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Number of main guns follows name (see rating system of the Royal Navy) :Except where stated otherwise, these ships are listed in the order of pp. 165–169
The Ship of the Line Volume I, by Brian Lavery, pub Conways, 1983,
First rates of 100 guns, rebuilt 1697–1719 •
Royal Sovereign 100 (1701) – broken up 1768 •
Royal Anne 100 (1703) – ex-
St Andrew, broken up 1757 •
London 100 (1706) – enlarged 1721 to 1,711 tons, broken up 1747 •
Royal George 100 (1715) – ex-
Queen, renamed
Royal Anne 1756, broken up 1767 •
Britannia 100 (1719) – harbour service 1745, broken up 1749 •
Royal William 100 (1719) – reduced to 84 guns, broken up 1813
New ships, pre-Establishment, 1697–1706 •
Third rates of 70 guns •
Northumberland 70 (1705) – rebuilt 1721 •
Stirling Castle 70 (1705) – rebuilt 1723 •
Resolution 70 (1705) – ran aground 1707 •
Nassau 70 (1707) – rebuilt 1740 •
Elizabeth 70 (1706) – rebuilt 1737 •
Restoration 70 (1706) – wrecked 1711 •
Fourth rates of 60 guns •
Nottingham 60 (1703) – rebuilt 1719 •
Mary 60 (1704) – rebuilt 1742 and renamed
Princess Mary •
York 60 (1706) – lengthened 1738, sunk as a breakwater 1750 •
Fourth rates of 50 guns, 130 ft group •
Swallow 50 (1703) – rebuilt 1719 •
Antelope 50 (1703) – rebuilt 1741 •
Leopard 50 (1703) – rebuilt 1721 •
Panther 50 (1703) – rebuilt 1716 •
Newcastle 50 (1704) – rebuilt 1732 •
Reserve 50 (1704) – renamed
Sutherland 1716, hospital ship 1741, broken up 1754 •
Saint Albans 50 (1706) – rebuilt 1737 •
Colchester 50 (1707) – rebuilt 1721
Rebuilds, pre-Establishment, 1697–1706 •
Second rates of 90 guns •
Prince George 90 (1701) – ex-
Duke, rebuilt 1723 •
St George 90 (1701) – ex-
Charles, rebuilt 1740 •
Royal Katherine 90 (1702) – renamed
Ramillies 1706, rebuilt 1749 •
Union 90 (1704) – ex-
Albemarle, rebuilt 1726 •
Third rates of 80 guns •
Devonshire 80 (1704) – blown up in action 1707 •
Chichester 80 (1706) – broken up 1749 •
Cornwall 80 (1706) – rebuilt 1726 •
Third rates of 70 guns •
Resolution 70 (1698) – foundered 1703 •
Burford 70 (1699) – wrecked 1719 •
Eagle 70 (1699) – wrecked 1707 •
Expedition 70 (1699) – rebuilt 1714 and renamed
Prince Frederick •
Kent 70 (1699) – rebuilt 1724 •
Stirling Castle 70 (1699) – wrecked 1703 •
Suffolk 70 (1699) – rebuilt 1719 •
Berwick 70 (1700) – hulked 1715, broken up 1723 •
Edgar 70 (1700) – rebuilt 1709 •
Essex 70 (1700) – rebuilt 1713 •
Grafton 70 (1700) – captured 1707 •
Hampton Court 70 (1701) – captured 1707 •
Lenox 70 (1701) – rebuilt 1723 •
Northumberland 70 (1702) – wrecked 1703 •
Restoration 70 (1702) – wrecked 1703 •
Elizabeth 70 (1704) – captured 1704 •
Third rates of 66 guns •
Monmouth 66 (1700) – rebuilt 1718 •
Warspite 66 (1702) – renamed
Edinburgh, rebuilt 1721 •
Rupert 66 (1703) – rebuild of
1666 Rupert to different design, reduced to fourth rate 1716, broken up 1736 (then rebuilt again from 1737 to 1740) •
Defiance 66 (1707) – reduced to fourth rate 1716, hulk 1743, broken up 1749 •
Fourth rates of 60 guns •
Montague 60 (1698) – rebuilt 1716 •
Monck 60 (1702) – wrecked 1720 •
Dunkirk 60 (1704) – rebuilt 1734 •
Plymouth 60 (1705) – foundered 1705 •
Dreadnought 60 (1706) – enlarged 1722, hulked 1740, broken up 1748 •
Fourth rates of 46–54 guns •
