- Source: List of ships of the line of the Royal Navy
This is a list of ships of the line of the Royal Navy of England, and later (from 1707) of Great Britain, and the United Kingdom. The list starts from 1660, the year in which the Royal Navy came into being after the restoration of the monarchy under Charles II, up until the emergence of the battleship around 1880, as defined by the Admiralty.
The early Restoration period (1660–77)
This list includes several earlier ships which were rebuilt for the Royal Navy in this period—specifically the first-rate Prince Royal (in 1663), the second-rate Victory (in 1666), the third-rate Montague (in 1675) and the fourth-rates Bonaventure (in 1663) and Constant Warwick (in 1666). The process, which generally involved the dismantling in dry dock of the old ship and constructing it to a new design incorporating part of the materials from the old vessel, produced what were in effect substantially new ships with altered dimensions and sizes, and generally mounting a somewhat larger number of guns.
= First rates
=Prince Royal 92 (rebuilt 1663) – taken and burnt by the Dutch 1666
96-gun group
Charles 96 (1668) – renamed St George 1687, re-classed as second rate 1691, rebuilt 1701
St Andrew 96 (1670) – renamed Royal Anne when rebuilt 1704
London 96 (1670) – rebuilt 1706
100-gun group
Prince 100 (1670) – repaired and renamed Royal William 1692, rebuilt 1719
Royal James 100 (1671) – burned in action 1672
Royal Charles 100 (1673) – repaired and renamed Queen 1693, rebuilt and renamed Royal George in 1715
Royal James 100 (1675) – renamed Victory 1691, then Royal George 1714, then Victory again in 1715; burnt by accident 1721
= Second rates
=Royal Katherine 76 (1664) – rebuilt from 1699 to 1703
Royal Oak 76 (1664) – burned by the Dutch on 14 June 1667
Loyal London 80 (1666) – burned by the Dutch on 14 June 1667
Victory 76 (Rebuilt 1666) – condemned and broken up 1691
French Ruby 66 (1666) – a prize, Le Rubis, captured from the French, hulked January 1686 at Portsmouth after storm damage and broken up
St Michael 90 (1669) – re-classed as a first rate 1672, then back to a second rate 1689; renamed Marlborough in 1706 and rebuilt 1706 to 1708
= Third rates
=Clove Tree 62 (1665) – a prize, formerly VOC ship Nagelboom, captured from the Dutch, retaken by them 1666
House of Sweeds 70 (1665) – formerly Huis te Zwieten, a prize captured from the Dutch, sunk as a blockship in the Thames 1667
Golden Phoenix 70 (1665) – formerly Geldersche Ruyter, a prize captured from the Dutch, sunk as a blockship in the Thames 1667
Slothany 60 (1665) – formerly Slot Hooningen, a prize captured from the Dutch, hulked 1667, sold 1686
Helverson 60 (1665) – formerly Hilversum, a prize captured from the Dutch in June 1665, sunk as a blockship in the Medway 1667
Cambridge 64 (1666) – wrecked 1694
Warspite 64 (1666) – rebuilt 1702
Defiance 64 (1666) – burned by accident 1668
Rupert 64 (1666) – rebuilt 1703
Resolution 64 (1667) – rebuilt 1698
Monmouth 64 (1667) – rebuilt 1700
Edgar 72 (1668) – rebuilt 1700
Swiftsure 66 (1673) – rebuilt 1696
Harwich 66 (1674) – wrecked 1691
Royal Oak 70 (1674) – rebuilt 1713
Defiance 64 (1675) – rebuilt 1695
Arms of Rotterdam 60 (1674) – a prize captured from the Dutch, hulked 1675, broken up 1703
Montague 62 – built as Lyme in 1654, rebuilt as Montague in 1675 and again rebuilt in 1698
= Fourth rates
=Constant Warwick (1645) 42 – rebuilt as in 1666, captured by the French 1691
1646 Programme Group
Adventure (1646)
Assurance (1646)
Nonsuch (1646)
1647 Programme Group
Dragon (1647)
Elizabeth (1647)
Phoenix (1647)
Tiger (1647)
1649 Programme Group
Portsmouth (1649)
President (1650)
1650 Programme Group
Foresight (1650)
Assistance (1650)
Reserve (1650)
Advice (1650)
Pelican (1650)
Centurion (1650)
1651 Programme Group
Laurel (1651)
Sapphire (1651)
Bristol (1653)
Ruby Group
Ruby (1652)
Diamond (1652)
Bonaventure 48 – previously named HMS President. Renamed HMS Bonaventure in 1660, rebuilt in 1666 and broken up for a rebuild in 1711. Re-launched in 1711 as a 50-gun fourth rate. Renamed Argyll in 1715, rebuilt in 1722 and sunk as a breakwater in 1748
West Friesland 54 (1665) – a prize, Westfriesland, captured from the Dutch, sold 1667
Seven Oaks 52 (1665) – a prize, Zevenwolden, captured from the Dutch, retaken by them 1666
Charles V 52 (1665) – a prize, Carolus Quintus, captured from the Dutch, burned by them 1667
Guilder de Ruyter 50 (1665) – a prize, Geldersche Ruiter, captured from the Dutch, sold 1667
Maria Sancta 50 (1665) – a prize, Sint Marie, captured from the Dutch, burned by them 1667
Mars 50 (1665) – a prize, Mars, captured from the Dutch, sold 1667
Delft 48 (1665) – a prize, Delft, captured from the Dutch, sold 1668
St Paul 48 (1665) – a prize, Sint Paulus, captured from the Dutch, burned in action 1666
Hope 44 (1665) – a prize, Hoop, captured from the Dutch, wrecked 1666
Black Spread Eagle 44 (1665) – a prize, Groningen, captured from the Dutch, sunk in action 1666.
Golden Lion 42 (1665) – a prize, Gouden Leeuw, captured from the Dutch, given to Guinea Company 1668
Zealand 42 (1665) – a prize, Zeelandia, captured from the Dutch, sold 1667
Unity 42 (1665) – a prize, Eendracht, captured from the Dutch, retaken by them 1667
Young Prince 38 (1665) – a prize, Jonge Prins, captured from the Dutch, expended as a fireship 1666
Black Bull 36 (1665) – a prize, Edam, captured from the Dutch, retaken and sunk by them 1666
St Patrick 48 (1666) – captured by the Dutch 1667
Greenwich 54 (1666) – rebuilt 1699
St David 54 (1667) – sunk at Portsmouth 1690, raised but sold 1713
Stathouse van Harlem 46 (1667) – a prize, Raadhuis van Haarlem, captured from the Dutch, sunk as a breakwater at Sheerness 1690
Stavoreen 48 (1672) – a prize captured from the Dutch, sold 1682
Arms of Terver 48 (1673) – a prize captured from the Dutch, sold 1682
Oxford 54 (1674) – rebuilt 1702.
Woolwich 54 (1675) – rebuilt 1702
Kingfisher 46 (1675) – a specialised fourth-rate designed for a role similar to that of the Q-ships of 1914–18, rather than for the battle fleet; rebuilt 1699
The above list excludes two smaller fourth-rates not designed for the line of battle—the galley-frigates Charles Galley and James Galley of 1676. It also excludes four fifth-rates of 36 guns (the Falcon and Sweepstakes of 1666, the Nonsuch of 1668, and the Phoenix of 1671) which were re-classed as 42-gun fourth rates some years after their original completion, but later reverted to being fifth-rates.
The "Thirty Ships" programme of 1677 (1677–88)
First rate of 100 guns
Britannia 100 (28 June 1682) – broken up 1715
Second rates of 90 guns
Vanguard 90 (November 1678) – wrecked in the Great Storm of 1703
Windsor Castle 90 (4 March 1679) – wrecked 1693
Sandwich 90 (May 1679) – rebuilt 1709–1715; lazarette 1752, broken up 1770
Duchess 90 (May 1679) – renamed Princess Anne 31 December 1701, renamed Windsor Castle 17 March 1702, renamed Blenheim 18 December 1706; rebuilt 1708–09; broken up 1763.
Albemarle 90 (29 October 1680) – rebuilt 1701–04; renamed Union 29 December 1709, broken up 1749
Neptune 90 (17 April 1683) – rebuilt 1708–10
Duke 90 (13 June 1682) – rebuilt 1700–01 and renamed Prince George 31 December 1701; broken up to rebuild 1719
Ossory 90 (24 August 1682) – rebuilt 1708–11 and renamed Princess 2 January 1716, then Princess Royal 26 July 1728
Coronation 90 (23 May 1685) – wrecked 1691
Third rates of 70 guns
Lenox 70 (1678)
Hampton Court 70 (1678)
Anne 70 (1678) – Burnt 1690
Captain 70 (1678)
Restoration 70 (1678) – wrecked in the Great Storm of 1703
Berwick 70 (1679)
Burford 70 (1679)
Eagle 70 (1679)
Expedition 70 (1679) – renamed Prince Frederick 1715, sold 1784
Grafton 70 (1679)
Pendennis 70 (1679) – wrecked 1689
Northumberland 70 (1679) – wrecked in the Great Storm of 1703
Essex 70 (1679) – broken up 1736 for rebuild
Kent 70 (1679)
Exeter 70 (1680) – hulked 1691
Suffolk 70 (1680) – broken up by 1765
Hope 70 (1678) – captured 1695
Elizabeth 70 (1679) – rebuilt 1703
Stirling Castle 70 (1679) – wrecked in the Great Storm of 1703
Breda 70 (c. 1679) – burnt 1690
= New fourth rates (1683–88)
=Mordaunt 46 (c. 1681) – built privately and purchased 1683. wrecked 1693
Deptford 50 (1687) – broken up 1700 for rebuild
St Albans 50 (1687) – wrecked 1693
Sedgemoor 50 (1687) – wrecked 1689
= Major rebuilds (1677–88)
=Royal Sovereign (first rate) 100 (1685) – burnt by accident 29 January 1696
Mary (third rate) 60 (1688) – wrecked in Great Storm 27 November 1703
Tiger (fourth rate) 44 (1681) – rebuilt 1701–03
Bonaventure (fourth rate) 48 (1683) – rebuilt 1699
Hampshire (fourth rate) 46 (1686) – sunk in action 26 August 1697
Assistance (fourth rate) 48 (1687) – rebuilt 1699
Ruby (fourth rate) 48 (1687) – rebuilt 1704–06
= Captures – ex-Algerines
=The Royal Navy took into service as fourth rates the following ships captured from the Algerines (Algerian corsairs)
Marigold 44 (ex-Algerine Marygold, captured 28 October 1677) – wrecked 1679
Tiger Prize 48 (ex-Algerine, captured 1 April 1678) – sunk as a breakwater 1696
Golden Horse 46 (ex-Algerine Golden Horse, captured 9 April 1681) – sunk as a breakwater 1688
Half Moon 44 (ex-Algerine Half Moon, captured 9 September 1681) – burnt by accident 1686
Two Lions 44 (ex-Algerine Two Lions, captured 16 September 1681) – sold 1688
List of ships-of-the-line of the Royal Navy (1688–97)
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. 163–165 The Ship of the Line Volume I, by Brian Lavery, pub Conways, 1983, ISBN 0-85177-252-8
= The "Twenty-Seven Ships" programme of 1691
=This programme was approved by Parliament on 10 October 1690. While nominally it comprised 17 third rates of 80 guns and ten fourth rates of 60 guns, funds for three third rates of 70 guns were provided at virtually the same date as the Programme, which should thus strictly speaking refer to Thirty Ships.
