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HISTORY OF MARINE ARCHITECTURE.

Loads. Feet.Brought forward - 3782 18

English phnk of 2 inches - - - - 11 19

Dan tzick plank of 4j - - - - - 410

Ditto of 4 - - - - - - 217 2

Ditto of 3 - - - - - - 40 26

Elm plank of 4 - - - - - 11 40

Ditto of 3 - - - - - - 0 45

Total - 3968 10

As the superior vessel among the third rates, appears the Princess-Amelia, aship of three decks, but mounting only 80 guns; this was an improvement on thesame class, which had long previously existed in the British navy ; and the shipin question was, to the latest moment of her existence, held in no inconsiderabledegree of estimation. During the dispute with France, which commenced in1778, she was constantly kept in commission, was frequently a flag ship, andactually sent, towards the conclusion of the war, though so extremely old, in thatcapacity to the West Indies, after having been, for a considerable space of timepreceding, employed in the same line of service, on the home or channel station.

PRIXCESS-AMELIA, 80 guns, taken in Hand 15 August, 1751, and

launched 1th March, 1757".

Length of keel for tonnage - - -

Length of the gun-deck r

Breadth of the extreme ...

Rake of the back of the main port at the wing-transomDepth in held -

Burthen in tons - 1579-^4

Strait oak timber -

Compass ditto -

Feet. Inch.133 0

165 0

47 3

2 620 0

Loads. Feet.1207 17

1088 40

Carry forward

2296 7

Elm