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HISTORY OF MARINE ARCHITECTURE.

Strait oak timber > -

Compass ditto

Elm timber

Fir ditto

Knees square

Raking -

Thick stulT of 10 inchesDitto of 9 -

Ditto of 8 ■

Ditto of 7| -Ditto of 7Ditto ofDitto of 6Ditto of 5yDitto of 5

English oak plank of 9 inchesDitto of 3Ditto of 2i

Dantzic ditto of 4 inchesDitto of 3

Elm ditto of 4 -

Ditto of 3

Loads. Feet.813 34

810 17/

69 41

108 2247 4 6

105 45

0 220 49

3 14

42 7

38 17

27 9

25 12

28 19

33 41

94 17

- 45 22.

0 30

- 106 31

12 229 42

0 10

Total - 2425 19

The superior class of ships in the fifth rate mounted 44 guns, on two decks, andcertainly were the worst vessels which, at that time, composed any part of the Britishnavy. Long use had caused the continuance of their construction, and experience oftheir manifold defects proved scarcely sufficient to abolish the ridiculous and ab-surd custom. Even in later times an attempt was made to continue the same class,amended, in some respects, as to those points which were considered as the greatestobjections to its farther use; but though improvement was in such instances, per-haps, applied with sufficient success,-yet there still remained a list of imperfectionswhich will, in all probability, prove- sufficient to prevent its revival, except somenew and unforeseen occurrence should occasion it.

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