Two-decker third rates of 80 guns
Devonshire 80 (1692) – blew up at the Battle at The Lizard, 1707
Cornwall 80 (1692)
Boyne 80 (1692) – broken up by 1763
Russell 80 (1692)
Norfolk 80 (1693)
Humber 80 (1693)
Sussex 80 (1693) – wrecked 1694
Torbay 80 (1693)
Lancaster 80 (1694)
Dorsetshire 80 (1694)
Cambridge 80 (1695)
Chichester 80 (1695)
Newark 80 (1695)
Three-decker third rates of 80 guns.
These four were originally intended to be two-deckers, like the other 13, but were completed as three-deckers.
Shrewsbury 80 (1695)
Cumberland 80 (1695) – captured by France at the Battle at The Lizard, 1707, to Genoa 1715, to Spain 1717 as Principe de Asturias 70, captured by Britain at the Battle of Cape Passaro, 1718, to Austria 1720 as San Carlos, broken up 1733
Ranelagh 80 (1697) – renamed Princess Caroline 1728
Somerset 80 (1698) – broken up 1740
Third rates of 70 guns
Bredah 70 (1692) – broken up 1730
Ipswich 70 (1693) – broken up 1727 to rebuild
Yarmouth 70 (1695) – broken up 1707 and rebuilt 1707–09; hulked 1740, sold or broken up 1769
Fourth rates of 60 guns
Medway 60 (1693)
Carlisle 60 (1693) – wrecked 1696
Winchester 60 (1693) – sank 1695
Canterbury 60 (1693)
Sunderland 60 (1694) – scuttled 1737
Pembroke 60 (1694) – captured 1709
Gloucester 60 (1695) – broken up 1731
Windsor 60 (1695)
Kingston 60 (1697)
Exeter 60 (1697)
= Other third rates
=70-gun ships, ordered 1695
Bedford 70 (1698) – rebuilt 1741
Orford 70 (1698) – rebuilt 1712
Nassau 70 (1699) – wrecked 1706
Revenge 70 (1699) – renamed Buckingham 1711, hulk 1727, scuttled as a foundation 1745
64-gun ship
Dreadnought 64 (1691) – reduced to fourth rate 1697, rebuilt 1706
= Second rates of 90 guns, ordered 1695
=Association 90 (1697) – wrecked 1707
Barfleur 90 (1697) – rebuilt 1716 at 80-gun ship
Namur 90 (1697) – rebuilt 1729
Triumph 90 (1698) – renamed Prince 1714, rebuilt 1750
= Fourth rates of 50 guns
=The split between 123 ft groups and 130 ft groups is not in Lavery, but in the previous version of this list on Wikipedia. However the split is supported by data in The 50-Gun Ship and in British Warships in the Age of Sail 1603–1714.
Ordered 1690 (123 ft group)
Chatham (1691) – broken up 1718 for rebuild
Centurion (1691) – broken up 1728 for rebuild
Chester (1691) – captured by France at the Battle at The Lizard, 1707
Norwich (1691) – wrecked 1692
Ordered 1690 (130 ft prototype)
Weymouth (1693) – broken up 1717 for rebuild
Ordered 1692 (123 ft group)
Falmouth (1693) – captured by France 1704
Rochester (1693) – broken up 1714 for rebuild
Portland (1693) – broken up 1719 for rebuild
Southampton (1693) – broken up 1699 for rebuild
Norwich (1693) – broken up 1712 for rebuild
Dartmouth (1693) – captured by France 1695, recaptured 1702, renamed Vigo, wrecked 1703
Anglesea (1694) – broken up 1719
Ordered 16 November 1693 (130 ft group)
Colchester (23 October 1694) – wrecked 1704
Romney (23 October 1694) – wrecked 1707
Lichfield (4 February 1695) – broken up 1720 for rebuild
Lincoln (19 February 1695) – sank 1703
Coventry (20 April 1695) – captured by France 1704, recaptured 1709
Severn (16 September 1695) – broken up 1734 for rebuild
Burlington (16 September 1695) – broken up 1733
Ordered 18 November 1694 (130 ft group)
Harwich (14 September 1695) – wrecked 1700
Pendennis (15 October 1695) – captured by France 1705
Ordered 1695 (130 ft group)
Blackwall (1696) – captured by France 1705
Guernsey (1696) – broken up 1716 for rebuild
Nonsuch (1696) – broken up 1716 for rebuild
Warwick (1696) – broken up 1709 for rebuild
Hampshire 50 (1698) – broken up 1739
Winchester 50 (1698) – broken up 1716 for rebuild
Salisbury 50 (1698) – captured by France 1703, recaptured 1708, renamed Salisbury Prize, renamed Preston 1716, broken up 1739 for rebuild
Worcester 50 (1698) – broken up 1713 for rebuild
Dartmouth 42 (1698) – broken up 1714 for rebuild
Jersey 50 (1698) – hulked 1731, sunk 1763
Carlisle 50 (1698) – blew up 1700
Tilbury 50 (1699) – broken up 1726 for rebuild
Other 50-Gun Ships (purchased)
Falkland (c. 1690) – built by Holland at Newcastle, New England and purchased 1696, rebuilt 1702
= Major rebuilds
=First rates
Royal William 100 (1692) – ex-Prince, rebuilt 1719
Queen 100 (1693) – ex-Royal Charles, rebuilt 1715, renamed Royal George
Victory 100 (1695) – ex-Royal James, burnt 1721 and broken up
Third rates
Royal Oak 74 (1690) – rebuilt 1713
Defiance 64 (1695) – rebuilt 1707
Swiftsure 66 (1696) – rebuilt 1716 and renamed Revenge
Fourth rates
Crown 46 (1689) – rebuilt 1703–04
Dragon 46 (1690) – rebuilt 1706–07
Newcastle 52 (1692) – foundered during Great Storm of 1703
Bristol 50 (1693) – captured 1709
Dover 50 (1695) – rebuilt 1716
= Captured ships, War of 1689–1697
=Content 70 (1686) – ex-French captured 29 January 1695, hulk 1703, sold 1715
Ruby Prize 48 (1695) – ex-French captured 1695, sold 1698
Trident 58 (1695) – ex-French, captured 29 January 1695, scuttled as breakwater 1701
Medway Prize 50 (1697) – ex-French privateer, captured 30 April 1697 and then purchased for the Navy 20 August 1697, hulk 1699, scuttled as a foundation 1712
List of ships-of-the-line of the Royal Navy (1697–1719)
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, ISBN 0-85177-252-8
= 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
Assistance (1699) – rebuilt 1712
Bonaventure (1699) – rebuilt 1711
Greenwich (1699) – rebuilt 1730
Kingfisher (1699) – hulked 1706, broken up 1728
Deptford (1700) – rebuilt 1719
Southampton (1700) – hulked 1728, broken up 1771
Reserve (1701) – foundered 1703
Tiger (1702) – rebuilt 1722
Falkland (1702) – rebuilt 1720
Crown (1704) – wrecked 1719
Ruby (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
August 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)
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. 169–171 The Ship of the Line Volume I, by Brian Lavery, pub Conways, 1983, ISBN 0-85177-252-8
= 1719 Establishment
=First rates of 100 guns
Royal Sovereign 100 (1728) – broken up 1768
Second rates of 90 guns
Prince George 90 (1723) – Burnt by accident 1768
Union 90 (1726) – broken up 1749
Namur 90 (1729) – reduced to 74 guns 1745, wrecked 1749
Neptune 90 (1730) – renamed Torbay and reduced to 74 guns 1750, sold 1784
Marlborough 90 (1732) – reduced to 68 guns 1752, foundered 1762
Third rates of 80 guns
Lancaster 80 (1722) – rebuilt 1749
Princess Amelia 80 (1723) – ex-Humber, broken up 1752
Cornwall 80 (1726) – broken up 1761
Norfolk 80 (1728) – renamed Princess Amelia 1755, broken up 1757
Somerset 80 (1731) – broken up 1746
Princess Caroline 80 (1731) – ex-Ranelagh, broken up 1764
Russell 80 (1735) – sunk as a breakwater 1762
Third rates of 70 guns
Edinburgh 70 (1721) – ex-Warspite, rebuilt 1744
Northumberland 70 (1721) – rebuilt 1743
Burford 70 (1722) – broken up 1752
Captain 70 (1722) – hulked 1739, broken up 1762
Stirling Castle 70 (1723) – hulked 1739, broken up 1771
Berwick 70 (1723) – hulked 1743, broken up 1763
Lenox 70 (1723) – sunk as a breakwater 1756
Kent 70 (1724) – broken up 1744
Grafton 70 (1725) – broken up 1744
Ipswich 70 (1730) – hulked 1757, broken up 1764
Buckingham 70 (1731) – broken up 1745
Prince of Orange 70 (1734) – reduced to 60 guns 1748, sheer hulk 1772, sold 1810
Fourth rates of 60 guns
Canterbury 60 (1722) – rebuilt 1744
Plymouth 60 (1722) – broken up 1764
Sunderland 60 (1724) – rebuilt 1744
Windsor 60 (1729) – rebuilt 1745
Deptford 60 (1732) – reduced to 50 guns 1752, sold 1767
Swallow 60 (1732) – broken up 1742
Tilbury 60 (1733) – burnt 1742
Warwick 60 (1733) – captured 1756
Pembroke 60 (1733) – wrecked 1749
Dunkirk 60 (1734) – wrecked 1749
Fourth rates of 50 guns
Falkland 50 (1720) – rebuilt 1744
Chatham 50 (1721) – sunk as a breakwater 1749
Colchester 50 (1721) – broken up 1742
Leopard 50 (1721) – broken up 1739
Argyll 50 (1722) – sunk as a breakwater 1748
Portland 50 (1723) – broken up 1743
Assistance 50 (1725) – sunk as a breakwater 1745
Romney 50 (1726) – sold 1757
Salisbury 50 (1726) – hulked 1744, sold 1749
Oxford 50 (1727) – broken up 1758
Falmouth 50 (1729) – broken up 1747
Lichfield 50 (1730) – broken up 1744
Greenwich 50 (1730) – wrecked 1744
Newcastle 50 (1732) – broken up 1746
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.
