HISTORY OF MARINE ARCHITECTURE.

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To this ship are annexed the dimensions and history of four others, different intheir fate and in their construction. The first, as the most powerful, is theTriumph of 74 guns; a ship which the possession of those severally capturedfrom the French by the British squadrons under the orders of lord Anson andsir Edward Hawke, and the knowlege of those pre-eminent qualities which theypossessed, induced the British marine architects to embrace the adoption of. . TheInvincible, captured by the former on the 3d of May, 1747, is said to have sug-gested the first idea which, till that time, ftrange as it may appear to indifferent

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