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readers, had never suggested itself as possibly, or, to say the least, as prudentiallyadoptable, by British marine architects. Disdaining, at length, however, thetrammels of their former servitude, they boldly, though reluctantly perhaps, toreasunder the bonds of prejudice which confined them, and gave to the world aship, which, for the space of more than twenty years, was considered as the firstof her class then existing; nor has it, perhaps, been ever materially exceeded inprinciples and utility by any one that has been more recently constructed.

TRIUMPH, 74 Guns, taken in Hand 2d January, 1758 , and launched 3d

March , 1764 .

Length of the gun-duck -

Length of the keel for tonnage -

Breadth of the extreme - -

Rake of the back of the main post at the wing transom ta

Feet. Inches.171 3

138 8

49 9

lower edge of the rabbit of the keel

Depth in the holdBurthen in tons

21 3

Strait oak timber

Compass ditto

Elm ditto

Fir ditto

Knees square

Ditto raking

Thick stuff of 10 inches

Ditto of

Ditto of 9

Ditto of 8i

Ditto of 8

Ditto of

Loads: Feet.597 27

1355 29

62 12135 25

61 23

76 15

3 35

13 15

42 10

15 40

44 8

- 23 4

2430 43

Thick