HISTORY OF MARINE ARCHITECTURE.
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LUDLOW-CASTLE, 44 guns, taken in Hand September 14, 1743, and
launched December 23, 1744.
Length on the gun-deck -
Length of the keel for tonnage -
Real rake of the stern - -
Rake of the back of the main-post at the wing-transom
Breadth extreme -
Depth in hold
Burthen in tons - - - 725.
Strait oak timber- - - •
Compass ditto - - -
Elm ditto • - - - * -
Fir ditto -
Knees square -
Ditto raking -
English oak plank of-4 inches - -- —
Ditto of 3
Ditto of c l\
Ditto of 2Dantzic ditto of 4Ditto of 3Elm ditto of 4Ditto of 3
Total
Feet.
Inch.
12 6
10 t
103
8
14
2
4
3
■ 36
3
15
5i
Loads.
Feet;
617
9
584
13
52
9
90
5
38
1
79
2
82
16
40
3
18
16
0
47
84
10
8
10
6
4
1
4
1701
47
Between this and the succeeding rate, there was a wonderful interspace, nointervenirg class, at that time, existing in the British navy, between those whichmounted 44 and the sixth rates carrying 24 guns; these were considered as theonly vessels entitled to the denomination of frigates; and the variation between thedifferent British built ships comprized in that description, amounting, in the,year1750, to almost sixty sail, was so trivial, that the account of one may, witlioutthe smallest impropriety, serve for that of the whole.
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