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HISTORY OF MARINE ARCHITECTURE.

and 90 guns each; the third, of the Princess-Amelia, Boyne, Cambridge, Prin-cess-Caroline, Chichester, Cornwall, Culloden, Dorsetshire, Monarque, Namur,

Neptune,

THE following List of the BRITISH SHIPS of War, lost, taken, or destroyed within the same Period, willshew how comparatively small was the Injury sustained by the English : one Ship only of the Line, and threeor four very inferior Vessels, having remained with the Enemy ; the Whole of the Remainder having beenre-captured, or fallen by the Hand of Providence alone.

Years. Ships.

17-14 Victory -

1749 Namur -

17-44 Northumberland1744 Oxford -

1742 Tilbury —

1744 Weymouth1 749 Pembroke —

1741 Gloucester -

1742 Tyger -1744 Colchester1744 St. Alban’s

1 744 Greenwich

1746 Severn -

1745 Anglesca —

1743 Looe —

1747 Maidstone -

1741 W'ager -

1743 Rye

1744 Solebay —

1744 Seaford -

1745 Fox - -

1745 Lyme -

1747 Fowey -

1743 Astrea store-ship1740 Apollo hospital-ship

1744 Swallow -

1744 Grampus -

1740 Wolf

1741 Otter

1742 Drake -

1742 Grampus -

1742 Saltash -

1744 Bonetta —

1<44 Hornet

Guns.

100 Lost in the British Channel.

74 Wrecked in the East Indies.

70 Taken by three French ships of war.

70 Wrecked in the Gulph of Mexico.

60 Burnt in the West Indies, by accident,.60 W 7 recked at the Leeward lslands..

60 Ditto in the South Seas.

50 Sunk in the South Seas.

50 Wrecked in the West Indies.

50 Ditto on the coast of England.

50 Ditto in the great storm at Jamaica.

50 Ditto.

50 Taken by French.— Retaken .

44 Taken by the French.

40 Lost in America.

40 W recked on the coast of France.

20 Lost in the South Seas.

20 Lost.

20 Taken by the French.— Retaken .

20 Ditto, ditto.

20 Lost near Dunbar.

20 Foundered coming from the West Indies.20 Wrecked in the Gulph of Florida.

18 Burnt, by accident, at Piscatawa.

18 Wrecked in the East Indies.

16 Los*.

16 Lost.

14 Lost.

14 Lost.

14 Lost.

14 Lost.

14 Lost.

14 Wrecked at Jamaica.

14 Taken by the French.— Retaken.

1745