French Navy. She was offered to King Louis XVI by his two brothers.On 29 September 1792, she was renamed Juste. She took part in the Bataille du 13 prairial an 2, where she was captured....
  
   80 (1784) – ex-French, captured Glorious First of June
  Glorious First of June
  The Glorious First of June [Note A] of 1794 was the first and largest fleet action of the naval conflict between the Kingdom of Great Britain and the First French Republic during the French Revolutionary Wars...
  
   in 1794, broken up 1811
• Ca Ira 80 (1784) – ex-French, captured Glorious First of June
  Glorious First of June
  The Glorious First of June [Note A] of 1794 was the first and largest fleet action of the naval conflict between the Kingdom of Great Britain and the First French Republic during the French Revolutionary Wars...
  
   in 1794, Burnt by accident 11 April 1896.
• Sans Pareil
  HMS Sans Pareil (1794)
  HMS Sans Pareil was an 80-gun third rate ship of the line of the Royal Navy. She was formerly the French ship Sans Pareil, but was captured in 1794 and spent the rest of her career in service with the British.-French service:...
  
   80 (1793) – ex-French, captured Glorious First of June
  Glorious First of June
  The Glorious First of June [Note A] of 1794 was the first and largest fleet action of the naval conflict between the Kingdom of Great Britain and the First French Republic during the French Revolutionary Wars...
  
   in 1794, sheer hulk 1810, broken up 1842
• Impétueux
  French ship America (1788)
  America was a Téméraire-class 74-gun ship of the line of the French Navy. The Royal Navy captured her in 1794 at the Battle of the Glorious First of June. She then served with the British under the name HMS Impetueux until she was broken up in 1813...
  
   74 (1788) – ex-French America, captured Glorious First of June
  Glorious First of June
  The Glorious First of June [Note A] of 1794 was the first and largest fleet action of the naval conflict between the Kingdom of Great Britain and the First French Republic during the French Revolutionary Wars...
  
   in 1794, broken up 1813
• Le Tigre'
  French ship Tigre (1793)
  Tigre was a 74-gun ship of the line of the French Navy.Her first captain was Pierre Jean Van Stabel. When Van Stabel was promoted, she became the flagship of his 6-ship squadron. She notably fought in 1793 to rescue the Sémillante, along with the Jean Bart.Under Jacques Bedout, she took part in...
  
   80 (1793) – ex-French, captured 23 Jun 1795, broken up 1817
• Belleisle
  HMS Belleisle (1795)
  Lion was a 74-gun third rate ship of the line of the French Navy, which later served in the Royal Navy. She was built at Rochefort. She was later renamed Marat and then Formidable, with the changing fortunes of the French Revolution....
  
   74 (1788) – ex-French Formidable, captured 23 Jun 1795, fought at Trafalgar, broken up 1814
• L'Hercule
  French ship Hercule (1798)
  The Hercule was a 74-gun ship of the line of the French Navy.During her maiden journey, on 21 April 1798, and just 24 hours out of port, she was captured by the British ship HMS Mars after a violent fight, off Île de Sein near Brest...
  
   84 (1797) – ex-French, captured 11 Oct 1797, fitted as troopship 1799, powder hulk 1802, sunk as breakwater 1822.
• Canopus 80 (1797) – ex-French Franklin, captured 1 Aug 1798, harbour service 1863, sold 1887
• Tonnant 80 (1789) – ex-French captured 1 Aug 1798, broken up 1821
• Spartiate 80 (1794) – ex-French Spartiate, sheer hulk 1842, broken up 1857
• Donegal
  HMS Donegal (1798)
  The Barra was a Téméraire class 74-gun ship of the line of the French Navy. She was renamed Pégase in 1795, and Hoche in 1797. She was captured by the British on 12 October 1798 and recommissioned in the Royal Navy as HMS Donegal....
  
   76 (1794) – ex-French Hoche captured 12 Oct 1798, broken up 1845
• Guerrier
  French ship Guerrier (1754)
  The Guerrier was a Magnifique class 74-gun ship of the line of the French Navy.She took part in the Battle of Minorca and in the Battle of Lagos...
  
   (1754) – ex-French Guerrière, captured 2 Aug 1798, broken up 1810.
• Genereux (1785)
  French ship Généreux (1785)
  The Généreux was a French Téméraire class ship of the line.She was launched in 1785 at Rochefort. With the Guillaume Tell, she was one of only two ships to escape the British attack at the Battle of the Nile in August 1798....
  
   74 (1785) – ex-French, captured 18 Feb 1800, prison ship 1805, broken up 1816
• Malta (1795) 84 (1795) – ex-French Guillaume Tell, captured 30 Mar 1800, harbour service 1831, broken up 1840
• Athenienne (1800)
  HMS Athenienne
  HMS Athenienne was a 64-gun third-rate ship of the line of the Royal Navy. She was the former Maltese ship San Giovanni, captured by the French and recommissioned as Athénien, and eventually taken by the Royal Navy after the surrender of Valletta, on 4 September 1800.In 1805, under the command of...
  
   64 (1800) – ex-French Athenien ex-Maltese, captured 30 Aug 1798, wrecked 1806

Dutch ships

• Overyssel 64 – captured 22 October 1795, hulk 1810, sold 1882
• Zealand 64 – captured 19 January 1796, harbour service 1803, sold 1830

Captured at the Battle of Saldahna Bay

Battle of Saldanha Bay (1796)

The designation Battle of Saldanha Bay refers to the surrender without a fight of a squadron of the navy of the Batavian Republic under the command of Rear-Admiral Engelbertus Lucas to a Royal Navy squadron under the command of Vice-Admiral George Elphinstone at Saldanha Bay on August 17,...

, 17 August 1796

• Delft 64 – ex-Dutch Hercules, hospital ship by 1804, sold 1817
• Dordrecht 64 – harbour service 1804, sold 1823
• Prince Frederick 64 – ex-Dutch Revolutie, hospital ship by 1804, sold 1817

Captured at the Battle of Camperdown

Battle of Camperdown

The Battle of Camperdown was a major naval action fought on 11 October 1797 between a Royal Navy fleet under Admiral Adam Duncan and a Dutch Navy fleet under Vice-Admiral Jan de Winter...

, 11 October 1797

• Vryheid 70 – prison ship 1798, powder hulk 1802, sold 1811.
• Camperdown 70 – ex-Dutch Jupiter, prison ship 1798, powder hulk 1802, sold 1817.
• Gelykheid 64/68 – guardship 1803, sheer hulk 1807, disposed of in 1814.
• Admiral De Vries 64 – harbour service 1800, sold 1806
• Haarlem 64 – harbour service 1811, sold 1816
• Wassenar 64 – hulk 1804, sold 1818

Captured at the Vlieter Incident

Vlieter Incident

The Vlieter incident was the surrender without a fight of a squadron of the navy of the Batavian Republic, commanded by Rear-Admiral Samuel Story, during the Anglo-Russian Invasion of Holland to the British navy on a sandbank near the Channel known as De Vlieter, near Wieringen, on August 30,...

, 30 August 1799

• Princess of Orange 70 – ex-Dutch Washington, harbour service 1806, sold 1822.
• Leyden 64 – floating battery 1805, sold 1815
• Texel 64 – ex-Dutch Cerberus, sold 1818

Spanish ships

• San Nicolas 80 (1769) – ex-Spanish, captured Battle of Cape St Vincent (1797), prison ship 1798, sold 1814.
• San Josef 110 (1783) – ex-Spanish, captured Battle of Cape St Vincent (1797), training ship by 1837, broken up 1849
• San Antonio (1800) 74 (1800) – ex-French Saint Antoine originally Spanish, ceded to France 1800, captured at the Battle of Algeciras Bay
  Battle of Algeciras Bay
  The Battle of Algeciras Bay refers to two separate battles in July 1801 between an allied French-Spanish fleet and the British near Gibraltar. In the first battle, the French drove off an attack by the larger British fleet and captured one ship of the line...
  
   in 1801, prison ship 1804, sold 1828

Captured Dutch fourth-rate

Fourth-rate

In the British Royal Navy, a fourth rate was, during the first half of the 18th century, a ship of the line mounting from 46 up to 60 guns. While the number of guns stayed subsequently in the same range up until 1817, after 1756 the ships of 50 guns and below were considered too weak to stand in...

 two-deckers

• Brakel (c. 1784) – ex-Dutch, captured at the Battle of Saldanha Bay (1796)
  Battle of Saldanha Bay (1796)
  The designation Battle of Saldanha Bay refers to the surrender without a fight of a squadron of the navy of the Batavian Republic under the command of Rear-Admiral Engelbertus Lucas to a Royal Navy squadron under the command of Vice-Admiral George Elphinstone at Saldanha Bay on August 17,...
  
  , sold 1814
• Tromp (c. 1779) – ex-Dutch, captured the Battle of Saldanha Bay (1796)
  Battle of Saldanha Bay (1796)
  The designation Battle of Saldanha Bay refers to the surrender without a fight of a squadron of the navy of the Batavian Republic under the command of Rear-Admiral Engelbertus Lucas to a Royal Navy squadron under the command of Vice-Admiral George Elphinstone at Saldanha Bay on August 17,...
  
  , sold 1815
• Alkmaar (c. 1783) – ex-Dutch, captured at the Battle of Camperdown
  Battle of Camperdown
  The Battle of Camperdown was a major naval action fought on 11 October 1797 between a Royal Navy fleet under Admiral Adam Duncan and a Dutch Navy fleet under Vice-Admiral Jan de Winter...
  
   (1797), sold 1815
• Broederschap (c. 1769) – ex-Dutch, captured the Vlieter Incident
  Vlieter Incident
  The Vlieter incident was the surrender without a fight of a squadron of the navy of the Batavian Republic, commanded by Rear-Admiral Samuel Story, during the Anglo-Russian Invasion of Holland to the British navy on a sandbank near the Channel known as De Vlieter, near Wieringen, on August 30,...
  