= Non-Establishment 60-gun ships
=Centurion 60 (1732) – Used by Anson in his world voyage, reduced to 50 guns 1744, broken up 1769
Rippon 60 (1735) – broken up 1751
= 1733 Proposals
=First rate of 100 guns
Victory 100 (1737) – wrecked 1744
Second rates of 90 guns
Duke 90 (1739) – broken up 1769
St George 90 (1740) – broken up 1774
Third rates of 80 guns
Boyne 80 (1739) – broken up 1763
Cumberland 80 (1739) – reduced to 66 guns in 1747, foundered 1760
Third rates of 70 guns
Elizabeth 70 (1737) – broken up 1766
Suffolk 70 (1739) – broken up 1765
Essex 70 (1740) – wrecked 1759
Nassau 70 (1740) – sold 1770
Prince Frederick 70 (1740) – sold 1784
Bedford 70 (1741) – hulked 1767, sold 1787
Royal Oak 70 (1741) – hulked 1757, broken up 1763
Stirling Castle 70 (1742) – lost 1762
Monmouth 70 (1742) – broken up 1767
Revenge 70 (1742) – sold 1787
Captain 70 (1743) – reduced to 64 guns 1760, storeship 1777, broken up 1783
Berwick 70 (1743) – broken up 1760
Fourth rates of 60 guns
Strafford 60 (1735) – scuttled as a breakwater 1756
Worcester 60 (1735) – broken up 1765
Weymouth 60 (1736) – wrecked 1745
Augusta 60 (1736) – broken up 1765
Dragon 60 (1736) – scuttled as breakwater 1757
Jersey 60 (1736) – hospital ship 1771, abandoned 1783
Superb 60 (1736) – broken up 1757
Lion 60 (1738) – sold 1765
Kingston 60 (1740) – sold 1762
Rupert 60 (1740) – Rebuild of 1713 Rupert to a different design, broken up 1769
Dreadnought 60 (1742) – sold 1784
Medway 60 (1740) – broken up 1749
Princess Mary 60 (1742) – Sold 1762
Exeter 60 (1744) – broken up 1763
Nottingham 60 (1745) – scuttled as breakwater 1773
Fourth rates of 50 guns
Gloucester 50 (1737) – damaged in storm and burnt to avoid capture 1742
St Albans 50 (1737) – wrecked 1744
Severn 50 (1739) – captured by France 1746
Guernsey 50 (1740) – hulk 1769, sold 1786
Hampshire 50 (1741) – broken up 1766
Leopard 50 (1741) – broken up 1761
Nonsuch 50 (1741) – broken up 1766
Sutherland 50 (1741) – sold 1770
Antelope 50 (1742) – sold 1783
Dartmouth 50 (1741) – sunk 1747 in action with the Spanish ship of the line Glorioso
Woolwich 50 (1741) – broken up 1747
Preston 50 (1742) – hulk 1748, broken up 1749
= Smaller ships (fifth rates)
=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.
List of ships-of-the-line of the Royal Navy (1741–55)
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. 171-175 The Ship of the Line Volume I, by Brian Lavery, pub Conways, 1983, ISBN 0-85177-252-8
= 1741 proposals
=First rates of 100 guns
None built
Second rates of 90 guns
Ramillies 90 (1749) – wrecked 1760
Prince 90 (1750) – broken up 1773
Third rates of 80 guns
Newark 80 (1747) – broken up 1787
Lancaster 80 (1749) – completed as a ship of 66 guns. broken up 1773
Devonshire 80 (1745) – cut down and reduced to a 74-gun ship 1747, then immediately reduced further to a 66-gun ship. Broken up 1772
Culloden 80 (1747) – re-ordered and completed as a ship of 74 guns. sold 1770
Somerset 80 (-) – re-ordered as a ship of 66 guns, but cancelled 1748
Third rates of 70 guns (the ships were all re-classed as 64-gun ships)
Northumberland 66 (1743) – captured 1744
Edinburgh 66 (1744) – broken up 1771
Hampton Court 66 (1744) – broken up 1774
Kent 64 (1746) – hulked 1760
modified from the 1741 Establishment (lengthened by 6 ft)
Yarmouth 64 (1745) – reduced to 60 guns in 1781, broken up 1811
Fourth rates of 58 guns (classed as 58s, those ships actually had 62 gun ports)
Princess Louisa 58 (1744) – broken up 1766
Defiance 58 (1744) – sold 1766
Canterbury 58 (1744) – harbour service 1761, broken up 1770
Sunderland 58 (1745) – foundered 1761
Tilbury 58 (1745) – foundered 1757
Eagle 58 (1745) – sold 1767
Non-Establishment 60 gun ship
Windsor 58 (1745) – sold 1777
Fourth rates of 50 guns
Chester 50 (1743) – sold 1767
Harwich 50 (1743) – wrecked 1760
Winchester 50 (1744) – sold 1769
Maidstone 50 (1744) – wrecked 1747
Colchester 50 (1744) – wrecked 1744
Portland 50 (1744) – sold 1763
Falkland 50 (1744) – given to victualling depot 1768
Salisbury 50 (1745) – condemned 1761
Advice 50 (1745) – broken up 1756
Gloucester 50 (1745) – broken up 1764
Norwich 50 (1745) – sold 1768
Ruby 50 (1745) – broken up 1765
Colchester 50 (1746) – broken up 1773
Lichfield 50 (1746) – wrecked 1758
Panther 50 (1746) – broken up 1756
Bristol class – Non-Establishment 50-gun ships (lengthened by 6 feet)
Bristol (1746) – broken up 1768
Rochester (1749) – sold 1770
= 1745 Establishment
=First rates of 100 guns
Royal George 100 (1756) – foundered 1782
Britannia 100 (1762) – renamed Princess Royal 1810, St George 1812, St Barfleur 1819, broken up 1825
Second rates of 90 guns
None built
Third rates of 80 guns
Princess Amelia 80 (1757) – lent to customs 1788, sold 1818
Third rates of 70 guns
Vanguard 70 (1748) – sold 1774
Somerset 70 (1748) – wrecked 1778
Orford 70 (1749) – harbour service 1777, sunk as a breakwater 1783
Grafton 70 (1750) – sold 1767
Swiftsure 70 (1750) – sold 1773
Northumberland 70 (1750) – renamed Leviathan storeship 1777, foundered 1779
Buckingham 70 (1751) – renamed Grampus storeship 1771, lost 1778
Fourth rates of 60 guns
St Albans 60 (1747) – sold 1765
Anson 60 (1747) – sold 1773
Tiger 60 (1747) – hulked 1760, sold 1765
Weymouth 60 (1752) – broken up 1772
Medway class (Allin, modified from the 1745 Establishment)
Medway 60 (1755) – receiving ship 1787, broken up 1811
York 60 (1753) – broken up 1772
Fourth rates of 50 guns
Assistance 50 (1747) – sold 1773.
Greenwich 50 (1747) – captured by France 1757.
Tavistock 50 (1747) – hulked 1761, broken up 1768.
Falmouth 50 (1752) – abandoned aground 1765.
Newcastle 50 (1750) – wrecked 1761.
Dartmouth 50 (-) – cancelled 1748.
Severn 50 (1747) – sold 1759.
Woolwich 50 (-) – cancelled 1748.
= 1745 Establishment, as amended in 1750
=Second rates of 90 guns
Namur 90 (1755) – reduced to 74 in 1805, harbour service 1807, broken up 1833
Union 90 (1756) – hospital ship 1799, broken up 1816
Neptune 90 (1757) – sheer hulk 1799, broken up 1816
Third rate of 80 guns
Cambridge 80 (1755) – harbour service 1793, broken up 1808
Third rate of 70 guns
Chichester 70 (1753) – broken up 1803
Fourth rates of 60 guns
Dunkirk class (Allin)
Dunkirk 60 (1754) – harbour service 1778, sold 1792
Achilles 60 (1757) – hulked 1778
America 60 (1757) – broken up 1771
Montague class ("Admiralty" design)
Montague 60 (1757) – sunk as a breakwater 1774
Fourth rate of 50 guns
Preston 50 (1757) – sheer hulk 1785, broken up 1815.
= 1745 Establishment, as amended in 1752
=Fourth rates of 60 guns
Pembroke class, (Allin, lines similar to the draught of the Monarch, a French 74, captured in 1747)
Pembroke 60 (1757) – hulked 1776, broken up 1793
Rippon class (Allin)
Rippon 60 (1758) – harbour service 1801, broken up 1808
Fourth rate of 50 guns
Chatham 50 (1758) – harbour service 1793, renamed Tilbury 1805/10, broken up 1814
= 1745 Establishment, as amended in 1754
=Third rates of 68 guns
Burford class
Burford 68 (1757) – sold 1785
Dorsetshire 68 (1757) – broken up 1775
Boyne 68 (1766) – broken up 1783
= 1745 Establishment, as amended in 1756
=Temple class copied from 1745 Establishment Vanguard
Temple 68 (1758) – sank 1762
Conqueror 68 (1758) – wrecked 1760
= Captured ships, War of 1739–48
=Princess 70 (1740) – ex-Spanish Princessa captured 8 April 1740, hulk 1760, sold 1784
Vigilant 58 (1745) – ex-French Le Vigilant captured 19 May 1745, sold 1759
Portland's Prize 50 (1746) – ex-French L'Auguste, captured 9 February 1746, sold 1749
Mars 64 (1746) – ex-French Le Mars captured 11 October 1746, wrecked 1755
Intrepid 64 (1747) – ex-French Le Sérieux captured 3 May 1747 at First Battle of Cape Finisterre, broken up 1765
Invincible 74 (1747) – ex-French L'Invincible captured 3 May 1747 at First Battle of Cape Finisterre, wrecked 1758
Isis 50 (1747) – ex-French Le Diamant 56 captured 3 May 1747 at First Battle of Cape Finisterre, sold 1766
Monarch 74 (1747) – ex-French Le Monarque, captured 14 October 1747 at Second Battle of Cape Finisterre, sold 1760
Terrible 74 (1747) – ex-French Le Terrible, captured 14 October 1747 at Second Battle of Cape Finisterre, broken up 1763
Fougueux 64 (1747) – ex-French Le Fougueux captured 14 October 1747 at Second Battle of Cape Finisterre, broken up 1759
Trident 64 (1747) – ex-French Trident captured 14 October 1747 at Second Battle of Cape Finisterre, sold 1763
Magnanime 74 (1748) – ex-French Le Magnanime captured 31 January 1748, broken up 1775
Other captured ships
Rubis – ex-French Rubis 52, captured 3 May 1747 at First Battle of Cape Finisterre, was added to the Royal Navy as a sixth rate of 26 guns.
Jason 50 – ex-French Jason, captured 3 May 1747 at First Battle of Cape Finisterre, was added to the Royal Navy as a fifth rate of 44 guns.
Severn – ex-French Severn 50/56 (originally the British Severn, taken by the French in 1746), was re-captured 14 October 1747 at the Second Battle of Cape Finisterre, but was not restored to British service.
The ex-French Neptune 70/74, captured 14 October 1747 at Second Battle of Cape Finisterre, was not added to the British Navy.
Glory – ex-Spanish Glorioso captured 1747, was not added to the British Navy.
= Other ships
=Two ships of 74 guns were ordered in January 1748 from Chatham and Woolwich Dockyards, but with the end of the War of Austrian Succession both were cancelled in 1748.
List of ships-of-the-line of the Royal Navy (1755–85)
By or soon after the appointment of Baron George Anson as First Lord of the Admiralty in 1751, the system of establishments that covered the design of British warships was abandoned, and with the appointment of Thomas Slade and William Bately as joint holders of the post of Surveyor of the Navy in 1755, new principles governed the composition of the battle fleet. The Navy Board stopped building any further three-decker 80-gun ships. Production of the 70-gun and 60-gun ships also ceased. Instead, new 74-gun and 64-gun ships replaced these classes. Although 50-gun and 44-gun two-deckers continued to be built for cruising duties, the Navy no longer considered the 50-gun ships powerful enough to serve as ships of the line.