Advice (1698) – captured 1711 • (1699) – rebuilt 1712 •
Bonaventure (1699) – rebuilt 1711 •
Greenwich (1699) – rebuilt 1730 • (1699) – hulked 1706, broken up 1728 • (1700) – rebuilt 1719 •
Southampton (1700) – hulked 1728, broken up 1771 • (1701) – foundered 1703 •
Tiger (1702) – rebuilt 1722 •
Falkland (1702) – rebuilt 1720 • (1704) – wrecked 1719 • (1706) – captured 1707
1706 Establishment The
1706 Establishment established a desired set of principal dimensions for each
group (i.e. size) of warship from the 40-gun fifth rate up to the 90-gun second rate (first rates and ships of less than 40 guns were not covered by the 1706 Establishment). As only the principal dimensions were specified, the design of individual ships remained with the Master Shipwright in each Dockyard; thus ships of the same number of guns built to this Establishment did not constitute a
class in the modern sense of all being built to one design. •
Second rates of 90 guns The seven Second rates of this Establishment were ordered as 96-gun vessels under the ordnance specification of the 1703 Guns Establishment, but the subsequent 1716 Guns Establishment reduced this armament to 90 guns. •
Marlborough 90 (1706) – ex-
St Michael, rebuilt 1732 •
Blenheim 90 (1709) – ex-
Duchess, broken up 1763 •
Neptune 90 (1710) – rebuilt 1730 •
Vanguard 90 (1710) – rebuilt 1739 and renamed
Duke •
Princess 90 (1711) – ex-
Ossory, renamed
Princess Royal 1728, broken up 1773 •
Sandwich 90 (1712) – broken up 1770 •
Barfleur 90 (1716) – hulked 1764, broken up 1783 •
Third rates of 80 guns The ten three-decker third rates of this Establishment were ordered as 80-gun vessels under the ordnance specification of the 1703 Guns Establishment, while the subsequent 1716 Guns Establishment retained this total (while making slight adjustments). •
Boyne 80 (1708) – rebuilt 1739 •
Humber 80 (1708) – rebuilt 1726 and renamed
Princess Amelia •
Russell 80 (1709) – rebuilt 1735 •
Cumberland 80 (1710) – broken up 1731 and rebuilt 1739 •
Devonshire 80 (1710) – hulk 1740, sold 1760 •
Dorsetshire 80 (1712) – sold 1749 •
Shrewsbury 80 (1713) – broken up 1749 •
Cambridge 80 (1715) – broken up 1749 •
Torbay 80 (1719) – broken up 1749 •
Newark 80 (1717) – rebuilt 1747 •
Third rates of 70 guns •
Resolution 70 (1708) – wrecked 1711 •
Captain 70 (1708) – rebuilt 1722 •
Grafton 70 (1709) – rebuilt 1725 •
Hampton Court 70 (1709) – rebuilt 1744 •
Edgar 70 (1709) – burnt 1711 •
Yarmouth 70 (1709) – hulked 1740 •
Orford 70 (1713) – rebuilt 1727 •
Royal Oak 70 (1713) – rebuilt 1741 •
Expedition 70 (1714) – renamed
Prince Frederick 1715, rebuilt 1740 •
Monmouth 70 (1718) – rebuilt 1742 •
Revenge 70 (1718) – rebuilt 1742 •
Suffolk 70 (1718) – rebuilt 1739 •
Fourth rates of 60 guns •
Plymouth 60 (1708) – rebuilt 1722 •
Lion 60 (1709) – rebuilt 1738 •
Gloucester 60 (1709) – captured 1709 •
Rippon 60 (1712) – rebuilt 1735 •
Montague 60 (1716) – broken up 1749 •
Medway 60 (1718) – hulk 1740, broken up 1749 •
Kingston 60 (1719) – rebuilt 1740 •
Nottingham 60 (1719) – rebuilt 1745 •