   (1799), renamed Broaderscarp, broken up 1805
• Batavier (c. 1779) – ex-Dutch, captured at the Vlieter Incident
  Vlieter Incident
  The Vlieter incident was the surrender without a fight of a squadron of the navy of the Batavian Republic, commanded by Rear-Admiral Samuel Story, during the Anglo-Russian Invasion of Holland to the British navy on a sandbank near the Channel known as De Vlieter, near Wieringen, on August 30,...
  
   (1799), broken up 1823
• Beschermer (c. 1784) – ex-Dutch, captured at the Vlieter Incident
  Vlieter Incident
  The Vlieter incident was the surrender without a fight of a squadron of the navy of the Batavian Republic, commanded by Rear-Admiral Samuel Story, during the Anglo-Russian Invasion of Holland to the British navy on a sandbank near the Channel known as De Vlieter, near Wieringen, on August 30,...
  
   (1799), aold 1838

Note the six Dutch ships above were 54-gun ships, and thus classed by the British Navy as Fourth rate two-deckers, and not as ships of the line.

Captures of the Napoleonic War

• French 80-gun ships of Le Tonnant class:
  • Brave 80 – ex-French Le Formidable, captured 1805, broken up 1816
  • Alexandre – ex-French L'Alexandre, captured 1806, sold 1822
• French 74-gun ships of Le Téméraire class:
  • Duquesne 74 (1788) – ex-French Le Duquesne, captured 25 Jul 1803, stranded 1804, broken up 1805
  • Implacable
    HMS Implacable (1805)
    HMS Implacable was a 74-gun third rate of the Royal Navy. She was originally the French Navy's Téméraire-class ship of the line Duguay-Trouin, launched in 1800....
    
     74 (1800) – ex-French Le Duguay-Trouin, captured 4 Nov 1805, training ship 1805, scuttled 1949
  • Mont Blanc
    French ship Mont-Blanc (1791)
    Mont-Blanc was a 74-gun third-rate ship of the line of the French Navy.She was built at Rochefort as Pyrrhus in 1791. She was renamed Mont-Blanc in 1793 before being renamed Trente-et-un Mai in 1794. Under that name she fought at the Battle of the First of June in June 1794 under Honoré Joseph...
    
     74 (1791) – ex-French Le Mont Blanc, captured 4 Nov 1805, hulk 1811, sold 1819
  • Scipion 74 (1801) – ex-French Le Scipion, captured 4 Nov 1805, broken up 1819
  • Brave 74 (1795) – ex-French Le Brave, captured 6 Feb 1806, foundered 1806
  • Maida 74 (1795) – ex-French Le Jupiter, captured 6 Feb 1806), sold 1814
  • Marengo
    French ship Jean-Jacques Rousseau (1795)
    The Jean-Jacques Rousseau was a Téméraire class 74-gun ship of the line of the French Navy.In October 1796, under captain Racord, she was part of the Villeneuve's squadron that sailed from Toulon to Brest...
    
     74 (1795) – ex-French Le Marengo, captured 1806, broken up 1816
  • Abercrombie 74 (1807) – ex-French Le d'Hautpoult, captured 7 Sep 1809, sold 1817
  • Genoa (ex-French Le Brillant, captured 1814 on stocks) – broken up 1838
• French 74-gun ship of Le Pluton class:
  • Rivoli
    French ship Rivoli (1810)
    The Rivoli was a Téméraire class ship of the line of the French Navy.Rivoli was built in Venice, whose harbour was too shallow for a 74 to exit. To allow her to depart, a system of external ballasts, known as Chameaux , was added to improved her Buoyancy...
    
     74 (1810) – ex-French Le Rivoli, captured 22 Feb 1812, broken up 1819
• Spanish 74-gun ship of San Juan Nepomuceno class:
  • San Juan 74 – ex-Spanish San Juan Nepomuceno
    Spanish ship San Juan Nepomuceno
    San Juan Nepomuceno was a Spanish ship of the line launched in 1765 from the royal shipyard in Guarnizo . Like many 18th Century Spanish warships she was named after a saint...
    
    , captured 21 Oct 1805, hulked 1805

Danish ship captured at the Battle of Copenhagen (1801)

• HMS Holstein
  HDMS Holsteen
  HolsteenThis ship's name appears as Holsteen or Holsten in Danish records, and as Holstein in English. She was renamed Nassau in 1805 was a 60-gun ship of the line in the Royal Dano-Norwegian Navy. She was commissioned in 1775 and the British Royal Navy captured her in the Battle at Copenhagen...
  
   - renamed to Nassau in 1805; sold 1814.

Danish ships captured at the Battle of Copenhagen (1807)

Battle of Copenhagen (1807)

The Second Battle of Copenhagen was a British preemptive attack on Copenhagen, targeting the civilian population in order to seize the Dano-Norwegian fleet and in turn originate the term to Copenhagenize.-Background:Despite the defeat and loss of many ships in the first Battle of Copenhagen in...

• Christian VIII 80 (?) – harbour service 1809, broken up 1838
• Dannemark 74 (?) – sold 1815
• Norge 74 (?)– sold 1816
• Princess Carolina 74 (?) – sold 1815

List of ships-of-the-line of the Royal Navy (1830–1847)

Captain Sir William Symonds

William Symonds

Sir William Symonds FRS was "Surveyor of the Navy" in the Royal Navy from 9 June 1832 to October 1847, and took part in the naval reforms instituted by the Whig First Lord of the Admiralty Sir James Robert George Graham in 1832.-Early life:He was the second son...

 served as Surveyor of the Navy

Surveyor of the Navy

The Surveyor to the Navy was a civilian officer in the Royal Navy. He was a member of the Navy Board from the inauguration of that body in 1546, and held overall responsibility for the design of British warships, although until 1745 the actual design work for warships built at each Royal Dockyard...

 from 1832 to 1847. Captain Symonds was a naval officer and yacht designer, "who had risen to prominence by his success in competitive sailing trials between small warships. His selection implied a criticism of the dockyard-trained architects of the preceding 200 years". Symonds attempted a revolution in warship design. His ships were designed to be faster under sail, and have more room for the gunners to work the guns (improving ergonomics). To achieve this, his ships were larger, and used a different hull form to provide stability without needing large amounts of ballast. Unfortunately the Surveyor's department was understaffed for the amount of work they were undertaking, and mistakes were made. Symonds' designs had more stability than was desirable, with the result that they rolled excessively and therefore were poor gun platforms. Another problem with Symonds' ships was that they were very sensitive to the distribution of weights on board ship, such as the stores carried and consumed on a voyage.

Symonds worked very closely with John Edye, an experienced and well-educated shipwright officer. Edye was responsible for the details of structure and construction. The ships that Symonds and Edye designed had far more iron in their structure than the previous generation of ships designed by Seppings.

First rates of 120 guns (three-deckers)

• Royal Albert class (Lang) 3-decker, 120 guns
  • Royal Albert
    HMS Royal Albert (1854)
    HMS Royal Albert was a 121 gun three-decker ship of the Royal Navy launched in 1854 at Woolwich Dockyard. She had originally been designed as a sailing ship but was converted to screw propulsion while still under construction....
    
     120 (1854) – laid down 1844, converted to screw 1852-4
• Duke of Wellington class (Surveyors Department) improved Queen, 3-deckers, 120 guns
  • Windsor Castle 120 (1852) – laid down 1849, converted to screw 131-guns 1852, renamed Duke of Wellington
  • Marlborough
    HMS Marlborough (1855)
    HMS Marlborough was a first-rate three-decker 131 gun screw ship built for the Royal Navy in 1855. She was begun as a sailing ship of the line , but was completed to a modified design and converted to steam on the stocks.She served as flagship of the Mediterranean Fleet from 1858-64 HMS...
    
     120 (1855) – laid down 1850, converted to screw 131-guns 1853-5
  • Royal Sovereign
    HMS Royal Sovereign (1857)
    HMS Royal Sovereign was originally laid down as a 120-gun first-rate ship of the line of the Royal Navy. She would have mounted sixteen cannon, 114 guns, and a pivot gun. With the rise of steam and screw propulsion, she was ordered to be converted on the stocks to a 131-gun screw ship, with...
    
     120 (1857) – laid down 1849, converted to screw 1855-57
  • Prince of Wales
    HMS Prince of Wales (1860)
    HMS Prince of Wales was one of six 121-gun screw-propelled first-rate three-decker line-of-battle ships of the Royal Navy. She was launched on 25 January 1860...
    
     120 (1860) – laid down 1848, converted to screw 1856-60

First rates of 110 guns (three-deckers)

• Queen class (Symonds & Edye) 3-decker 110 guns
  • Queen
    HMS Queen (1839)
    HMS Queen was a 110-gun first rate ship of the line of the Royal Navy, launched on 15 May 1839 at Portsmouth. She was initially ordered in 1827 under the name Royal Frederick, but was renamed on 12 April 1839 while still on the stocks in honour of the recently enthroned Queen Victoria...
    
     116 (1839) – ex-Royal Frederick, laid down 1833, converted to screw 2-decker 1858-9
  • Victoria
    HMS Windsor Castle (1858)
    HMS Windsor Castle was a triple-decker, 102-gun first-rate Royal Navy ship of the line. She was renamed HMS Cambridge in 1869, when she replaced a ship of the same name as gunnery ship off Plymouth.-Early life:...
    
     116 (1858) – laid down 1844, renamed Windsor Castle 1855, converted to screw 1857-8
  • Frederick William 116 (1860) – ex-Royal Frederick, laid down 1841, converted to screw 2-decker 1859-60
  • Algiers – ordered 1833, but not begun, cancelled 11 Dec 1834.
  • Royal Sovereign – ordered 1832, probably not begun, cancelled 1838.