Number of main guns follows name (see rating system of the Royal Navy)
= First rate of 100 guns (three-deckers)
=Victory class (Slade)
Victory 100 (1765) – "great repair" 1801–03, flagship at the Battle of Trafalgar 1805, 1805–08 modernised and re-rated as 98-gun second rate, hulked at Portsmouth 1824, dry-docked 1922, converted during the 1920s to her 1805 appearance, preserved in commission at Portsmouth as the only remaining ship of the line
Royal Sovereign class (Williams)
Royal Sovereign 100 (1786) – broken up 1841
Umpire class (Hunt)
Royal George 100 (1788) – broken up 1822
Queen Charlotte 100 (1790) – an accidental fire in 1800 destroyed her and killed 673 of her crew of 859
Queen Charlotte 104 (1810) – renamed Excellent 1860, broken up 1892
= Second rates of 90 guns [later 98 guns] (three-deckers)
=Sandwich class (Slade)
Sandwich 90 (1759) – floating battery 1780, harbour service 1790, broken up 1810
Blenheim 90 (1761) – reduced to 74 in 1800; foundered, presumably off Madagascar, with all hands 1807
Ocean 90 (1761) – Modified version of the Sandwich class, sold 1793
London class (Slade)
London 90 (1766) – broken up 1811
Barfleur class (Slade, based on Royal William)
Barfleur 90 (1768) – broken up 1819
Prince George 90 (1772) – broken up 1839
Princess Royal 90 (1773) – broken up 1807
Formidable 90/98 (1777) – broken up 1813
Queen class (Bately)
Queen 90 (1769) – reduced to 74 in 1811, broken up 1821
Duke class (Williams)
Duke 98 (1777) – broken up 1843
St George 98 (1785) – wrecked 1811 off the coast of Jutland with the loss of almost her entire crew
Glory 98 (1788) – broken up 1825
Atlas 98 (1782) – broken up 1821
Revived London class (Slade)
Prince 98 (1788) – lengthened by 17 ft in 1796, broken up 1837
Impregnable 98 (1786) – wrecked 1799, with no loss of life, on the Chichester Shoals
Windsor Castle 98 (1790) – razeed to 74-gun-ship 1814, broken up 1839
Boyne class (Hunt)
Boyne 98 (1790) – caught fire by accident and blew up at Spithead 1795
Prince of Wales 98 (1794) – broken up 1822.
= Third rates of 80 guns (two-deckers)
=Caesar class (Hunt)
Caesar 80 (1793) – 1814 hulked – used as army depot at Portsmouth, broken up 1821
= Third rates of 74 guns (two-deckers)
=Dublin class (Slade)
Dublin 74 (1757) – the first British "74". Broken up 1784
Norfolk 74 (1757) – broken up 1774
Lenox 74 (1758) – scuttled 1784
Mars 74 (1759) – sold 1784
Shrewsbury 74 (1758) – condemned 1783
Warspite 74 (1758) – broken up 1802
Resolution 74 (1758) – wrecked 1759
Fame class (Bately)
Fame 74 (1759) – renamed Guilford c. 1799, sold 1814
Hero class (Slade)
Hero 74 (1759) – broken up 1810
Hercules class (Slade) – modified Hero class
Hercules 74 (1759) – sold 1784
Thunderer 74 (1760) – wrecked 1780
Bellona class (Slade)
Bellona 74 (1760) – broken up 1814
Dragon 74 (1760) – sold 1784
Superb 74 (1760) – wrecked 1783
Kent 74 (1762) – sold 1784
Defence 74 (1763) – wrecked 1811
Valiant class – modified Dublin class
Valiant (1759) – broken up 1826
Triumph (1764) – broken up 1850
Arrogant class (Slade) – modified Bellona class
Arrogant 74 (1761) – broken up 1810
Cornwall 74 (1761) – scuttled/burnt 1780
Edgar 74 (1779) – broken up 1835
Goliath 74 (1781) – razéed to 58 guns 1813, broken up 1815
Zealous 74 (1785) – broken up 1816
Audacious 74 (1785) – broken up 1815
Elephant 74 (1786) – razéed to 58 guns 1818, broken up 1830
Bellerophon 74 (1786) – sold 1836
Saturn 74 (1786) – razéed to 58 guns 1813, broken up 1868
Vanguard 74 (1787) – broken up 1821
Excellent 74 (1787) – razéed to 58 guns 1820, broken up 1835
Illustrious 74 (1789) – wrecked 1795
Canada class (Bately)
Canada 74 (1765) – re-classed as 76 in 1780, hulked. Receiving ship at Chatham 1810, powder magazine 1814, convict ship 1826, broken up 1834.
Majestic 74 (1785) – razéed to 58 guns 1813, broken up 1816
Orion 74 (1787) – broken up 1814
Captain 74 (1787) – hulked, receiving ship at Plymouth 1809, burnt by accident and broken up 1813
Albion class (Slade)
Albion 74 (1763) – floating battery 1794, wrecked 1797
Grafton 74 (1771) – broken up 1816
Alcide 74 (1779) – broken up 1817
Fortitude 74 (1780) – broken up 1820
Irresistible 74 (1782) – broken up 1806
Ramillies class (Slade)
Ramillies 74 (1763) – fire 1782
Monarch 74 (1765) – broken up 1813
Magnificent 74 (1766) – wrecked 1804
Marlborough 74 (1767) – wrecked 1800
Suffolk class (Bately)
Suffolk 74 (1765) – broken up 1803
Modified Ramillies class (Slade)
Terrible 74 (1762) – fire 1781
Russell 74 (1764) – sold 1811
Invincible 74 (1765) – wrecked 1801
Robust 74 (1764) – broken up 1817
Prince of Wales 74 (1765) – ex-Hibernia, broken up 1783
Modified Suffolk class (Bately)
Ajax 74 (1765) – sold 1785
Royal Oak class (Williams)
Royal Oak 74 (1769) – broken up 1815
Conqueror 74 (1773) – broken up 1794
Bedford 74 (1775) – broken up 1817
Hector 74 (1774) – broken up 1816
Vengeance 74 (1774) – broken up 1816
Sultan 74 (1775) – broken up 1816
Egmont class (Slade)
Egmont 74 (1768) – broken up 1799
Elizabeth class (Slade)
Elizabeth 74 (1769) – broken up 1797
Resolution 74 (1770) – broken up 1813
Cumberland 74 (1774) – broken up 1804
Berwick 74 (1775) – captured by France 1795, recaptured and wrecked, 1805
Bombay Castle 74 (1782) – wrecked 1796
Powerful 74 (1783) – broken up 1812
Defiance 74 (1783) – broken up 1817
Swiftsure 74 (1787) – captured by France 1801, same name, recaptured at the Battle of Trafalgar, 1805, renamed Irresistible 1805, broken up 1816
Culloden class (Slade)
Culloden 74 (1776) – wrecked 1781
Thunderer 74 (1783) – broken up 1814
Venerable 74 (1784) – wrecked 1804
Victorious 74 (1785) – broken up 1803
Ramillies 74 (1785) – broken up 1850
Terrible 74 (1785) – broken up 1836
Hannibal 74 (1786) – captured by France 1801
Theseus 74 (1786) – broken up 1814
Alfred class (Williams)
Alfred 74 (1778) – broken up 1814
Alexander 74 (1778) – broken up 1819
Warrior 74 (1781) – broken up 1857
Montague 74 (1779) – broken up 1818
Ganges class (Hunt), also known as Culloden class
Ganges 74 (1782) – broken up 1816
Culloden 74 (1783) – broken up 1813
Tremendous 74 (1784) – sold 1897
Invincible 74 (1808) – broken up 1861
Minden 74 (1810) – sold 1861
Minotaur 74 (1816) – renamed Hermes
Carnatic class built to the lines of the French Courageux (capture of 1761)
Leviathan 74 (1790) – hulked 1816
Carnatic 74 (1783) – hulked 1805
Colossus 74 (1787) – wrecked 1798
Minotaur 74 (1793) – wrecked 1810
= Third rates of 64 guns (two-deckers)
=Asia class (Slade)
Asia 64 (1764) – broken up 1804
Essex class (Slade) – modified Asia class
Essex 64 (1760) – sold 1779/99
Africa 64 (1761) – sold 1774
St Albans class (Slade)
St Albans 64 (1764) – broken up 1814
Augusta 64 (1763) – burnt 1777
Director 64 (1784) – broken up 1801
Exeter class (Bately)
Exeter 64 (1763) – burnt 1784
Europa 64 (1765) – broken up 1814
Trident 64 (1768) – sold 1816
Prudent 64 (1768) – sold 1814
Ardent class (Slade)
Ardent 64 (1764) – captured 1779, recaptured 1782, sold 1784
Raisonnable 64 (1768) – broken up 1815
Agamemnon 64 (1781) – wrecked 1809
Belliqueux 64 (1781) – broken up 1816
Stately 64 (1784)
Nassau 64 (1785) – wrecked 1799
Indefatigable 64 (1784) – razéed to 44-gun frigate 1794, broken up 1816
Worcester class (Slade)
Worcester 64 (1769) – hulked at Deptford 1788, broken up 1816
Lion 64 (1777) – sold for breaking 1837
Stirling Castle 64 (1775) – wrecked 1780
Intrepid class (Williams)
Intrepid 64 (1770) – sold for breaking 1828.
Monmouth 64 (1772) – broken up 1818.
Defiance 64 (1772) – sank 1780.
Nonsuch 64 (1774) – broken up 1802.
Ruby 64 (1776) – broken up 1821.
Vigilant 64 (1774) – broken up 1816.
Eagle 64 (1774) – broken up 1812.
America 64 (1777) – broken up 1807.
Anson 64 (1781) – razéed to 44-gun frigate 1794, wrecked 1807
Polyphemus 64 (1782) – broken up 1827.
Magnanime 64 (1780) – razéed to 44-gun frigate 1794, broken up 1813.
Sampson 64 (1781) – sold for breaking 1832.
Repulse 64 (1780) – wrecked 1800.
Diadem 64 (1782) – broken up 1832.
Standard 64 (1782) – broken up 1816.
Inflexible class (Williams)
Inflexible 64 (1780) – storeship 1793–95, troopship 1800–07, hulked as floating magazine Halifax Nova Scotia 1809, broken up 1820
Africa 64 (1781) – hospital ship 1795–1805, broken up 1814
Dictator 64 (1783) – troopship 1798–1803, floating battery 1803–05, troopship 1813, broken up 1817
Sceptre 64 (1781) – wrecked at Table Bay 5 December 1799
Crown class (Hunt)
Crown 64 (1782) – hulked 1798
Ardent 64 (1782) – blew up 1794
Scipio 64 (1782) – broken up 1798
Veteran 64 (1787) – hulked 1809
= Fourth rates of 60 guns (two-deckers)
=Edgar class (Slade)
Edgar 60/64 (1758) – scuttled 1774
Panther 60 (1758) – broken up 1813
Firm 60 (1759) – sold 1791
= Fourth rates of 50 guns (two-deckers)
=Note that from 1756 onward the 50-gun ships were no longer counted as ships of the line as the Navy no longer considered them powerful enough to stand in the line of battle.
