HISTORY OF MARINE ARCHITECTURE.
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CHAPTER THE ELEVENTH.
Names, principal Dimensions, a?id Tonnage, as well of the Ships and Vessels purposelybuilt for the Royal Navy, from the Year 1700 to the End of the Year 1800, asthose which, though not so built, have, at different Periods, been received vito it, onbeing either captured from the Enemy, purchased from Merchants, or hired for aTime as chartered Vessels—The Names of the Surveyors, as far as it has been pos-sible to collect them with Accuracy, as well as those of the Builders who severallydirected the Construction of the different Vessels ; the Establishments on which manyof them were constructed, and the Fate of the greater Part of those which xvere notregularly xvorn out and condemned as unfit for any farther Service.—Brief Remarkson the Alteration of Construction in the progressive Periods, and a short com-parative View of the Augmentation of Tonnage and Dimensions; with a generalStatement of the supposed Advantage derived from the Increase of them.
Rates.
1st.
Ditto.
Lost.
Lost.
when.
Length of
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5 of
Ships Names.
a
Surveyors.
tn
Gun
.5
rt
4
CO
G
U
•7S
Keel.
«
/
5
H
3
S
W
Deck.
.jRoval-Ann .
1706
171
.9
139
7
49
3
19
6
1809
750
100
(Royal-Sovereign
1719
175
0
140
7
50
3*
20
1
1883
830
100
Koyal-George
1733
178
0
143
H
51
9i
21
6
2047
850
100
Britannia . .
1745
178
0
145
0
52
Oi’21
6
20()1
850
100
Victory . . .
186
0
151
3f
52
0
21
6
21()2
850
100
Sir T.
blade
Ville tie Paris .
185
74
153
0
53
8t
00
O
2347
850
104
Royal-Sovereign
184
0
150
6
52
0
22
3
2164
850
100
Sir J.Williams
Royal-George .
187
0
153
6
52
4
22
4
2236
850
100
Edw.
Hunt
Queen Charlotte
190
0
156
5
52
4
no
4
2279
850
100
Ville de Paris .
190
0
156
It
53
0
22
4
2332
850
no
Sir J. Hcnitow
Hibernia . .
190
0
156
l£
53
0
22
4
2332
850
110
Ditto
Commerce de 7Marsielles . $
208
4
172
Of
54
9i
25
Of
2747
875
120
Caledonia
205
0
170
11
53
6
23
2
2602
8/5
120
Sir W
. Rule
San Josef . .
194
3
156
114
54
3
24
3
2457
840
114
Sdvador del 7Mundo . J
JfjO
9
152
11
54
31
23
1
2398
11
When and where built,and
Builders Names.
Re-b. 1713, Wool. J. Ackworth.Re-b. 1728, ('hat. J. Rosewell.Built 1736, Wool. .1. Pownall.Built 17ft.’, Ports. J. Burknall.Built 17<)5, Chath. E. Allen.Taken fr. French 1/82.
Re-b. 1787, Plym. J. Pollard.Built at Chatham 1788.
Ditto 178(J.
Ditto 171)5.
Building at Plvm.
Taken at Toulon.
Building at Plymouth.
Taken trout Spainiards 1797.
Ditto.
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