Second rates of 90 guns (two-deckers)

• Albion class (Symonds & Edye)
  • Albion
    HMS Albion (1842)
    HMS Albion was a 90-gun second rate ship of the line of the Royal Navy. Ordered in 1839, she was built at Plymouth and launched on 6 September 1842, and entered service in 1843. Albion was designed by Sir William Symonds, was the only ship of her class to ever serve as a sailing ship, and the last...
    
     90 (1842) – laid down 1839. A design error led to the main deck in Albion being unusually low. converted to screw 1860-1
  • Aboukir 91 (1848) – laid down 1840, converted to screw 1856-8
  • Exmouth
    HMS Exmouth (1854)
    HMS Exmouth was a 91-gun screw propelled Albion-class second-rate ship of the line of the Royal Navy.-Design:Exmouth was ordered as a 90-gun sailing ship from Plymouth Dockyard in 1841, but was ordered to be converted to operate under steam propulsion on 30 October 1852. The conversion began on 20...
    
     91 (1854) – laid down 1841, converted to screw 1853-4
  • Saint Jean D'Acre – ordered 1844 but not begun, cancelled 1845
  • Hannibal – ordered 1839, probably not begun, cancelled 1846
• Princess Royal class (Edye) modified Albion class
  • Princess Royal 91 (1853) – laid down 1841, converted to screw 1853
  • Hannibal
    HMS Hannibal (1854)
    HMS Hannibal was originally planned as a 90-gun second rate ship of the line, to be built at Woolwich Dockyard. She was ordered on 14 May 1840, but cancelled and re-ordered. This ship was also named HMS Hannibal, and utilised the new screw propulsion technology. She was a 91-gun second rate,...
    
     91 (1854) – laid down 1848, converted to screw 1854
• Algiers class (Edye or Committee of Reference) modified Albion class
  • Algiers 91 (1854) – laid down 1848, converted to screw 1852-4
• Caesar class (Committee of Reference) modified Rodney class
  • Caesar 91 (1853) – laid down 1848, converted to screw 1852-3

Second rates of 80 guns (two-deckers)

• Vanguard class (Symonds & Edye)
  • Vanguard
    HMS Vanguard (1835)
    The sixth HMS Vanguard, of the British Royal Navy was an 78-gun second-rate ship of the line, launched on 25 August 1835 at Pembroke Yard. She was the first of a new type of sailing battleship: a Symondite.-Construction:...
    
     78 (1835) – laid down 1833, broken up 1875
  • Goliath
    HMS Goliath (1842)
    HMS Goliath was an 80-gun two-deck second rate ship of the line of the Royal Navy, launched on 25 July 1842 at Chatham Dockyard.Goliath was fitted with screw propulsion in 1857. In 1870, she was converted into a pauper training ship for workhouse boys. Goliath was destroyed by fire on 22 December...
    
     80 (1842) – laid down 1834, converted to screw 1856-7
  • Superb
    HMS Superb (1842)
    HMS Superb was a two-deck 80-gun second rate ship of the line of the Royal Navy, launched on 6 September 1842 at Pembroke Dockyard.She was one of the Vanguard class, designed by Sir William Symonds, Surveyor of the Navy and an innovative and controversial naval architect...
    
     80 (1842) – laid down 1838, lent as accommodation ship for Turkish naval crews of ships building on the Thames 1864, by 1866 returned to ordinary reserve, broken up 1869
  • Meeanee
    HMS Meeanee (1848)
    HMS Meeanee was a two-deck 80-gun second rate ship of the line of the Royal Navy, launched on 11 November 1842 at Bombay Dockyard. She was named after the Battle of Meeanee.Meeanee was fitted with screw propulsion in 1857, and was broken up in 1906....
    
     60 (1848) – ex-Madras, laid down 1841, converted to screw 1852-3
  • Collingwood
    HMS Collingwood (1841)
    HMS Collingwood was an 80-gun two-deck second rate ship of the line of the Royal Navy, launched on 17 August 1841 at Pembroke Dockyard.She was fitted with screw propulsion in 1861, and sold out of the navy in 1867.-References:...
    
     80 (1841) – laid down 1835, converted to screw 1860-1
  • Centurion
    HMS Centurion (1844)
    HMS Centurion was a two-deck 80-gun second rate ship of the line of the Royal Navy, launched on 2 May 1844 at Pembroke Dockyard.In 1855 she was fitted with screw propulsion. Centurion was sold out of the navy in 1870....
    
     80 (1844) – laid down 1839, converted to screw 1854-5
  • Mars
    HMS Mars (1848)
    HMS Mars was a two-deck 80-gun second rate ship of the line of the Royal Navy, launched on 1 July 1848 at Chatham Dockyard.She served as a supply carrier in the Crimean War, and was fitted with screw propulsion in 1855. She then saw service in the Mediterranean. In 1869 she was moored in the River...
    
     80 (1848) – laid down 18395, converted to screw 1855-6
  • Lion
    HMS Lion (1847)
    HMS Lion was a two-deck 80-gun second rate ship of the line of the Royal Navy, launched on 29 July 1847 at Pembroke Dockyard.She was fitted with screw propulsion in 1859, and was sold out of the navy in 1905....
    
     80 (1847) – laid down 1840, converted to screw 1858-9
  • Majestic
    HMS Majestic (1853)
    HMS Majestic was the second ship to bear the name. She was an 80-gun second rate ship of the line, built at Chatham Dockyard and launched on 1 December 1853. She spent 12 years on the stocks beforehand. She was fitted with screw propulsion and eventually broken up in 1868 after 35 years in service....
    
     80 (1853) – laid down 1841, converted to screw 1852-3
  • Colossus
    HMS Colossus (1848)
    HMS Colossus was a two-deck 80-gun second rate ship of the line of the Royal Navy, launched on 1 June 1848 at Pembroke Dockyard.Colossus was fitted with screw propulsion in 1864, and was sold out of the navy in 1867....
    
     80 (1848) – laid down 1843, converted to screw 1854-5
  • Irresistible 80 (1859) – laid down 1849, converted to screw 1855-9
• Modified Vanguard class (Admiralty alteration of Symonds & Edye design)
  • Brunswick 80 (1855) – laid down 1847, converted to screw 1854-5

• Orion class (Edye & Watts)
  • Orion
    HMS Orion (1854)
    HMS Orion was a 91-gun screw ship launched in 1854 and second of six ships of the same name.-History:She was commanded from this time through to late 1857 by Captain John Elphinstone Erskine; including the 23 Apr 1856 Fleet Review at Spithead. and saw service during the Baltic war against Russia in...
    
     80 (1854) – laid down 1850, converted to screw 91-guns 1852-4
  • Hood 80 (1859) – laid down 1849, converted to screw 91-guns 1856-9
  • Edgar 80 (-) never laid down

• Sans Pareil class – lines of ex-French Sans Pareil captured in 1795, though structurally different
  • Sans Pareil
    HMS Sans Pareil (1851)
    HMS Sans Pareil was a 70-gun screw propelled ship of the line of the Royal Navy.-Planning and construction:Sans Pareil was initially designed as an 80-gun second rate, to the lines of the earlier HMS Sans Pareil, a French prize captured in 1794. She was ordered on 27 February 1843 and laid down on...
    
     80 (1851) – laid down 1845, converted to screw 70-guns 1849-51

Third rates of 70 guns (two-deckers)

• Boscawen class (Symonds & Edye)
  • Boscawen 70 (1844) – built from frames originally made for another ship, drill ship at Southampton 1862, to the Tyne as a hulk 1874 and renamed Wellesley, burnt and broken up 1914
  • Cumberland
    HMS Cumberland (1842)
    HMS Cumberland was a 70-gun third rate ship of the line of the Royal Navy, launched on 21 October 1842 at Chatham Dockyard.She carried a crew of 620 men. In March 1854 she sailed to the Baltic Sea as war with Russia was imminent . Cumberland was involved in the attack on Bomarsund, Finland in...
    
     70 (1842) – laid down 1836, sheer hulk at Sheerness 1863, training ship in the Clyde for the Clyde Industrial Training Ship Association 1869, destroyed by fire 1889

List of unarmoured steam ships-of-the-line of the Royal Navy (1847-61)

Ships have been listed by class as in Lambert.

Ships converted to steam ships-of-the-line

• Duke of Wellington class 3-deckers, 131 guns
  • Duke of Wellington 131 (1852) – ex-Windsor Castle, laid down 1849, converted to screw 1852, receiving ship Portsmouth 1863, sold 1902 for broken up
  • Marlborough
    HMS Marlborough (1855)
    HMS Marlborough was a first-rate three-decker 131 gun screw ship built for the Royal Navy in 1855. She was begun as a sailing ship of the line , but was completed to a modified design and converted to steam on the stocks.She served as flagship of the Mediterranean Fleet from 1858-64 HMS...
    
     131 (1855) – laid down 1850, converted to screw 1853-5, receiving ship Portsmouth 1878, renamed Vernon II 1904, sold 1824, capsized off Brighton while on tow to the breakers Oct 1924
  • Royal Sovereign
    HMS Royal Sovereign (1857)
    HMS Royal Sovereign was originally laid down as a 120-gun first-rate ship of the line of the Royal Navy. She would have mounted sixteen cannon, 114 guns, and a pivot gun. With the rise of steam and screw propulsion, she was ordered to be converted on the stocks to a 131-gun screw ship, with...
    
     121 (1857) – laid down 1849, converted to screw 1855-57, converted to turret ship 1864, sold for breaking 1885
  • Prince of Wales
    HMS Prince of Wales (1860)
    HMS Prince of Wales was one of six 121-gun screw-propelled first-rate three-decker line-of-battle ships of the Royal Navy. She was launched on 25 January 1860...
    