Warwick class (Bately)
Warwick 50 (1767) – sold 1802
Romney class (Slade)
Romney 50 (1762) – wrecked 1804, with the loss of nine lives, on the Haaks on South Sand Head due to the fog and the ignorance of the pilots
Salisbury class (Slade) – modified Romney class
Salisbury 50 (1769) – wrecked, without loss of life, 1796 on the Isle of Vache near St. Domingo in the West Indies
Centurion 50 (1774) – sank at her moorings at Halifax 1824, refloated, broken up 1825
Portland class (Williams)
Portland 50 (1770) – sold 1817
Bristol 50 (1775) – broken up 1810
Renown 50 (1774) – broken up 1794
Isis 50 (1774) – broken up 1810
Leopard 50 (1790) – wrecked 1814 near the Isle of Anacosti in the Saint Lawrence River due to the disobedience and neglect of the officer of the watch
Hannibal 50 (1779) – captured by France 1782
Jupiter 50 (1778) – wrecked 1808, with no loss of life, in Vigo Bay
Leander 50 (1780) – captured by France 1798, captured by Russia 1799, returned to Britain, converted to hospital ship 1806, renamed Hygeia 1813, sold 1817
Adamant 50 (1780) – broken up 1814
Assistance 50 (1781) – wrecked 1802 on the outer banks of the northern part of Dunkirk Dyke due to the ignorance of her pilot, but with no loss of life due to the help of a Flemish pilot boat
Europa 50 (1783) – sold 1814
Experiment class (Williams)
Experiment 50 (1774) – captured by France 1779
Medusa 50 (1785) – wrecked 1798
Grampus class (Hunt)
Grampus 50 (1782) – broken up 1794
Cato 50 (1782) – disappeared 1782
Trusty class (Hunt)
Trusty 50 (1782) – broken up 1815
= Captured ships
=Alcide 64 (1743, ex-French Alcide, captured 1755); sold 1772
Lys 64 (1746, ex-French Lys, captured 1755)
Duc d'Aquitaine 64 (1754, ex-French Duc d'Aquitaine, captured 1757)
Foudroyant 80 (1750, ex-French Foudroyant, captured 1758); broken up 1787
Raisonnable 64 (1756, ex-French Rainsonnable, captured 1758); lost 1762
Bienfaisant 64 (1754, ex-French Bienfaisant, captured 1758); broken up 1814
Belliqueux 64 (1756, ex-French Belliqueux, captured 1758); broken up 1772
Modeste 64 (1759, ex-French Modeste, captured 1759); broken up 1800
Centaur 74 (1757, ex-French Centaure, captured 1759); foundered 1782 with the loss of most of her crew
Temeraire 74 (1749, ex-French Téméraire, captured 1759); sold 1784
Formidable 80 (1751, ex-French Formidable, captured 1759); broken up 1768
Courageux 74 (1753, ex-French Courageux, captured 1761) wrecked 1796
Belleisle 64 (1760, ex-French Belleisle, captured 1761); sold 1819
Saint Ann 64 (1759, ex-French Saint Ann, captured 1761)
San Antonio 70 (1761, ex-Spanish San Antonio, captured 1762); sold 1775
Prince William 64 (ex-Spanish Guipuscoana, captured 1780) Converted to a Sheer Hulk 1790, broken up 1817
Gibraltar 80 (1749, ex-Spanish Fenix, captured 1780) – broken up 1836
Princessa 70 (1750, ex-Spanish Princessa, captured 1780) Converted to a Sheer Hulk 1784, broken up 1809
Monarca 70 (1756, ex-Spanish Monarca, captured 1780) Sold 1791
Diligent 70 (1756, ex-Spanish Diligente, captured 1780)
San Miguel 70 (1773, ex-Spanish San Miguel, captured 1780)
Prothee 64 (1772, ex-French Protée, captured 1780) Converted to a Prison Ship 1799, Broken up 1815
Princess Caroline (ex-Dutch, captured 1780) – Scuttled 1799
Rotterdam 50 (ex-Dutch, captured 1781) – sold 1806
Caesar 74 (ex-French César, captured 1782) – Blew up 1782
Hector 74 (1755, ex-French Hector, captured 1782)
Glorieux 74 (1756, ex-French Glorieux, captured 1782)
Pegase 74 (1781, ex-French Glorieux, captured 1782) Converted to a Prison Ship 1799, Broken up 1815
Caton 64 (1777, ex-French Caton, captured 1782) Sold 1815
Argonaut 64 (1779, ex-French Jason, captured 1782) Broken up 1831
Solitaire 64 (1774, ex-French Solitaire, captured 1782) Sold 1790
List of ships-of-the-line of the Royal Navy (1785–1830)
= First rates of 120 guns (three-deckers)
=Caledonia class (Rule)
Caledonia 120 (1808) – renamed Dreadnought, broken up 1875
Britannia 120 (1820) – broken up 1869
Prince Regent 120 (1823) – converted to screw, broken up 1873
Royal George 120 (1827) – converted to screw, broken up 1875
Nelson class ('Surveyors' = Rule & Peake)
Nelson 120 (1814) – 1859–60 cut down to 91-gun 2-decker and converted to screw, 1867 given to New South Wales Government and fitted as school ship, 1898 sold, 1928 broken up. No sea service as either sail or steam line-of-battle ship.
Saint Vincent 120 (1815) – sold 1906
Howe 120 (1815) – broken up 1854
Saint George class – broadened version of Caledonia
Saint George 120 (1840) – sold 1883
Royal William 120 (1833) – laid down as 120-gun ship. Burnt 1899
Neptune 120 (1832) – cut down to 2-decker and converted to 2-decker steam line-of-battle ship 1859, broken up 1875,
Waterloo 120 (1833) – cut down to an 89-gun 2-decker and converted to steam in 1859, and was renamed Conqueror in 1862. In 1877, she was renamed Warspite and served as a training ship at Greenhithe/Woolwich. She burned accidentally in 1918.
Trafalgar 120 (1841) – laid down as 106-gun ship. Sold 1906
= First rates of 112 guns (three-deckers)
=Wolfe class
Wolfe 112 (-) – Laid down 1814, construction suspended in 1815 and cancelled 1831. Destroyed in a storm 1832.
Canada 112 (-) – Laid down 1814, construction suspended in 1815. Cancelled in 1831 and broken up.
= First rates of 110 guns (three-deckers)
=Ville de Paris class (Henslow)
Ville de Paris 110 (1795) – hulked 1825, broken up 1845.
Hibernia class (Henslow) – lengthened version of Ville de Paris
Hibernia 110 (1804) – sold 1902
Ocean class (Henslow) – lengthened version of Neptune class Second Rates
Ocean 110 (1805) – cut down to 80-gun 2-decker 1821, hulked 1831, coal depot 1852, broken up 1875
= First rates of 100–104 guns (three-deckers) – later rated as 110 guns
=Impregnable class (Rule)
Impregnable 104 (1810) – harbour flagship Plymouth 1839, hulked as training ship 1862, renamed Kent 1883, renamed Caledonia 1891, sold 1906
St. Lawrence class
St Lawrence 102 (1814) – laid down 1814. Operated only on Lake Ontario. Decommissioned 1815 and sold 1832.
Trafalgar class (Rule) – modified Impregnable
Trafalgar 100 (1820) – renamed Camperdown 1825, hulked as coal deport Portsmouth 1860, renamed Pitt 1882, sold 1906
Princess Charlotte class (Rule) – modified Impregnable
Princess Charlotte 104 (1825) – hulked as floating barracks Hong Kong 1857, sold 1875
Royal Adelaide 104 (1828) – ex-London, 1869 hulked as flag and receiving ship Plymouth, to Chatham 1891, sold 1905
= Second rates of 98 guns (three-deckers)
=Neptune class (Henslow)
Dreadnought 98 (1801) – broken up 1857.
Neptune 98 (1797) – broken up 1818.
Temeraire 98 (1798) – broken up 1838.
Boyne class – built to the lines of Slade's Victory
Boyne 98 (1810) – renamed Excellent 1834, broken up 1861
Union 98 (1811) – broken up 1833
= Second rates of 90/92 guns (two-deckers)
=Rodney class (Seppings)
Rodney 92 (1833) – converted to screw 1860, broken up 1882
Nile 92 (1839) – converted to screw 1854, destroyed by fire 1956
London 92 (1840) – converted to screw 1858, sold 1884
= Second rates of 84 guns (two-deckers)
=Formidable class (Seppings) – lines of the Canopus (ex-French Franklin, captured at the Battle of the Nile in 1798), but structurally different; although Canopus was not considered a member of the class, the class are often known as the 'Canopus class'.
Formidable 84 (1825) – sold 1906
Modified Formidable class built in teak in India
Ganges 84 (1821) – sold 1929
Asia 84 (1824) – flagship at the Battle of Navarino, 1827, sold 1908
Bombay 84 (1828) – converted to screw 1861, destroyed by accidental fire 1864
Further modified Formidable class built in India
Calcutta 84 (1831) – sold 1908
Modified Formidable class
Monarch 84 (1832) – broken up 1862–66
Vengeance 84 (1824) – sold 1897
Thunderer 84 (1831) – sold 1901
Powerful 84 (1826) – broken up 1860–64
Clarence 84 (1827) – ex-Goliath, accidentally burnt in the Mersey in 1884
= Third rates of 80 guns (two-deckers)
=Foudroyant class (Henslow)
Foudroyant 80 (1798) – hulked as gunnery training ship Plymouth 1861, sold to Wheatley Cobb as boys training ship, wrecked on Blackpool Sands while on a fund raising and propaganda tour
Rochfort class (Barrallier)
Rochfort 80 (1814) – broken up 1826
Sandwich 80 (-) – ordered 1809, keel laid Dec 1809, cancelled 1811
Waterloo class (Peake)
Waterloo 80 (1818) – renamed Bellerophon 1824, became receiving ship Plymouth, sold 1892
Cambridge class – lines of Danish Christian VII taken 1807
Cambridge 80 (1815) – later classed as 82, hulked as gunnery training ship Plymouth 1856, broken up 1869
Indus class – enlarged lines of Danish Christian VII taken 1807
Indus 80 (1839) – hulked 1860 as harbour flagship Plymouth, sold for breaking 1898
Hindostan class – enlarged lines of Repulse
Hindostan 80 (1841) – hulked 1884 as cadet training ship at Dartmouth, training ship for boy artificers at Portsmouth renamed Fishgard III 1905, sold for breaking up 1921
= Third rates of 74 guns (two-deckers)
=Brunswick class ('Admiralty')
Brunswick 74 (1790) – hulked as prison ship Chatham 1812, powder magazine 1814, lazaretto Sheerness 1825, broken up 1826
Mars class (Henslow)
Mars 74 (1794) – hulked as receiving ship Portsmouth 1814, broken up 1819
Centaur 74 (1797) – broken up 1819
Courageux class (Henslow)
Courageux 74 (1800) – hulked as lazaretto Chatham 1814, broken up 1832
Plantagenet class (Rule)
Plantagenet 74 (1801) – broken up 1817
Bulwark class (Rule)
Bulwark 74 (1807) – ex-Scipio, broken up 1826
Valiant – ordered 1826, but not started
Ajax class – modified version of 1757 Valiant class
Ajax 74 (1798) – accidentally burnt off Tenedos 14 & 15 February 1807
Kent 74 (1798) – sheer hulk at Plymouth 1857, broken up 1881
Conqueror class (Henslow) – modified Mars class
Conqueror 74 (1801) – broken up 1822
Dragon class (Rule)
Dragon 74 (1798) – lazaretto at Pembroke 1824, receiving ship and marine barracks 1832, renamed Fame 1842, broken up 1850
America class – lines of French Impetueux taken 1794
Northumberland 74 (1798) – lazaretto at Sheerness 1827, broken up 1850
Renown 74 (1798) – hospital ship Plymouth 1814, later to Deptford(?), broken up 1835(?)