Fourth rates of 50 guns The first nineteen of the following vessels were ordered between 1706 and 1714 as 54-gun vessels, armed under the 1703 Guns Establishment with a main battery of 12-pounder guns. Under the 1716 Guns Establishment, the 54-gun ship was superseded by a 50-gun ship with a main battery of 18-pounder guns. The last ten ships listed below were ordered from 1715 onward which were established and armed to the 1716 Guns Establishment, and the existing 54-gun ships were re-armed to this standard as each came into a dockyard for refitting and opportunity allowed. •
Salisbury 50 (1707) – rebuilt 1717 •
Dragon 50 (1707) – wrecked 1712 •
Falmouth 50 (1708) – rebuilt 1729 •
Pembroke 50 (1710) – broken up 1726 •
Ruby 50 (1708) – renamed
Mermaid and reduced to 44-gun fifth rate May 1744, sold 1748 •
Chester 50 (1708) – harbour service 1743, broken up 1749 •
Romney 50 (1708) – rebuilt 1726 •
Bonaventure 50 (1711) – renamed
Argyll 1715, rebuilt 1722 •
Bristol 50 (1711) – broken up 1742, rebuilt 1746 •
Warwick 50 (1711) – broken up 1726 •
Ormonde 50 (1711) – renamed
Dragon 1715, broken up 1733 for rebuild •
Assistance 50 (1713) – rebuilt 1725 •
Gloucester 50 (1711) – rebuilt 1737 •
Advice 50 (1712) – renamed
Milford and reduced to 44-gun fifth rate 1744, sold 1749 •
Strafford 50 (1714) – broken up 1733 •
Worcester 50 (1714) – broken up 1733 •
Panther 50 (1716) – hulked 1743, sold 1768 •
Dartmouth 50 (1716) – rebuilt 1741 •
Rochester 50 (1716) – renamed
Maidstone hospital ship 1744, broken up 1748 •
Nonsuch 50 (1717) – hulked 1740, broken up 1745 •
Salisbury 50 (1717) – rebuilt 1726 •
Winchester 50 (1717) – hulked 1744, broken up 1781 •
St Albans 50 (1718) – broken up 1734 •
Guernsey 50 (1717) – rebuilt 1740 •
Norwich 50 (1718) – renamed
Enterprise and reduced to 44-gun fifth rate 1744, broken up 1771 •
Deptford 50 (1719) – sold 1725 •
Tiger 50 (1722) – wrecked 1742 •
Weymouth 50 (1719) – broken up 1732 •
Swallow 50 (1719) – broken up 1728 •
Fifth rates of 40–44 guns These small two-decker warships were not ships of the line as they were not powerful enough to stand in the line of battle. They were informally described as
frigates and are included in the article on that topic.
Captured ships, War of Spanish Succession •
Prompt Prize 80 (third rate) (1692, ex-French
Prompt 76, captured 12 October 1702), sunk as a wharf 1703 •
Assurance 70 (third rate) (1697, ex-French
Assuré 66, captured 12 October 1702), broken up 1712 •
Ferme 70 (third rate) (1700, ex-French
Ferme, captured 12 October 1702), sold 1713 •
Moderate 64 (fourth rate) (1685, ex-French
Modéré, captured 12 October 1702), sold 1713 •
Triton 42 (fifth rate, i.e. not a ship of the line) (1697, ex-French
Triton, captured 12 October 1702) – sold 1709 •
Hazardous 54 (fourth rate) (1701, ex-French
Hasardeux, captured 14 November 1703) – wrecked 19 November 1706 •
Falkland Prize 54 (fourth rate) (1698, ex-French
flûte Seine, captured 15 July 1704) – wrecked 1705 and sold 1706 •
Arrogant 60 (fourth rate) (1685, ex-French
Arrogant, captured 20 March 1705), foundered 1709 •
Auguste 60 (fourth rate) (1704, ex-French
Auguste, captured 8 August 1705), wrecked 1716 •
Superb 64 (fourth rate) (1708, ex-French
Superbe, captured 29 July 1710), broken up 1732 •
Moor 54 (fourth rate) (1688, ex-French
Maure, captured 13 December 1710, scuttled as a breakwater 1716 ==List of ships-of-the-line of the Royal Navy (1719–41)==