     121 (1860) – laid down 1848, converted to screw 1856-60, renamed Britannia to replace original ship of that name as training ship for boys in the river Dart 1869, hulked 1909, sold for breaking 1914

• Royal Albert class (Lang) 3-decker, 121 guns
  • Royal Albert
    HMS Royal Albert (1854)
    HMS Royal Albert was a 121 gun three-decker ship of the Royal Navy launched in 1854 at Woolwich Dockyard. She had originally been designed as a sailing ship but was converted to screw propulsion while still under construction....
    
     121 (1854) – laid down 1844, converted to screw 1852-4, sold 1883 for broken up

• Windsor Castle class 3-decker, 102 guns, laid down as Queen class 116 guns
  • Windsor Castle
    HMS Windsor Castle (1858)
    HMS Windsor Castle was a triple-decker, 102-gun first-rate Royal Navy ship of the line. She was renamed HMS Cambridge in 1869, when she replaced a ship of the same name as gunnery ship off Plymouth.-Early life:...
    
     102 (1858) – ex-Victoria, laid down 1844, converted to screw 1857-8, no sea-service, renamed Cambridge and hulked as gunnery training ship Devonport 1869, sold 1908

• Orion class 2-deckers, 91 guns, laid down as 80 gun ships
  • Orion
    HMS Orion (1854)
    HMS Orion was a 91-gun screw ship launched in 1854 and second of six ships of the same name.-History:She was commanded from this time through to late 1857 by Captain John Elphinstone Erskine; including the 23 Apr 1856 Fleet Review at Spithead. and saw service during the Baltic war against Russia in...
    
     91 (1854) – broken up 1867
  • Hood 91 (1859) – sold 1888/1904
  • Edgar 80 (-) – never laid down

• Caesar class 2-decker, 91 guns
  • Caesar 91 (1853) – sold 1870

• Algiers class 2-decker, 91 guns, improved Albion class
  • Algiers 91 (1854) – sold 1870

• Princess Royal class 2-deckers, 91 guns, laid down as Albion class
  • Princess Royal 91 (1853) – sold 1872
  • Hannibal
    HMS Hannibal (1854)
    HMS Hannibal was originally planned as a 90-gun second rate ship of the line, to be built at Woolwich Dockyard. She was ordered on 14 May 1840, but cancelled and re-ordered. This ship was also named HMS Hannibal, and utilised the new screw propulsion technology. She was a 91-gun second rate,...
    
     91 (1854) – sold 1904

• Rodney class 2-deckers, 91 guns
  • Rodney
    HMS Rodney (1833)
    HMS Rodney was a two-deck 90-gun second rate ship of the line of the Royal Navy, launched on 18 June 1833 at Pembroke Dockyard.Rodney was the ship where William Hall , later to become the first Black man and one of the first Canadians to win the Victoria Cross, began his naval career in 1852.Rodney...
    
     91 (1833) – converted to screw 1860, broken up 1882
  • Nile 91 (1839) – converted to screw 1854, burnt 1956
  • London
    HMS London (1840)
    HMS London was a two-decker 90-gun second rate ship of the line of the Royal Navy, launched on 28 September 1840 at Chatham Dockyard.In 1854, London took part in the bombardment of Fort Constantine at Sevastopol during the Crimean War, where she sustained damage.In 1858 she was converted to screw...
    
     91 (1840) – converted to screw 1858, sold 1884

• Nelson class 2-decker, 91 guns, originally Nelson class 3-decker 120 guns
  • Nelson
    HMS Nelson (1814)
    HMS Nelson was a 126-gun first rate ship of the line of the Royal Navy, launched on 4 July 1814 at Woolwich.She was converted into a screw ship in 1860, being cut down to a two decker and fitted with an engine of 2,102 ihp for a speed of ....
    
     91 (1814) – laid down as 120-gunner. Converted to steam and cut down to 2-decker 1859-60. Fitted as schoolship for New South Wales 1867. Sold 1898. Broken up 1928. No service as sail or steam line-of-battle ship

• Royal George class 2-deckers, 89 guns, originally Caledonia class 3-decker 120 guns
  • Prince Regent
    HMS Prince Regent (1823)
    HMS Prince Regent was a 120-gun first rate three-decker ship of the line of the Royal Navy, launched on 12 April 1823 at Chatham.She was converted into a screw ship in 1861, and was broken up in 1873....
    
     89 (1823) – cut down to 92-gun 2-decker 1841-7, converted to screw 1860-61, broken up 1873
  • Royal George
    HMS Royal George
    Eight ships of the Royal Navy have been named HMS Royal George after various members of the House of Hanover. A ninth was renamed before being launched:* HMS Royal George was a 100-gun first-rate ship of the line launched as HMS Royal James in 1675...
    
     89 (1827) – converted to steam 120-gun 3-decker 1852-53, poop and forecastle removed December 1854, making her 102-gun 3-decker, cut down to 89-gun 2-decker 1860, sold 1875

• Saint George class 2-deckers, 89 guns, originally broadened Caledonia class 3-decker 120 guns
  • St George
    HMS St George (1840)
    HMS St George was a 120-gun first rate ship of the line of the Royal Navy, launched on 27 August 1840 at Plymouth.She was fitted with screw propulsion in 1859, and was sold out of the service in 1883....
    
     89 (1840) – sold 1883
  • Royal William
    HMS Royal William (1833)
    HMS Royal William was a 120-gun first rate ship of the line of the Royal Navy, launched on 2 April 1833 at Pembroke Dock.She was fitted with screw propulsion in 1860, and was destroyed by fire in 1899....
    
     89 (1833) – burnt 1899
  • Neptune 89 (1827) – sold 1875
  • Waterloo
    HMS Waterloo (1833)
    HMS Waterloo was a 120-gun first rate ship of the line of the Royal Navy, launched on 10 June 1833 at Chatham.Waterloo was cut down to an 89-gun 2-decker and converted to steam at Chatham 1 April 1859—12 December 1859. Following the loss of the modern 101-gun steam 2-decker Conqueror in 1861,...
    
     120 (1833) – converted 1859, renamed Conqueror 1862, renamed Warspite 1877 and served as a training ship at Greenhithe/Woolwich. Burnt 1918.
  • Trafalgar
    HMS Trafalgar (1841)
    HMS Trafalgar was a 120-gun first rate ship of the line of the Royal Navy, launched on 21 June 1841 at Woolwich Dockyard. She was the last to be completed of the successful Caledonia class....
    
     91 (1841) – sold 1906

• Albion class 2-deckers, 91 guns, originally Albion class 2-deckers 90 guns
  • Albion
    HMS Albion (1842)
    HMS Albion was a 90-gun second rate ship of the line of the Royal Navy. Ordered in 1839, she was built at Plymouth and launched on 6 September 1842, and entered service in 1843. Albion was designed by Sir William Symonds, was the only ship of her class to ever serve as a sailing ship, and the last...
    
     91 (1842) – converted to screw 1861, broken up 1884
  • Aboukir 91 (1848) – sold 1878
  • Exmouth
    HMS Exmouth (1854)
    HMS Exmouth was a 91-gun screw propelled Albion-class second-rate ship of the line of the Royal Navy.-Design:Exmouth was ordered as a 90-gun sailing ship from Plymouth Dockyard in 1841, but was ordered to be converted to operate under steam propulsion on 30 October 1852. The conversion began on 20...
    
     91 (1854) – sold 1905

• Queen class 2-deckers, 86 guns, originally Queen class 3-decker 120 guns
  • Queen
    HMS Queen (1839)
    HMS Queen was a 110-gun first rate ship of the line of the Royal Navy, launched on 15 May 1839 at Portsmouth. She was initially ordered in 1827 under the name Royal Frederick, but was renamed on 12 April 1839 while still on the stocks in honour of the recently enthroned Queen Victoria...
    
     86 (1839) – converted to screw 2-decker 1858-9, broken up 1871
  • Frederick William 86 (1860) – converted to screw 2-decker 1859-60, renamed Worcester 1876 and became training ship at Greenhithe for the Thames Marine Officers Training Society, sold 1948, foundered 1948, raised and broken up 1953

• Cressy class 2-decker, 80 guns
  • Cressy 80 (1853) – sold 1867

• Majestic class 2-deckers, 80 guns, originally Vanguard class 2-deckers 80 guns
  • Goliath
    HMS Goliath (1842)
    HMS Goliath was an 80-gun two-deck second rate ship of the line of the Royal Navy, launched on 25 July 1842 at Chatham Dockyard.Goliath was fitted with screw propulsion in 1857. In 1870, she was converted into a pauper training ship for workhouse boys. Goliath was destroyed by fire on 22 December...
    
     80 (1842) – converted to screw 1857, burnt 1875
  • Collingwood
    HMS Collingwood (1841)
    HMS Collingwood was an 80-gun two-deck second rate ship of the line of the Royal Navy, launched on 17 August 1841 at Pembroke Dockyard.She was fitted with screw propulsion in 1861, and sold out of the navy in 1867.-References:...
    
     80 (1841) – converted to screw 1861, sold 1867
  • Centurion
    HMS Centurion (1844)
    HMS Centurion was a two-deck 80-gun second rate ship of the line of the Royal Navy, launched on 2 May 1844 at Pembroke Dockyard.In 1855 she was fitted with screw propulsion. Centurion was sold out of the navy in 1870....
    
     80 (1844) – converted to screw 1855/56, sold 1870
  • Mars
    HMS Mars (1848)
    HMS Mars was a two-deck 80-gun second rate ship of the line of the Royal Navy, launched on 1 July 1848 at Chatham Dockyard.She served as a supply carrier in the Crimean War, and was fitted with screw propulsion in 1855. She then saw service in the Mediterranean. In 1869 she was moored in the River...
    