Spencer class (Barralier)
Spencer 74 (1800) – broken up 1822
Achille class – lines of French Pompée taken 1793
Achille 74 (1798) – sold for breaking 1865
Superb 74 (1798) – broken up 1826
Revenge class – lines of French Impetueux taken 1794
Revenge 74 (1806) – broken up 1840
Milford class – lines of French Impetueux taken 1794
Milford 74 (1806) – lazaretto at Pembroke 1825, broken up 1846
Princess Amelia 74 (-) – keel laid 1 January 1799, cancelled March 1800
Colossus class (Henslow)
Colossus 74 (1803) – broken up 1826
Warspite 74 (1807) – cut down to 50-gun frigate 1840, hulked 1862 and lent to Marine Society as training ship, accidentally burnt at Woolwich 1876,
Fame/Hero class (Henslow)
Fame 74 (1805) – broken up 1817
Albion 74 (1802) – lazaretto Portsmouth 1831, broken up 1836
Hero 74 (1803) – wrecked on the Haak Islands 25 December 1811
Illustrious 74 (1803) – hulked as ordinary guard ship Plymouth 1848, hospital ship 1853, reverted to ordinary guard ship 1859, broken up 1868
Marlborough 74 (1807) – broken up 1835
York 74 (1807) – hulked as convict ship Portsmouth 1819, broken up 1835
Hannibal 74 (1810) – lazaretto Plymouth 1825, later to Pembroke(?), broken up 1834
Sultan 74 (1807) – hulked as receiving ship Portsmouth 1861, target ship 1862, broken up 1864
Royal Oak 74 (1809) – hulked as receiving ship Bermuda 1825, broken up 1850
Modified Carnatic class (derived from prize Courageux, taken from the French 1761)
Aboukir 74 (1807) – hulked 1824, sold 1838.
Bombay 74 (1808) – renamed Blake 1819, hulked 1823, broken up 1855.
Swiftsure class (Henslow)
Swiftsure 74 (1804) – hulked as receiving ship Portsmouth 1819, broken up 1845
Victorious 74 (1808) – hulked as receiving ship Portsmouth 1826, broken up 1861
Repulse class (Rule) – Talavera structurally different
Repulse 74 (1803) – broken up 1820
Eagle 74 (1804) – cut down as 50-gun frigate 1831, hulked at Falmouth for the Coastguard 1857, training ship in Southampton Water 1860, to Liverpool 1862, Mersey Division RNVR 1910, renamed Eaglet 1918, burnt 1926, wreck sold for breaking 1927
Sceptre 74 (1802) – broken up 1821
Magnificent 74 (1806) – hulked as receiving ship Jamaica 1823, sold 1843
Valiant 74 (1807) – broken up 1823
Elizabeth 74 (1807) – broken up 1820
Cumberland 74 (1807) – hulked as convict ship and coal deport Chatham, renamed Fortitude 1833, to Sheerness as coal deport by 1856, sold 1870
Venerable 74 (1808) – hulked as church ship Portsmouth, broken up 1838
Talavera 74 (1818) – timbered according to Seppings' principle using smaller timbers than usual. Accidentally burnt at Plymouth Oct 1840, then broken up
Belleisle 74 (1819) – troopship 1841, hulked as hospital ship Sheerness 1854, lent to the seaman's hospital at Greenwich 1866–68, broken up 1872
Malabar 74 (1818) – hulked as coal deport Portsmouth 1848, renamed Myrtle 1883, sold 1905
Blake class – lengthened Leviathan class
Blake 74 (1808) – hulked as temporary prison ship Portsmouth 1814, sold 1816
San Domingo 74 (1809) – sold 1816
Armada or Vengeur class. The most numerous class of British capital ships ever built, with forty vessels being completed to this design (they were popularly known as the "Forty Thieves").
Armada 74 (1810) – sold 1863
Cressy 74 (1810) – 1827 planned to be converted to 50-gun frigate but instead broken up 1832
Vigo 74 (1810) – hulked at receiving ship Plymouth, broken up 1865
Vengeur 74 (1810) – hulked as receiving ship 1824, broken up 1843
Ajax 74 (1809) – converted to 60-gun screw blockship, 1847, broken up 1864
Conquestador 74 (1810) – cut down to 50-gun frigate 1831, hulked War Office powder depot at Purfleet 1856, powder depot Plymouth 1863, sold 1897
Poictiers 74 (1809) – broken up 1857
Berwick 74 (1809) – broken up 1821
Egmont 74 (1810) – hulked as storeship Rio de Janeiro 1863, sold 1875
Clarence 74 (1812) – renamed Centurion 1826 and planned to be converted to 50-gun frigate but instead broken up 1828
Edinburgh 74 (1811) – converted to 60-gun screw blockship 1852, sold 1866
America 74 (1810) – cut down to 50-gun frigate 1835, hulked 1864, broken up 1867
Scarborough 74 (1812) – sold 1836
Asia 74 (1811) – renamed Alfred, cut down to 50-gun frigate 1828, hulked as gunnery trials ship Portsmouth 1858, broken up 1865
Mulgrave 74 (1812) – hulked as a lazaretto Pembroke 1836, powder ship 1844, broken up 1854
Anson 74 (1812) – hulked as temporary lazaretto Portsmouth 1831, by 1843 to Chatham and then to Tasmania as a convict ship, broken up 1851
Gloucester 74 (1812) – cut down to 50-gun frigate 1835, hulked as receiving ship Chatham 1861, sold 1884
Rodney 74 (1809) – renamed Greenwich 1827 and cut down to 50-gun frigate, but conversion probably never completed, sold 1836
La Hogue 74 (1811) – converted to 60-gun screw blockship 1848, broken up 1865
Dublin 74 (1812) – cut down to 50-gun frigate 1836, laid up 1845, sold 1885
Barham 74 (1811) – cut down to 50-gun frigate 1836, broken up 1840
Benbow 74 (1813) – hulked as marine barracks Sheerness 1848, prison ship for Russians 1854, coal deport 1859, sold for breaking 1894
Stirling Castle 74 (1811) – hulked as convict ship Plymouth 1839, to Portsmouth 1844, broken up 1861
Vindictive 74 (1813) – cut down to 50-gun frigate 1833, hulked as depot ship Fernando Po 1862, sold 1871
Blenheim 74 (1813) – converted to 60-gun screw blockship 1847, hulked at Portsmouth, broken up 1865
Duncan 74 (1811) – hulked as lazaretto Portsmouth 1826, to Sheerness 1831, broken up 1863
Rippon 74 (1812) – broken up 1821
Medway 74 (1812) – hulked as convict ship Bermuda 1847, sold 1865
Cornwall 74 (1812) – cut down to 50-gun frigate 1830, hulked and lent to London School Ship Society as reformatory 1859, to the Tyne as Wellesley hulk 1868, broken up 1875
Pembroke 74 (1812) – converted to 60-gun screw blockship 1855, hulked as base ship Chatham 1873, renamed Forte 1890 as receiving hulk, then Pembroke again 1891, sold 1905
Indus 74 (1812) – renamed Bellona 1818, hulked as receiving ship Plymouth 1842, broken up 1868
Redoubtable 74 (1815) – broken up 1841
Devonshire 74 (1812) – hulked and lent to Greenwich Seamen's Hospital as temporary hospital ship 1849, to Sheerness as prison ship for Russians 1854, school ship in Queensborough Swale 1860, broken up 1869
Defence 74 (1815) – hulked as convict ship Woolwich 1848, burnt and broken up 1857
Hercules 74 (1815) – troopship 1838, emigrant ship 1852, hulked as army depot ship Hong Kong after 1853, sold 1865
Agincourt 74 (1817) – hulked as training ship at Plymouth after 1848, renamed Vigo 1865, cholera hospital ship 1866, receiving ship at Plymouth 1870, sold 1884, broken up 1885
Pitt 74 (1816) – hulked as coal deport and receiving ship at Plymouth 1853, to Portland 1860, later back to Portsmouth, broken up 1877
Wellington 74 (1816) – ex-Hero, hulked as receiving and depot ship Sheerness 1848, to Coastguard Sheerness 1857, to Liverpool Juvenile Reformatory Association Ltd as training ship and renamed Akbar, sold for breaking 1908
Russell 74 (1822) – converted to 60-gun screw blockship 1854–55, coastguard ship Sheerness 1858, broken up 1865
Akbar 74 (-) – keel laid 4 April 1807, cancelled 12 October 1809. Uncertain whether she was of this class
Augusta 74 (-) – laid down in 1806, cancelled 1809.
Julius 74 (-) – projected in 1807 but deleted 1812.
Orford 74 (-) – projected in 1807 but deleted 1815.
Cornwallis class – teak-built versions of Armada class
Cornwallis 74 (1813) – converted to 60-gun screw blockship 1854–55, hulked as a jetty at Sheerness 1865, renamed Wildfire 1916 as base ship, broken up 1957
Wellesley 74 (1815) – hulked as harbour flagship and receiving ship at Chatham 1862,to Purfleet for the London School Ship Society as a reformatory and renamed Cornwall 1868, sunk by the Luftwaffe 1940 (the only ship-of-the-line ever to be sunk in an air attack)
Carnatic 74 (1823) – hulked as coal deport Portsmouth 1860, floating magazine for the War Office 1886, returned to the Admiralty 1891, sold 1914
Black Prince class Note that, while Wellesley belonged officially to this class, plans meant for her construction were lost in 1812 when aboard the Java which was captured by the Americans; so she was actually built to the lines of the Cornwallis (see above).
Black Prince 74 (1816) – broken up 1855
Melville 74 (1817) – hulked as hospital ship Hong Kong 1857, sold 1873
Hawke 74 (1820) – converted to 60-gun screw blockship 1854–55, broken up 1865
Chatham class – design used captured frames of Franco-Dutch Royal Hollondais
Chatham 74 (1812) – sold 1817
Hastings class – purchased from East India Company in 1819
Hastings 74 (1819) – converted to 60-gun screw blockship 1855, Coastguard 1857, coal hulk 1870, sold 1885
Class uncertain
Augusta(?) 74 (-) – keel laid 1806(?), cancelled 1810(?)
= Third rates of 72 guns (two-deckers)
=Imaun class – gift to the RN from the Imam of Muscat 1836
Imaun 70 (1826) – hulked at Jamaica as receiving ship 1842, broken up 1862/66
= Fourth rates of 50 guns (two-deckers)
=Antelope class (Henslow)
Antelope 50 (1802) – broken up 1845
Diomede class (Henslow) – probably a variant of Antelope
Diomede 50 (1798) – broken up 1815
Grampus 50 (1802) – sold 1832
Jupiter class
Jupiter 50 (1813) – broken up 1870
modified Jupiter class
Salisbury 50 (1814) – sold 1837
Romney 50 (1815) – sold 1845
Isis 50 (1819) – sold 1867
= Converted East Indiamen
=Third Rates
York – built as Royal Admiral; purchased in 1795 and launched in 1796; wrecked in 1804
Ardent – built as Princess Royal; purchased in 1795 and launched in 1796; broken up in 1824
Agincourt – built as Earl Talbot; purchased in 1795 and launched in 1796; decommissioned in 1809; sold and broken up in 1814
Monmouth – built as Belmont; purchased in 1795 and launched in 1796; hulked in 1815; broken up in 1834
Lancaster – built as Pigot; purchased in 1795 and launched in 1797; sold and broken up in 1832
Fourth Rates
Calcutta – launched in 1788 as Warley; purchased in 1795; captured by France 1805
Grampus – launched in 1787 as Ceres; purchased in 1795; grounded in 1799 on the Barking shelf near Woolwich through the ignorance of the pilot and abandoned with no loss of life
Hindostan – launched in 1789 as Hindostan; purchased in 1795; lost in a fire at sea in 1804
Abergavenny – launched as Earl of Abergavenny in 1789; purchased in 1795; sold 1807
Malabar – launched as Royal Charlotte in 1789; purchased in 1795; foundered 1796 on a passage from the West Indies with her crew being taken off by the Martha of Whitby
Glatton – launched as Glatton in 1792; purchased in 1795; scuttled 1830
Coromandel – built as Winterton; purchased and launched in 1795; sold 1813
Madras – built as Lascelles; purchased and launched in 1795; sold 1807
Weymouth – built as Earl Mansfield; purchased and launched in 1795; wrecked, with no loss of life, in 1800 on the Lisbon Bar while going into Lisbon
Malabar – launched in 1798 as Cuvera; purchased in 1804; renamed Coromandel in 1815; broken up in 1853
Hindostan – launched 1798 as Admiral Rainier; purchased in 1804; renamed Dolphin in 1819; renamed Justitia in 1831; sold 1855
= Captures of the Revolutionary War
=French ships
Commerce de Marseille 120 (1788) – ex-French, captured 29 August 1793, prison ship by 1800, sold 1802
Pompée 74 (1791) – ex-French, captured 29 August 1793, broken up 1817
Juste 80 (1784) – ex-French, captured Glorious First of June in 1794, broken up 1811
Ça Ira 80 (1784) – ex-French, captured Glorious First of June in 1794, Burnt by accident 11 April 1896.
