HISTORY OF MARINE ARCHITECTURE.

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Thick stuff of 7 inchesDitto of -Ditto of 6Ditto of 51Ditto of 5

English oak plank of 4 inches

Ditto of 3

Ditto of 2|-

Ditto of 2

Dantzic ditto of 4

Ditto of 3

Elm ditto of 4

Ditto of 3

Loads. Feet.Brought forward - 2430 43

• - - 64 5

42 19

107 30

- - - 4 35

- 71 38

86 38

- 44 20

12 30

0 40

146 16

10 41

5 45

- 0 10

Total - 3028 20

To the Triumph, the keel of which, asjust shewn, was not laid till the 2d day ofJanuary, 1758, and which ship was not finished till after peace had taken placewith France and Spain, having been launched on the 3d of March, 1764, wasadded a sister, or cotemporary vessel, built nearly on the same scale; but as theseextraordinary efforts beyond the rigid bounds of custom were intended merely forexperiment, no more of the same class were built till a long proof of the superiorityof so extended a scale of dimensions had been established by long practice. Of thiscircumstance, more enlarged notice will be hereafter taken in describing thepresent existing class of ships in the third rate.

The Triumph, which was the name of the ship alluded to* will be thereforefound to have considerably outstripped the rest of her compeers: her crew wasnecessarily augmented beyond the ordinary compliment; and every other part ofher equipment was conducted on the same grand scale.

r The difference will be easily discernible on comparing the dimensions of theTriumph, just given, with those of the Mars, a ship of the same nominal rate;the construction of which commenced in the month of May, 1756, and wascompleted on the 15th day of March, 1759.

MARS,