     80 (1848) – converted to screw 1855, sold 1929
  • Lion
    HMS Lion (1847)
    HMS Lion was a two-deck 80-gun second rate ship of the line of the Royal Navy, launched on 29 July 1847 at Pembroke Dockyard.She was fitted with screw propulsion in 1859, and was sold out of the navy in 1905....
    
     80 (1847) – converted to screw 1859, sold 1905
  • Majestic
    HMS Majestic (1853)
    HMS Majestic was the second ship to bear the name. She was an 80-gun second rate ship of the line, built at Chatham Dockyard and launched on 1 December 1853. She spent 12 years on the stocks beforehand. She was fitted with screw propulsion and eventually broken up in 1868 after 35 years in service....
    
     80 (1853) – broken up 1868
  • Meeanee
    HMS Meeanee (1848)
    HMS Meeanee was a two-deck 80-gun second rate ship of the line of the Royal Navy, launched on 11 November 1842 at Bombay Dockyard. She was named after the Battle of Meeanee.Meeanee was fitted with screw propulsion in 1857, and was broken up in 1906....
    
     80 (1848) – laid down as Madras 80. Converted to screw 1857, broken up 1906
  • Colossus
    HMS Colossus (1848)
    HMS Colossus was a two-deck 80-gun second rate ship of the line of the Royal Navy, launched on 1 June 1848 at Pembroke Dockyard.Colossus was fitted with screw propulsion in 1864, and was sold out of the navy in 1867....
    
     80 (1848) – converted to screw 1854, sold 1867
  • Brunswick 80 (1855) – sold 1867
  • Irresistible 80 (1859) – sold 1894

• Bombay class 2-decker, 80 guns, ex-Canopus class
  • Bombay
    HMS Bombay (1828)
    HMS Bombay was an 84-gun second rate ship of the line of the Royal Navy, launched on 17 February 1828 at Bombay Dockyard.She was fitted with screw propulsion in 1861. Her efficient ventilation system spread a fire of unknown origin during target practice near Flores Island in the River Plate on 14...
    
     84 (1828) – converted to screw 1861, burnt 1864

• Sans Pareil class 2-decker, 80 guns
  • Sans Pareil
    HMS Sans Pareil (1851)
    HMS Sans Pareil was a 70-gun screw propelled ship of the line of the Royal Navy.-Planning and construction:Sans Pareil was initially designed as an 80-gun second rate, to the lines of the earlier HMS Sans Pareil, a French prize captured in 1794. She was ordered on 27 February 1843 and laid down on...
    
     80 (1851) – completed as 70-gun screw warship, sold 1867

• Blenheim class 2-deckers, 60 guns blockships, ex-74s
  • Ajax
    HMS Ajax (1809)
    HMS Ajax was a 74-gun third rate ship of the line of the Royal Navy, launched on 2 May 1809 at Blackwall Yard.She was converted to a blockship with screw propulsion for coastal defence in 1846....
    
     60 (1809) – ex-74, converted to 60-gun screw blockship, 1847, broken up 1864
  • Blenheim
    HMS Blenheim (1813)
    HMS Blenheim was a 74-gun third rate ship of the line of the Royal Navy, launched on 31 May 1813 at Deptford Dockyard.She was placed on harbour service in 1831. In 1854/5 she saw service in the Baltic as a 60-gun steam screw...
    
     60 (1813) – ex-74, converted to 60-gun screw blockship 1847, hulked at Portsmouth, broken up 1865
  • Edinburgh
    HMS Edinburgh (1811)
    HMS Edinburgh was a 74-gun third rate ship of the line of the Royal Navy, launched on 26 November 1811 at Rotherhithe.Between 1837 and 1841 she served in the Mediterranean, including operations off the coast of Syria and Lebanon in the Syrian War. In 1846 she was taken in hand at Portsmouth...
    
     60 (1811) – ex-74, converted to 60-gun screw blockship 1852, sold 1866
  • Hogue
    HMS Hogue (1811)
    HMS Hogue was a 74-gun third-rate ship of the line of the Royal Navy, launched on 3 October 1811 at Deptford.During the War of 1812, while under the command of Thomas Bladen Capel, the HMS Hogue successfully trapped the American Privateer Young Teazer of the coast of Nova Scotia, Canada.She was...
    
     60 (1811) – ex-74, converted to 60-gun screw blockship 1848, broken up 1865

• Cornwallis class 2-deckers, 60 guns blockships, ex-74s
  • Cornwallis
    HMS Cornwallis (1813)
    HMS Cornwallis was a 74-gun third rate ship of the line of the Royal Navy, launched on 12 May 1813 at Bombay. She was built of teak. The capture of Java by USS Constitution delayed the completion of Cornwallis as Java had been bringing her copper sheathing from England.On 27 April 1815, Cornwallis...
    
     60 (1813) – ex-74, converted to 60-gun screw blockship 1854-55, hulked as a jetty at Sheerness 1865, renamed Wildfire 1916 as base ship, broken up 1957
  • Hastings
    HMS Hastings (1819)
    HMS Hastings was a 74-gun third rate ship of the line of the Royal Navy. She was built in Calcutta for the Honourable East India Company, but purchased by the Royal Navy on 22 June 1819....
    
     60 (1819) – ex-74, purchased from East India Company in 1819, converted to 60-gun screw blockship 1855, Coastguard 1857, coal hulk 1870, sold 1885
  • Hawke
    HMS Hawke (1820)
    HMS Hawke was a 74-gun third rate ship of the line of the Black Prince class of the Royal Navy, launched on 16 March 1820 at Woolwich Dockyard....
    
     60 (1820) – ex-74, converted to 60-gun screw blockship 1854-55, broken up 1865
  • Pembroke
    HMS Pembroke (1812)
    HMS Pembroke was a 74-gun third rate ship of the line of the Royal Navy, launched on 27 June 1812 at Blackwall Yard.She was fitted with screw propulsion in 1855, transferred to the Coastguard in 1858, and used as a base ship from 1887....
    
     60 (1812) – ex-74, converted to 60-gun screw blockship 1855, hulked as base ship Chatham 1873, renamed Forte 1890 as receiving hulk, then Pembroke again 1891, sold 1905
  • Russell
    HMS Russell (1822)
    HMS Russell was a 74-gun third rate ship of the line of the Royal Navy, launched on 22 May 1822 at Deptford.She was fitted with screw propulsion in 1855, and was broken up in 1865....
    
     60 (1822) – ex-74, converted to 60-gun screw blockship 1854-55, coastguard ship Sheerness 1858, broken up 1865

Ships laid down as steam ships-of-the-line

• Victoria class, 3-deckers, 121 guns
  • Victoria
    HMS Victoria (1859)
    HMS Victoria was the last British wooden first-rate three-decked ship of the line commissioned for sea service.With a displacement of 6,959 tons, she was the largest wooden battleship which ever entered service...
    
     121 (1859) – sold 1892
  • Howe
    HMS Howe (1860)
    HMS Howe was built as a 121-gun screw first-rate ship of the line of the Royal Navy. She and her sister HMS Victoria were the first and only British three-decker ships of the line to be designed from the start for screw propulsion, but the Howe was never completed for sea service as she had...
    
     110 (1860) – renamed Impregnable. sold 1921

• Saint Jean D'Acre class 2-decker, 101 guns
  • St Jean d'Acre
    HMS St Jean d'Acre (1853)
    HMS St Jean d'Acre was the Royal Navy's first 101 gun screw two-decker line-of-battle ship. She served in the Crimean War.The St Jean d'Acre was a Surveyor's Department design. The design was approved on 15 February 1851, and she was ordered the same day. Her keel was laid down at Devonport...
    
     101 (1853) – sold 1875

• Conqueror class
  Conqueror class ship of the line
  The Conqueror-class ships of the line were a class of two 101-gun first rate screw propelled ships designed by the Surveyor’s Department for the Royal Navy.-Design:...
  
   2-deckers, 101 guns
  • Conqueror
    HMS Conqueror (1855)
    HMS Conqueror was a a 101-gun Conqueror class screw propelled first-rate ship of the line of the Royal Navy. She was launched in 1855, but spent only six years in service before being wrecked on Rum Cay in the Bahamas in 1861....
    
     101 (1855) – wrecked 1861
  • Donegal
    HMS Donegal (1858)
    HMS Donegal was a 101-gun screw-driven first-rate ship of the line of the Royal Navy, launched on 23 September 1858 at Devonport Dockyard....
    
     101 (1858) – renamed Vernon 1886, sold 1925

• Duncan class 2-deckers, 101 guns
  • Duncan 101 (1859) – sold 1910
  • Gibraltar 101 (1860) – renamed Grampian 1888, sold 1899

• Agamemnon class 2-decker, 91 guns
  • Agamemnon
    HMS Agamemnon (1852)
    HMS Agamemnon was a Royal Navy 91-gun battleship ordered by the Admiralty in 1849 in response to the perceived threat from France by their possession of ships of the Napoléon class...
    
     91 (1852) – sold 1870

• James Watt class 2-deckers, 91 guns
  • James Watt
    HMS James Watt
    HMS James Watt was a 91-gun steam and sail-powered second rate ship of the line. She had originally been ordered as one of a two ship class, with her sister , under the name HMS Audacious. She was renamed on 18 November 1847 in honour of James Watt, the inventor of the steam engine. She was the...
    
     91 (1853) – sold 1875
  • Victor Emanuel 91 (1855) – ex-Repulse. sold 1899
  • Edgar
    HMS Edgar
    Eight ships of the British Royal Navy have been named HMS Edgar., a 70-gun third-rate launched in 1668, rebuilt in 1700, and destroyed in an accidental fire 1711., a 60-gun fourth-rate launched in 1758 and sunk as a breakwater in 1774., a 74-gun third-rate launched in 1779, converted to a prison...
    
