HISTORY OF MARINE ARCHITECTURE.

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navy; for it comprized nearly sixty sail of ships. The two among the mostesteemed were the Rippon and the Dunkirk; and they continued, though theirclass was nearly annihilated, almost uninterruptedly employed for nearly half acentury.

11 IP POX, 60 Guns, taken in Hand ‘25 th November, 1752, and launched 20 th

January, 1758.

Length on the gun-deck

Length of the keel for tonnage

Real rake of the stern -

Rake of the back of the post at the wing-transom

Breadth extreme - -

Depth in hold -

Burthen in tons - - 124214-

Strait oak timber -

Compass ditto -

Elm ditto -

Fir ditto -

Knees square -

lYitto raking -

Thick stuff of 10 inches -

Ditto oft) - - - -

Ditto of 8 -

Ditto of 7 y

Ditto of 7

Ditto of 54-

Ditto of 6

Ditto of 5 4- -

Ditto of 5 -

English oak plank of 4 inchesDitto of 3 -

Feet.

Incites.

155

5

129

4

33

9

2

St

42

6

- 18

7

Loads.

Feet.

622

5

918

15

44

28

70

30

49

38

- 61

12

3

32

12

46

54

18

1

3

15

4

G

6

- 100

25

s

2

- 115

0

82

30

53

18

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12

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