Sans Pareil 80 (1793) – ex-French, captured Glorious First of June in 1794, sheer hulk 1810, broken up 1842
Impétueux 74 (1788) – ex-French America, captured Glorious First of June in 1794, broken up 1813
Tigre 74 (1793) – ex-French, captured 23 June 1795, broken up 1817
Belleisle 74 (1788) – ex-French Formidable, captured 23 June 1795, fought at Trafalgar, broken up 1814
Hercule 74 (1797) – ex-French, captured 20 April 1798, deleted 1810
Canopus 80 (1797) – ex-French Franklin, captured 1 August 1798, harbour service 1863, sold 1887
Tonnant 80 (1789) – ex-French captured 1 August 1798, broken up 1821
Spartiate 74 (1794) – ex-French Spartiate, sheer hulk 1842, broken up 1857
Donegal 76 (1794) – ex-French Hoche captured 12 October 1798, broken up 1845
Guerrier 74 (1754) – ex-French Guerrière, captured 2 August 1798, broken up 1810.
Genereux (1785) 74 (1785) – ex-French, captured 18 February 1800, prison ship 1805, broken up 1816
Malta (1795) 80 (1795) – ex-French Guillaume Tell, captured 30 March 1800, harbour service 1831, broken up 1840
Athenienne (1800) 64 (1800) – ex-French Athenien ex-Maltese, captured 30 August 1800, wrecked 1806
Dutch ships
Overyssel 64 – captured 22 October 1795, hulk 1810, sold 1882
Zealand 64 – captured 19 January 1796, harbour service 1803, sold 1830
= Captured at the Capitulation of Saldanha Bay, 17 August 1796 =
Van Tromp 54 – ex-Dutch M.H. Tromp
Dortrecht 62 – ex-Dutch Dordrecht, harbour service 1804, sold 1823
Prince Frederick 64 – ex-Dutch Revolutie and Prins Frederik, hospital ship by 1804, sold 1817
= Captured at the Battle of Camperdown, 11 October 1797 =
Vryheid 70 – prison ship 1798, powder hulk 1802, sold 1811.
Camperdown 70 – ex-Dutch Jupiter, prison ship 1798, powder hulk 1802, sold 1817.
Gelykheid 64/68 – guardship 1803, sheer hulk 1807, disposed of in 1814.
Admiral De Vries 64 – harbour service 1800, sold 1806
Haarlem 64 – harbour service 1811, sold 1816
Wassenaar 66 – ex-Dutch Wassenaar, hulk 1804, sold 1818
Delft 50 – sunk 15 October 1797 (four days after the battle) off the coast at The Hague, while making for Britain as a prize.
Delft 68 – ex-Dutch Hercules, hospital ship by 1804, sold 1817Renamed to honour the crew of the ship Delft 50 above
= Captured at the Vlieter Incident, 30 August 1799 =
Princess of Orange 74 – ex-Dutch Washington, harbour service 1806, sold 1822.
Leyden 64 – floating battery 1805, sold 1815
Texel 64 – ex-Dutch Cerberus, sold 1818
= Captured Dutch fourth-rate two-deckers =
Brakel (c. 1784), captured at the Capitulation of Saldanha Bay in 1796, sold 1814
Tromp (c. 1779), captured at the Capitulation of Saldanha Bay in 1796, sold 1815
Alkmaar (c. 1783), captured at the Battle of Camperdown (1797), sold 1815
Broederschap (c. 1769), captured at the Vlieter Incident (1799), renamed Broaderscarp, broken up 1805
Batavier (c. 1779), captured at the Vlieter Incident (1799), broken up 1823
Beschermer (c. 1784), captured at the Vlieter Incident (1799), sold 1838
Note the six Dutch ships above were 54-gun ships, so the British Navy as classed them as Fourth rate two-deckers, and not as ships of the line.
Spanish ships
San Nicolas 80 (1769) – ex-Spanish, captured Battle of Cape St Vincent (1797), prison ship 1798, sold 1814.
San Josef 110 (1783) – ex-Spanish, captured Battle of Cape St Vincent (1797), training ship by 1837, broken up 1849
San Antonio 74 (1785) – sold to become French Saint Antoine (1801), captured at the Battle of Algeciras Bay in 1801, prison ship 1807, sold 1828
= Captures of the Napoleonic Wars
=French 80-gun ships of Le Tonnant class:
Brave 80 – ex-French Le Formidable, captured 1805, broken up 1816
Alexandre – ex-French Alexandre, captured 1806, sold 1822
French 74-gun ships of Le Téméraire class:
Duquesne 74 (1788) – ex-French Le Duquesne, captured 25 July 1803, stranded 1804, broken up 1805
Implacable 74 (1800) – ex-French Le Duguay-Trouin, captured 4 November 1805, training ship 1805, scuttled 1949
Mont Blanc 74 (1791) – ex-French Mont Blanc, captured 4 November 1805, hulk 1811, sold 1819
Scipion 74 (1801) – ex-French Le Scipion, captured 4 November 1805, broken up 1819
Brave 74 (1795) – ex-French Le Brave, captured 6 February 1806, foundered 1806
Maida 74 (1795) – ex-French Le Jupiter, captured 6 February 1806), sold 1814
Marengo 74 (1795) – ex-French Le Marengo, captured 1806, broken up 1816
Abercrombie 74 (1807) – ex-French D'Hautpoul, captured 7 September 1809, sold 1817
Genoa (ex-French Le Brillant, captured 1814 on stocks) – broken up 1838
French 74-gun ship of Le Pluton class:
Rivoli 74 (1810) – ex-French Le Rivoli, captured 22 February 1812, broken up 1819
Spanish 74-gun ship of San Juan Nepomuceno class:
San Juan 74 – ex-Spanish San Juan Nepomuceno, captured 21 October 1805, hulked 1805
Danish ship captured at the Battle of Copenhagen (1801)
HMS Holstein – renamed Nassau in 1805; sold 1814.
Danish ships captured at the Battle of Copenhagen (1807)
Christian VIII 80 (?) – harbour service 1809, broken up 1838
Dannemark 74 (?) – sold 1815
Norge 74 (?)– sold 1816
Princess Carolina 74 (?) – sold 1815
List of ships-of-the-line of the Royal Navy (1830–47)
Captain Sir William Symonds served as Surveyor of the Navy from 1832 to 1847. Captain Symonds was a naval officer and yacht designer, "who had risen to prominence by his success in competitive sailing trials between small warships. His selection implied a criticism of the dockyard-trained architects of the preceding 200 years". Symonds attempted a revolution in warship design. His ships were designed to be faster under sail, and have more room for the gunners to work the guns (improving ergonomics). To achieve this, his ships were larger, and used a different hull form to provide stability without needing large amounts of ballast. Unfortunately the Surveyor's department was understaffed for the amount of work they were undertaking, and mistakes were made. Symonds' designs had more stability than was desirable, with the result that they rolled excessively and therefore were poor gun platforms. Another problem with Symonds' ships was that they were very sensitive to the distribution of weights on board ship, such as the stores carried and consumed on a voyage.
Symonds worked very closely with John Edye, an experienced and well-educated shipwright officer. Edye was responsible for the details of structure and construction. The ships that Symonds and Edye designed had far more iron in their structure than the previous generation of ships designed by Seppings.
= First rates of 120 guns (three-deckers)
=Royal Albert class (Lang) 3-decker, 120 guns
Royal Albert 120 (1854) – laid down 1844, converted to screw 1852–54
Duke of Wellington class (Surveyors Department) improved Queen, 3-deckers, 120 guns
Windsor Castle 120 (1852) – laid down 1849, converted to screw 131-guns 1852, renamed Duke of Wellington
Marlborough 120 (1855) – laid down 1850, converted to screw 131-guns 1853–55
Royal Sovereign 120 (1857) – laid down 1849, converted to screw 1855–57
Prince of Wales 120 (1860) – laid down 1848, converted to screw 1856–60
= First rates of 110 guns (three-deckers)
=Queen class (Symonds & Edye) 3-decker 110 guns
Queen 116 (1839) – ex-Royal Frederick, laid down 1833, converted to screw 2-decker 1858–59
Victoria 116 (1858) – laid down 1844, renamed Windsor Castle 1855, converted to screw 1857–58
Frederick William 116 (1860) – ex-Royal Frederick, laid down 1841, converted to screw 2-decker 1859–60
Algiers – ordered 1833, but not begun, cancelled 11 December 1834.
Royal Sovereign – ordered 1832, probably not begun, cancelled 1838.