     91 (1858)
  • Hero
    HMS Hero
    Six Royal Navy ships have been called HMS Hero:, a 74-gun third-rate launched in 1759, a prison ship after 1793, renamed Rochester in 1800, and broken up 1810., a 74-gun third-rate launched in 1803 and wrecked on 25 December 1811, with the loss of all her crew, inside the northern Haaks about five...
    
     91 (1858) – sold 1871

• Renown class 2-deckers, 91 guns
  • Revenge 91 (1859) – broken up 1923
  • Renown 91 (1857) – sold 1870
  • Atlas
    HMS Atlas (1860)
    HMS Atlas was a 91-gun second rate ship which was never completed and spent her entire service in reserve or as a hospital ship. She was launched in 1860 and lent to the Metropolitan Asylums Board for use as a hospital ship in 1881 and sold to them in 1885. Atlas served until 1904, when she was...
    
     91 (1860) – broken up 1904
  • Anson 91 (1860) – broken up 1904

• Defiance class 2-decker, 91 guns
  • Defiance
    HMS Defiance (1861)
    HMS Defiance was the last wooden line-of-battle ship launched for the Royal Navy. She never saw service as a wooden line-of-battle ship. In 1884 she became a schoolship.- Design :...
    
     91 (1861) – sold 1931

• Bulwark class
  Bulwark class battleship (1859)
  The Bulwark class were the final class of wooden line-of-battle ships laid down for the Royal Navy. They were laid down after . In March 1861 their construction was suspended, and seven were later converted to iron-clads...
  
   2-deckers, 91 guns
  • Bulwark
    Bulwark class battleship (1859)
    The Bulwark class were the final class of wooden line-of-battle ships laid down for the Royal Navy. They were laid down after . In March 1861 their construction was suspended, and seven were later converted to iron-clads...
    
     91 (-) – suspended almost complete 1861, broken up 1873
  • Robust 91 (-) – laid down as Duncan class, suspended almost complete 1861, broken up 1872
  • Repulse
    HMS Repulse (1868)
    HMS Repulse was the last wooden battleship constructed for the Royal Navy.She was laid down as a 90-gun second-rate line-of-battle ship with two decks; having been approved for conversion to a broadside ironclad in 1861, work on her was intentionally delayed until the performance of earlier...
    
     – ordered to be converted to ironclad 1866
  • Zealous
    HMS Zealous (1864)
    HMS Zealous was one of the three ships forming the second group of wooden steam battleships selected in 1860 for conversion to ironclads. This was done in response to the perceived threat to Britain offered by the large French ironclad building programme...
    
     – ordered to be converted to ironclad 1864
  • Royal Alfred
    HMS Royal Alfred (1864)
    HMS Royal Alfred was a broadside ironclad frigate of the Victorian era, serving with the Royal Navy. She was half-sister to and .In 1861, in response to the French warship building programme initiated by Emperor Napoleon III, the British Board of Admiralty selected seven wooden two-decked...
    
     – ordered to be converted to ironclad 1861
  • Royal Oak
    HMS Royal Oak (1862)
    HMS Royal Oak was the first ship of the Prince Consort class, and is sometimes described as a half-sister to the other three ships.In common with the others of her class, she started life as a wooden two-decked second-rate line-of-battle ship of 91 guns...
    
     – ordered to be converted to ironclad as half-sister of Prince Consort class
    Prince Consort class battleship
    The Prince Consort class of battleship were four Royal Navy wooden-hulled broadside ironclads: HMS Royal Oak, HMS Prince Consort, HMS Ocean, and HMS Caledonia. They were originally laid down as Bulwark-class battleships, but were converted to ironclads...
    
     1861
  • Triumph
    HMS Prince Consort (1862)
    HMS Prince Consort was laid down at Pembroke as the 91-gun second rate battleship HMS Triumph, but her name was changed in February 1862 in memory of the recently deceased Prince Albert of Saxe-Coburg and Gotha....
    
     – ordered to be converted to Prince Consort class ironclad
    Prince Consort class battleship
    The Prince Consort class of battleship were four Royal Navy wooden-hulled broadside ironclads: HMS Royal Oak, HMS Prince Consort, HMS Ocean, and HMS Caledonia. They were originally laid down as Bulwark-class battleships, but were converted to ironclads...
    
     1861 and completed as Prince Consort
  • Ocean
    HMS Ocean (1862)
    HMS Ocean was the last of the Royal Navy's three s to be completed in the mid-1860s. She was originally laid down as a 91-gun second-rate ship of the line, and was converted during construction to an armoured frigate. The ship spent the bulk of her career on the China Station and served as flagship...
    
     – ordered to be converted to Prince Consort class ironclad
    Prince Consort class battleship
    The Prince Consort class of battleship were four Royal Navy wooden-hulled broadside ironclads: HMS Royal Oak, HMS Prince Consort, HMS Ocean, and HMS Caledonia. They were originally laid down as Bulwark-class battleships, but were converted to ironclads...
    
     1861
  • Caledonia
    HMS Caledonia (1862)
    HMS Caledonia was a broadside ironclad of the Prince Consort class.Originally laid down as two-decker steam ship of the line of the Bulwark class, HMS Caledonia, HMS Triumph and were converted on the building stocks to armoured frigates.The three ships of the Prince Consort class were intended to...
    
     – ordered to be converted to Prince Consort class ironclad
    Prince Consort class battleship
    The Prince Consort class of battleship were four Royal Navy wooden-hulled broadside ironclads: HMS Royal Oak, HMS Prince Consort, HMS Ocean, and HMS Caledonia. They were originally laid down as Bulwark-class battleships, but were converted to ironclads...
    
     1861
  • Blake – ordered but never laid down. Cancelled 1863.
  • Kent – ordered but never laid down. Cancelled 1863.
  • Pitt – ordered but never laid down. Cancelled 1863.

Sea-going ironclads (1860–1882)

• Warrior class
  Warrior class battleship
  The Warrior class ironclads were a class of two warships built for the Royal Navy between 1859 and 1862, the first ocean-going ironclads with iron hulls ever constructed. The ships were designed as armoured frigates in response to an invasion scare sparked by the launch of the and her three...
  
   broadside ironclads
  • Warrior
    HMS Warrior (1860)
    HMS Warrior was the first iron-hulled, armour-plated warship, built for the Royal Navy in response to the first ironclad warship, the French Gloire, launched a year earlier....
    
     (1860) – preserved Portsmouth
  • Black Prince
    HMS Black Prince (1861)
    HMS Black Prince was the third ship of that name to serve with the Royal Navy. She was the world's second ocean-going, iron-hulled, armoured warship, following her sister ship, . For a brief period the two s were the most powerful warships in the world, being virtually impregnable to the naval guns...
    
     (1861) – renamed Emerald 1903, renamed Impregnable III 1910, sold for breaking 1923
• Defence class
  Defence class battleship
  The Defence class of ironclad battleships were the class which historically immediately followed the first two British ironclads, and HMS Black Prince. The class consisted of two ships, and .-Background:...
  
   broadside ironclads
  • Defence
    HMS Defence (1861)
    HMS Defence was the lead ship of the armoured frigates ordered by the Royal Navy in 1859. Upon completion in 1862 she was assigned to the Channel Fleet. The ship was paid off in 1866 to refit and be re-armed and was briefly reassigned to the Channel Fleet again when she recommissioned in 1868...
    
     (1861)
  • Resistance
    HMS Resistance (1861)
    HMS Resistance was the second and last ship of the Defence class to be commissioned. She served in the English Channel from 1862 to 1864, and was then posted to the Mediterranean, where she was the first British ironclad to see service...
    
     (1861)
• Hector class
  Hector class battleship
  The Hector class battleships, and , laid down in 1861, were the class which immediately followed the Defence class into service with the Royal Navy....
  
   broadside ironclads
  • Hector
    HMS Hector (1862)
    HMS Hector was the lead ship of the armoured frigates ordered by the Royal Navy in 1861. Upon completion in 1864 she was assigned to the Channel Fleet. The ship was paid off in 1867 to refit and be re-armed. Upon recommissioning in 1868 she was assigned as the guard ship of the Fleet Reserve in...
    
     (1862)
  • Valiant
    HMS Valiant (1863)
    HMS Valiant was the second ship of the armoured frigates ordered by the Royal Navy in 1861. Her builders went bankrupt shortly after she was laid down, which significantly delayed her completion. After being launched in 1863, she waited a further five years to receive her guns due to supply issues...
    
     (1863)
• Achilles
  HMS Achilles (1863)
  The broadside ironclad HMS Achilles was the third member of the 1861 programme, was described as an armoured frigate, and was originally projected as a modified version of the earlier ....
  
   (1863) broadside ironclad
• Minotaur class
  Minotaur class battleship
  The Minotaur class armoured frigates were essentially enlarged versions of HMS Achilles with heavier armament and armour, and more powerful engines....
  
   broadside ironclads
  • Minotaur
    HMS Minotaur (1863)
    HMS Minotaur was the lead ship of the armoured frigates built for the Royal Navy during the 1860s. They were the longest single-screw warships ever built. Minotaur took nearly four years between her launching and commissioning because she was used for evaluations of her armament and different...
    
     (1863)
  • Agincourt
    HMS Agincourt (1865)
    HMS Agincourt was one of three Minotaur class ironclads, the sistership of HMS Minotaur and a near sister to HMS Northumberland...
    
     (1865)
  • Northumberland (1866)
• Prince Consort class
  Prince Consort class battleship
  The Prince Consort class of battleship were four Royal Navy wooden-hulled broadside ironclads: HMS Royal Oak, HMS Prince Consort, HMS Ocean, and HMS Caledonia. They were originally laid down as Bulwark-class battleships, but were converted to ironclads...
  
   broadside ironclads (converted from Bulwark class 2-deckers
  Bulwark class battleship (1859)
  The Bulwark class were the final class of wooden line-of-battle ships laid down for the Royal Navy. They were laid down after . In March 1861 their construction was suspended, and seven were later converted to iron-clads...
  
  )
  • Prince Consort
    HMS Prince Consort (1862)
    HMS Prince Consort was laid down at Pembroke as the 91-gun second rate battleship HMS Triumph, but her name was changed in February 1862 in memory of the recently deceased Prince Albert of Saxe-Coburg and Gotha....
    
     (1862) (ex-Triumph)
  • Caledonia
    HMS Caledonia (1862)
    HMS Caledonia was a broadside ironclad of the Prince Consort class.Originally laid down as two-decker steam ship of the line of the Bulwark class, HMS Caledonia, HMS Triumph and were converted on the building stocks to armoured frigates.The three ships of the Prince Consort class were intended to...
    
     (1862)
  • Ocean
    HMS Ocean (1862)
    HMS Ocean was the last of the Royal Navy's three s to be completed in the mid-1860s. She was originally laid down as a 91-gun second-rate ship of the line, and was converted during construction to an armoured frigate. The ship spent the bulk of her career on the China Station and served as flagship...
    
     (1862)
• Royal Oak
  HMS Royal Oak (1862)
  HMS Royal Oak was the first ship of the Prince Consort class, and is sometimes described as a half-sister to the other three ships.In common with the others of her class, she started life as a wooden two-decked second-rate line-of-battle ship of 91 guns...
  
   (1862) – broadside ironclad (converted from Bulwark class 2-decker
  Bulwark class battleship (1859)
  The Bulwark class were the final class of wooden line-of-battle ships laid down for the Royal Navy. They were laid down after . In March 1861 their construction was suspended, and seven were later converted to iron-clads...
  
  )
• Royal Alfred
  HMS Royal Alfred (1864)
  HMS Royal Alfred was a broadside ironclad frigate of the Victorian era, serving with the Royal Navy. She was half-sister to and .In 1861, in response to the French warship building programme initiated by Emperor Napoleon III, the British Board of Admiralty selected seven wooden two-decked...
  
   (1864) – central-battery ironclad (converted from Bulwark class 2-decker
  Bulwark class battleship (1859)
  The Bulwark class were the final class of wooden line-of-battle ships laid down for the Royal Navy. They were laid down after . In March 1861 their construction was suspended, and seven were later converted to iron-clads...
  
  )
• Research
  HMS Research (1863)
  HMS Research was a small ironclad warship, converted from a wooden-hulled sloop and intended as an experimental platform in which to try out new concepts in armament and in armour...
  
   (1863) – central-battery ironclad
• Enterprise
  HMS Enterprise (1864)
  The seventh HMS Enterprise of the Royal Navy was an armoured sloop launched in 1864 at Deptford Dockyard. Originally laid down as a wooden screw sloop of the Camelion class, she was redesigned by Edward Reed and completed as a central battery ironclad...
  
   (1864) – central-battery ironclad
• Favorite
  HMS Favorite (1864)
  HMS Favorite was one of the three wooden warships of moderate dimension selected by Sir Edward Reed for conversion to broadside ironclads in response to the increased tempo of French warship building....
  
   (1864) – central-battery ironclad
• Zealous
  HMS Zealous (1864)
  HMS Zealous was one of the three ships forming the second group of wooden steam battleships selected in 1860 for conversion to ironclads. This was done in response to the perceived threat to Britain offered by the large French ironclad building programme...
  
   (1864) – central-battery ironclad (converted from Bulwark class 2-decker
  Bulwark class battleship (1859)
  The Bulwark class were the final class of wooden line-of-battle ships laid down for the Royal Navy. They were laid down after . In March 1861 their construction was suspended, and seven were later converted to iron-clads...
  
  )
• Repulse
  HMS Repulse (1868)
  HMS Repulse was the last wooden battleship constructed for the Royal Navy.She was laid down as a 90-gun second-rate line-of-battle ship with two decks; having been approved for conversion to a broadside ironclad in 1861, work on her was intentionally delayed until the performance of earlier...
  
   (1868) – central-battery ironclad (converted from Bulwark class 2-decker
  Bulwark class battleship (1859)
  The Bulwark class were the final class of wooden line-of-battle ships laid down for the Royal Navy. They were laid down after . In March 1861 their construction was suspended, and seven were later converted to iron-clads...
  
  )
• Lord Clyde class
  Lord Clyde class battleship
  The Lord Clyde class battleships, which consisted of and , were wooden-hulled ironclad frigates, designed by Sir Edward Reed, and promoted by the Board of Admiralty for economic reasons, in order to make use of the large stocks of seasoned timber available in the shipyards.- Overview :The design...
  
   broadside ironclads
  • Lord Clyde
    HMS Lord Clyde (1864)
    HMS Lord Clyde was a wooden broadside ironclad built at Pembroke dockyard, a sister to HMS Lord Warden.-Design:Part of the genesis of her design and construction was the perception that this dockyard possessed a large surplus of seasoned timber, and the economic motive on the part of the Board of...
    
     (1864)
  • Lord Warden
    HMS Lord Warden (1865)
    HMS Lord Warden was the second and final ship to be completed of the Lord Clyde class.She was heavier than her sister, by about 360 tons; partly because she carried heavier machinery and was fitted with a poop, and partly because the wood used for the construction of Lord Clyde was, as it...
    
     (1865)
• Pallas
  HMS Pallas (1865)
  HMS Pallas was a purpose-built wooden-hulled ironclad of the Royal Navy, designed as a private venture by Sir Edward Reed, and accepted by the Board of Admiralty because, as an economy measure, they wished to use up the stocks of seasoned timber held in the Woolwich Dockyard...
  
   (1865) – central-battery ironclad
• Bellerophon
  HMS Bellerophon (1865)
  HMS Bellerophon was a central battery ironclad built for the Royal Navy in the mid-1860s.-Design and description:In this ship, designed by Sir Edward Reed, the power-to-weight ratio was increased; the long rows of guns on the broadside were replaced by a small number of guns, centrally placed, of...
  
   (1865) – central-battery ironclad
• Penelope
  HMS Penelope (1867)
  HMS Penelope was the last small ironclad to be commissioned in the Royal Navy.Because of the absence through illness of the Chief Constructor, Sir Edward Reed, the design of this ship was entrusted to his brother-in-law and the future Chief Constructor, Nathaniel Barnaby.-Design:She was...
  
   (1867) – central-battery ironclad
• Hercules
  HMS Hercules (1868)
  HMS Hercules was a central-battery ironclad of the Royal Navy in the Victorian era, and was the first warship to mount a main armament of calibre guns....
  
   (1868) – central-battery ironclad – sold for breaking 1932
• Monarch
  HMS Monarch (1868)
  HMS Monarch was the first sea-going warship to carry her guns in turrets, and the first British warship to carry guns of calibre.-Design:...
  
   (1868) – masted turret-ship
• Captain class
  HMS Captain (1869)
  HMS Captain was an unsuccessful warship built for the Royal Navy due to public pressure. She was a masted turret ship, designed and built by a private contractor against the wishes of the Controller's department...
  
   – masted turret-ship
  • Captain
    HMS Captain (1869)
    HMS Captain was an unsuccessful warship built for the Royal Navy due to public pressure. She was a masted turret ship, designed and built by a private contractor against the wishes of the Controller's department...
    
     (1869) – sank 1870
• Audacious class
  Audacious class battleship
  The Audacious class battleships were designed by Sir Edward Reed at the request of the Board of Admiralty to serve as second-class battleships on distant foreign stations.-Background and design:...
  
   central-battery ironclads
  • Audacious
    HMS Audacious (1869)
    HMS Audacious was the lead ship of the s built for the Royal Navy in the late 1860s. They were designed as second-class ironclads suitable for use on foreign stations and the ship spent the bulk of her career on the China Station. She was decommissioned in 1894 and hulked in 1902 for use as a...
    
     (1869)
  • Invincible
    HMS Invincible (1869)
    HMS Invincible was an Audacious-class ironclad battleship of the Royal Navy. She was built at the Napier shipyard and completed in 1870. Completed just 10 years after , she still carried sails as well as a steam engine.-Armament:...
    
     (1869)
  • Iron Duke
    HMS Iron Duke (1870)
    The first HMS Iron Duke was an iron Audacious-class central battery ironclad.She was originally to have been called HMS Duke but she was nicknamed Iron Duke during construction as she was armoured unlike many other vessels under construction. The phrase was already in circulation as it was a...
    
     (1870)
  • Vanguard
    HMS Vanguard (1869)
    The eighth HMS Vanguard of the British Royal Navy was an Audacious-class central-battery ironclad battleship, launched in 1870.Vanguard — under the command of Captain Richard Dawkins, sailed out of Kingstown harbour on 27 August 1875 in company with three other ironclads, , and...
    
     (1870)
• Swiftsure class
  Swiftsure class battleship (1870)
  The Swiftsure class battleships of the late Victorian era were broadside ironclads designed and built specifically for service as Flagships on the Pacific station....
  
   central-battery ironclads
  • Swiftsure
    HMS Swiftsure (1870)
    HMS Swiftsure was the lead ship of the Swiftsure class battleships built in the late Victorian era. Her sister-ship was .-Service history:...
    
     (1870) – sold for breaking 1908
  • Triumph
    HMS Triumph (1870)
    HMS Triumph was a broadside ironclad battleship of the Victorian era, the sister-ship of . These two ships comprise the Swiftsure class of 1870....
    
     (1870) – sold for breaking 1921
• Sultan
  HMS Sultan (1870)
  HMS Sultan was a broadside ironclad of the Royal Navy of the Victorian era, who carried her main armament in a central box battery. She was named for Sultan Abdülâziz of the Ottoman Empire, who was visiting England when she was laid down. Abdülâziz cultivated, good relations with the Second French...
  
   (1870) – central-battery ironclad
• Devastation class
  Devastation class battleship
  The two British Devastation-class battleships of the 1870s were the first class of ocean-going capital ship that did not carry sails, and the first which mounted the entire main armament on top of the hull rather than inside it...
  
   – mastless turret-ship
  • Devastation
    HMS Devastation (1871)
    HMS Devastation was the first of two Devastation-class mastless turret ships built for the British Royal Navy. This was the first class of ocean-going capital ship that did not carry sails, and the first whose entire main armament was mounted on top of the hull rather than inside it...
    
     (1871) – sold for break up 1908
  • Thunderer
    HMS Thunderer (1872)
    HMS Thunderer was a British Royal Navy Devastation-class battleship.Thunder was an ironclad turret ship designed by Edward James Reed with revolving turrets, launched in 1872...
    
     (1872) – mastless turret-ship, sold for breaking 1909
• Alexandra
  HMS Alexandra (1875)
  HMS Alexandra was a central battery ironclad of the Victorian Royal Navy, whose seagoing career was from 1877 to 1900. She spent much of her career as a flagship, and took part in operations to deter Russian aggression against Turkey in 1878 and the bombardment of Alexandria in 1882.-Background:At...
  
   (1875) – central-battery ironclad, sold for breaking 1908
• Temeraire
  HMS Temeraire (1876)
  HMS Temeraire was an ironclad battleship of the Victorian Royal Navy which was unique in that she carried her main armament partly in the traditional broadside battery, and partly in barbettes on the upper deck.-Design and construction:...
  
   (1876) – central-battery ironclad with barbettes
• Superb class (intended for Ottoman Empire) – central-battery ironclads
  • Superb
    HMS Superb (1875)
    HMS Superb was an ironclad battleship designed by Sir Edward Reed for the Ottoman Navy, and was built in Britain by Thames Ironworks under the name of Hamidieh. She had both engines and sails....
    
     (1875) – launched as Hamidieh, renamed
  • (Ottoman Messudieh)
• Neptune
  HMS Neptune
  Nine ships and a naval base of the Royal Navy have been named HMS Neptune after the Roman god of the ocean: was a 90-gun second rate launched in 1683. She was rebuilt in 1710 and 1730 before being renamed HMS Torbay in her new incarnation as a third rate in 1750. She was sold in 1784. was a...
  
   (1874) (ex-Independencia) – masted turret-ship, sold for breaking 1903
• Dreadnought
  HMS Dreadnought (1875)
  The fifth HMS Dreadnought of the British Royal Navy was a turret ironclad battleship built at Pembroke Dockyard, Wales.-Construction:Begun as Fury in 1870, the original design was recast for heavier armour and higher speed. The renamed ship was laid down in 1872 at Pembroke Dockyard and was...
  
   (1875) – mastless turret-ship, sold for breaking 1908
• Inflexible
  HMS Inflexible (1876)
  HMS Inflexible was a Victorian ironclad battleship carrying her main armament in centrally placed turrets. The ship was constructed in the 1870s for the Royal Navy to oppose the perceived growing threat from the Italian Regia Marina in the Mediterranean.The Italian Navy had started constructing a...
  
   (1876) – central citadel turret-ship, sold for breaking 1903
• Ajax class
  Ajax class battleship
  The Ajax class of battleships consisted of two ships, and . They were ironclad ships serving in the Victorian Royal Navy, armed with turret-mounted main armament....
  
   central citadel turret-ships
  • Agamemnon
    HMS Agamemnon (1879)
    HMS Agamemnon was a Victorian Royal Navy Ajax class ironclad turret battleship, the sister-ship of .Agamemnon and Ajax were built to the same design, and were smaller and less expensive versions of Inflexible...
    
     (1879) – broken up 1903
  • Ajax
    HMS Ajax (1880)
    HMS Ajax was the first of the two Royal Navy Ajax class ironclad battleships to be laid down, but was completed one day later than her sister,...
    
     (1880) – sold for breaking 1904

Coastal service ironclads

• Royal Sovereign
  HMS Royal Sovereign (1857)
  HMS Royal Sovereign was originally laid down as a 120-gun first-rate ship of the line of the Royal Navy. She would have mounted sixteen cannon, 114 guns, and a pivot gun. With the rise of steam and screw propulsion, she was ordered to be converted on the stocks to a 131-gun screw ship, with...
  
   (1862) – turret-ship, converted from Duke of Wellington class 3-decker
• Prince Albert
  HMS Prince Albert (1864)
  HMS Prince Albert was designed and built as a shallow-draught coast-defence ship, and was the first British warship designed to carry her main armament in turrets. The ship was named after Prince Albert, the late husband of Queen Victoria...
  
   (1864) – turret-ship
• Scorpion class
  Scorpion class battleship
  The two Scorpion class ironclads, and , were ordered by the Confederate States Navy in 1862 and seized in 1863 by the British to prevent their delivery. This would have violated the Foreign Enlistment Act, which forbade British subjects to build or arm any ships for governments at war with...
  
   masted turret-ships
  • Scorpion
    HMS Scorpion (1863)
    HMS Scorpion, an ironclad turret ship built at Birkenhead, England, was one of two sister ships that the Confederate States of America secretly ordered from the Laird shipyard in 1862. To conceal her true ownership, all concerned endorsed the fiction that she was being constructed as the Egyptian...
    
     (1863)
  • Wivern
    HMS Wivern (1863)
    HMS Wivern was an ironclad turret ship built at Birkenhead, England, one of two sister ships secretly ordered from the Laird & Son shipyard by the Confederate States of America in 1862. Her true ownership was concealed by the fiction that she was being constructed as the Egyptian warship El Monassir...
    
     (1863
• Cerberus class turret-ships
  • Cerberus
    HMVS Cerberus
    HMVS Cerberus is a breastwork monitor that served in the Victoria Naval Forces, the Commonwealth Naval Forces , and the Royal Australian Navy between 1871 and 1924....
    
     (1868) (Victoria)
  • Magdala
    HMS Magdala (1870)
    HMS Magdala was a breastwork monitor of the Royal Navy, built specifically to serve as a coastal defence ship for the harbour of Bombay in the late 1860s. She was ordered by the India Office for the Bombay Marine. The original specifications were thought to be too expensive and a cheaper design...
    
     (1870) (India)
• Abyssinia
  HMS Abyssinia (1870)
  HMS Abyssinia was a breastwork monitor ordered, designed and built by J & W Dudgeon specifically for the Bombay Marine for the defence of the harbour at Bombay....
  
   (1870) (India) – turret-ship
• Glatton
  HMS Glatton (1871)
  HMS Glatton was a breastwork monitor which served in the Victorian Royal Navy.-Design:She was designed by Sir Edward Reed to a specific formula determined by the Board of Admiralty, and her purpose was never made wholly clear. Reed himself said "there is no vessel with the objects of which I am...
  
   (1871) – turret-ship
• Hotspur
  HMS Hotspur (1870)
  HMS Hotspur was a Victorian Royal Navy ironclad ram – a warship armed with guns but whose primary weapon was a ram.-Background:It had been recognised since the time of the Roman Empire or before that a ship, while it might carry weaponry, was itself a potent weapon if used as a missile...
  
   (1870) – turret-ship
• Rupert
  HMS Rupert (1872)
  HMS Rupert was a battleship of the Victorian Royal Navy, whose principal weapon was designed to be her ram.-Design:She was similar in design to , but unlike her carried a revolving turret similar to that carried in...
  
   (1872) – turret-ship, sold for breaking 1907
• Belleisle class
  Belleisle class battleship
  The two ships of the Belleisle class, and , originally built in Britain for the Turkish Navy, were taken over by the Royal Navy in 1878.In 1878 Russia and Turkey were at war, and it was perceived by the British Government that Britain might be drawn into the conflict. This perception has become...
  
   (intended for Ottoman Empire
  Ottoman Empire
  The Ottoman EmpireIt was usually referred to as the "Ottoman Empire", the "Turkish Empire", the "Ottoman Caliphate" or more commonly "Turkey" by its contemporaries...
  
  ) central battery ships
  • Belleisle
    HMS Belleisle (1876)
    HMS Belleisle was one of the four ships currently under construction for foreign navies in British shipyards which were purchased by the British government for the Royal Navy in 1878, at the time of the Russian war scare....
    
     (1876) – launched as Peki-Shereef, renamed
  • Orion
    HMS Orion (1879)
    HMS Orion was a of the Victorian Royal Navy. Originally constructed for the Ottoman Empire, and called Bourdjou-Zaffer, she was purchased by the British Government before completion....
    
     (1879) – planned name Boordhi-Zaffer
• Conqueror class
  Conqueror class battleship
  The Conqueror class battleships were ironclad warships which served in the Victorian Royal Navy, and whose main weapon was designed to be the Ram.The class consisted of two ships, and...
  
   turret-ships
  • Conqueror
    HMS Conqueror (1881)
    HMS Conqueror was an ironclad battleship of the Victorian Royal Navy, whose main armament was an armoured ram.She was the first ship of the Conqueror class to be laid down, her only sister-ship being , which was completed some two years later...
    
     (1881) – sold for breaking 1907
  • Hero
    HMS Hero (1885)
    HMS Hero was the second and final Conqueror-class battleship. She was an ironclad who served in the Victorian Royal Navy.Hero was — like her sister-ship — designed to be an improved version of with a ram as her main armament...
    
    (1885)