= Second rates of 90 guns (two-deckers)
=Albion class (Symonds & Edye)
Albion 90 (1842) – laid down 1839. A design error led to the main deck in Albion being unusually low. converted to screw 1860-1
Aboukir 91 (1848) – laid down 1840, converted to screw 1856–58
Exmouth 91 (1854) – laid down 1841, converted to screw 1853–54
Saint Jean D'Acre – ordered 1844 but not begun, cancelled 1845
Hannibal – ordered 1839, probably not begun, cancelled 1846
Princess Royal class (Edye) modified Albion class
Princess Royal 91 (1853) – laid down 1841, converted to screw 1853
Hannibal 91 (1854) – laid down 1848, converted to screw 1854
Algiers class (Edye or Committee of Reference) modified Albion class
Algiers 91 (1854) – laid down 1848, converted to screw 1852–54
Caesar class (Committee of Reference) modified Rodney class
Caesar 91 (1853) – laid down 1848, converted to screw 1852–53
= Second rates of 80 guns (two-deckers)
=Vanguard class (Symonds & Edye)
Vanguard 78 (1835) – laid down 1833, broken up 1875
Goliath 80 (1842) – laid down 1834, converted to screw 1856–57
Superb 80 (1842) – laid down 1838, lent as accommodation ship for Turkish naval crews of ships building on the Thames 1864, by 1866 returned to ordinary reserve, broken up 1869
Meeanee 60 (1848) – ex-Madras, laid down 1841, converted to screw 1852–53
Collingwood 80 (1841) – laid down 1835, converted to screw 1860–61
Centurion 80 (1844) – laid down 1839, converted to screw 1854–55
Mars 80 (1848) – laid down 18395, converted to screw 1855–56
Lion 80 (1847) – laid down 1840, converted to screw 1858–59
Majestic 80 (1853) – laid down 1841, converted to screw 1852–53
Colossus 80 (1848) – laid down 1843, converted to screw 1854–55
Irresistible 80 (1859) – laid down 1849, converted to screw 1855–59
Modified Vanguard class (Admiralty alteration of Symonds & Edye design)
Brunswick 80 (1855) – laid down 1847, converted to screw 1854–55
Orion class (Edye & Watts)
Orion 80 (1854) – laid down 1850, converted to screw 91-guns 1852–54
Hood 80 (1859) – laid down 1849, converted to screw 91-guns 1856–59
Edgar 80 (-) never laid down
Sans Pareil class – lines of ex-French Sans Pareil captured in 1795, though structurally different
Sans Pareil 80 (1851) – laid down 1845, converted to screw 70-guns 1849–51
= Third rates of 70 guns (two-deckers)
=Boscawen class (Symonds & Edye)
Boscawen 70 (1844) – built from frames originally made for another ship, drill ship at Southampton 1862, to the Tyne as a hulk 1874 and renamed Wellesley, burnt and broken up 1914
Cumberland 70 (1842) – laid down 1836, sheer hulk at Sheerness 1863, training ship in the Clyde for the Clyde Industrial Training Ship Association 1869, destroyed by fire 1889
List of unarmoured steam ships-of-the-line of the Royal Navy (1847–61)
Ships have been listed by class as in Lambert.
= Ships converted to steam ships-of-the-line
=Duke of Wellington class 3-deckers, 131 guns
Duke of Wellington 131 (1852) – ex-Windsor Castle, laid down 1849, converted to screw 1852, receiving ship Portsmouth 1863, sold 1902 for broken up
Marlborough 131 (1855) – laid down 1850, converted to screw 1853–55, receiving ship Portsmouth 1878, renamed Vernon II 1904, sold 1924, capsized off Brighton while on tow to the breakers Oct 1924
Royal Sovereign 121 (1857) – laid down 1849, converted to screw 1855–57, converted to turret ship 1864, sold for breaking 1885
Prince of Wales 121 (1860) – laid down 1848, converted to screw 1856–60, renamed Britannia to replace original ship of that name as training ship for boys in the river Dart 1869, hulked 1909, sold for breaking 1914
Royal Albert class (Lang) 3-decker, 121 guns
Royal Albert 121 (1854) – laid down 1844, converted to screw 1852–54, sold 1883 for broken up
Windsor Castle class 3-decker, 102 guns, laid down as Queen class 116 guns
Windsor Castle 102 (1858) – ex-Victoria, laid down 1844, converted to screw 1857–58, no sea-service, renamed Cambridge and hulked as gunnery training ship Devonport 1869, sold 1908
Orion class 2-deckers, 91 guns, laid down as 80 gun ships
Orion 91 (1854) – broken up 1867
Hood 91 (1859) – sold 1888/1904
Edgar 80 (-) – never laid down
Caesar class 2-decker, 91 guns
Caesar 91 (1853) – sold 1870
Algiers class 2-decker, 91 guns, improved Albion class
Algiers 91 (1854) – sold 1870
Princess Royal class 2-deckers, 91 guns, laid down as Albion class
Princess Royal 91 (1853) – sold 1872
Hannibal 91 (1854) – sold 1904
Rodney class 2-deckers, 91 guns
Rodney 91 (1833) – converted to screw 1860, broken up 1882
Nile 91 (1839) – converted to screw 1854, burnt 1956
London 91 (1840) – converted to screw 1858, sold 1884
Nelson class 2-decker, 91 guns, originally Nelson class 3-decker 120 guns
Nelson 91 (1814) – laid down as 120-gunner. Converted to steam and cut down to 2-decker 1859–60. Fitted as schoolship for New South Wales 1867. Sold 1898. Broken up 1928. No service as sail or steam line-of-battle ship
Royal George class 2-deckers, 89 guns, originally Caledonia class 3-decker 120 guns
Prince Regent 89 (1823) – cut down to 92-gun 2-decker 1841–47, converted to screw 1860–61, broken up 1873
Royal George 89 (1827) – converted to steam 120-gun 3-decker 1852–53, poop and forecastle removed December 1854, making her 102-gun 3-decker, cut down to 89-gun 2-decker 1860, sold 1875
Saint George class 2-deckers, 89 guns, originally broadened Caledonia class 3-decker 120 guns
St George 89 (1840) – sold 1883
Royal William 89 (1833) – burnt 1899
Neptune 89 (1827) – sold 1875
Waterloo 120 (1833) – converted 1859, renamed Conqueror 1862, renamed Warspite 1877 and served as a training ship at Greenhithe/Woolwich. Burnt 1918.
Trafalgar 91 (1841) – sold 1906
Albion class 2-deckers, 91 guns, originally Albion class 2-deckers 90 guns
Albion 91 (1842) – conversion to screw begun 1861, never completed; broken up 1884
Aboukir 91 (1848) – sold 1878
Exmouth 91 (1854) – sold 1905
Queen class 2-deckers, 86 guns, originally Queen class 3-decker 120 guns
Queen 86 (1839) – converted to screw 2-decker 1858–59, broken up 1871
Frederick William 86 (1860) – converted to screw 2-decker 1859–60, renamed Worcester 1876 and became training ship at Greenhithe for the Thames Marine Officers Training Society, sold 1948, foundered 1948, raised and broken up 1953
Cressy class 2-decker, 80 guns
Cressy 80 (1853) – sold 1867
Majestic class 2-deckers, 80 guns, originally Vanguard class 2-deckers 80 guns
Goliath 80 (1842) – converted to screw 1857, burnt 1875
Collingwood 80 (1841) – converted to screw 1861, sold 1867
Centurion 80 (1844) – converted to screw 1855/56, sold 1870
Mars 80 (1848) – converted to screw 1855, sold 1929
Lion 80 (1847) – converted to screw 1859, sold 1905
Majestic 80 (1853) – broken up 1868
Meeanee 80 (1848) – laid down as Madras 80. Converted to screw 1857, broken up 1906
Colossus 80 (1848) – converted to screw 1854, sold 1867
Brunswick 80 (1855) – sold 1867
Irresistible 80 (1859) – sold 1894
Bombay class 2-decker, 80 guns, ex-Canopus class
Bombay 84 (1828) – converted to screw 1861, burnt 1864
Sans Pareil class 2-decker, 80 guns
Sans Pareil 80 (1851) – completed as 70-gun screw warship, sold 1867
Blenheim class 2-deckers, 60 guns blockships, ex-74s
Ajax 60 (1809) – ex-74, converted to 60-gun screw blockship, 1847, broken up 1864
Blenheim 60 (1813) – ex-74, converted to 60-gun screw blockship 1847, hulked at Portsmouth, broken up 1865
Edinburgh 60 (1811) – ex-74, converted to 60-gun screw blockship 1852, sold 1866
Hogue 60 (1811) – ex-74, converted to 60-gun screw blockship 1848, broken up 1865
Cornwallis class 2-deckers, 60 guns blockships, ex-74s
Cornwallis 60 (1813) – ex-74, converted to 60-gun screw blockship 1854–55, hulked as a jetty at Sheerness 1865, renamed Wildfire 1916 as base ship, broken up 1957
Hastings 60 (1819) – ex-74, purchased from East India Company in 1819, converted to 60-gun screw blockship 1855, Coastguard 1857, coal hulk 1870, sold 1885
Hawke 60 (1820) – ex-74, converted to 60-gun screw blockship 1854–55, broken up 1865
Pembroke 60 (1812) – ex-74, converted to 60-gun screw blockship 1855, hulked as base ship Chatham 1873, renamed Forte 1890 as receiving hulk, then Pembroke again 1891, sold 1905
Russell 60 (1822) – ex-74, converted to 60-gun screw blockship 1854–55, coastguard ship Sheerness 1858, broken up 1865
= Wooden-hulled ships built (or at least laid down) as steam ships-of-the-line
=Victoria class, 3-deckers, 121 guns
Victoria 121 (1859) – sold 1892
Howe 110 (1860) – renamed Impregnable. sold 1921
Saint Jean D'Acre class 2-decker, 101 guns
St Jean d'Acre 101 (1853) – sold 1875
Conqueror class 2-deckers, 101 guns
Conqueror 101 (1855) – wrecked 1861
Donegal 101 (1858) – renamed Vernon 1886, sold 1925
Duncan class 2-deckers, 101 guns
Duncan 101 (1859) – sold 1910
Gibraltar 101 (1860) – renamed Grampian 1888, sold 1899
Agamemnon class 2-decker, 91 guns
Agamemnon 91 (1852) – sold 1870
James Watt class 2-deckers, 91 guns
James Watt 91 (1853) – sold 1875
Victor Emanuel 91 (1855) – ex-Repulse. sold 1899
Edgar 91 (1858) - sold 1904
Hero 91 (1858) – sold 1871
Renown class 2-deckers, 91 guns
Revenge 91 (1859) – broken up 1923
Renown 91 (1857) – sold 1870
Atlas 91 (1860) – broken up 1904
Anson 91 (1860) – broken up 1904
Defiance class 2-decker, 91 guns
Defiance 91 (1861) – sold 1931
Bulwark class 2-deckers, 91 guns
Bulwark 91 (-) – suspended almost complete 1861, broken up 1873
Robust 91 (-) – laid down as Duncan class, suspended almost complete 1861, broken up 1872
Repulse – ordered to be converted to ironclad 1866
Zealous – ordered to be converted to ironclad 1864
Royal Alfred – ordered to be converted to ironclad 1861
Royal Oak – ordered to be converted to Prince Consort-class ironclad as half-sister of Prince Consort class 1861
Triumph – ordered to be converted to Prince Consort-class ironclad 1861 and completed as Prince Consort
Caledonia – ordered to be converted to Prince Consort-class ironclad 1861
Ocean – ordered to be converted to Prince Consort-class ironclad 1861
Blake – ordered but never laid down. Cancelled 1863.
Kent – ordered but never laid down. Cancelled 1863.
Pitt – ordered but never laid down. Cancelled 1863.
List of ironclad warships of the Royal Navy (1860–82)
= Sea-going ironclads (1860–82)
=Warrior-class broadside ironclads
Warrior (1860) – preserved Portsmouth
Black Prince (1861) – renamed Emerald 1903, renamed Impregnable III 1910, sold for breaking 1923
Defence-class broadside ironclads
Defence (1861)
Resistance (1861)
Hector-class broadside ironclads
Hector (1862)
Valiant (1863)
Achilles (1863) broadside ironclad
Minotaur-class broadside ironclads
Minotaur (1863)
Agincourt (1865)
Northumberland (1866)
Prince Consort-class broadside ironclads (converted from Bulwark-class 2-deckers)
Prince Consort (1862) (ex-Triumph)
Caledonia (1862)
Ocean (1862)
Royal Oak (1862) – broadside ironclad (converted from Bulwark-class 2-decker)
Royal Alfred (1864) – central-battery ironclad (converted from Bulwark-class 2-decker)
Research (1863) – central-battery ironclad
Enterprise (1864) – central-battery ironclad
Favorite (1864) – central-battery ironclad
Zealous (1864) – central-battery ironclad (converted from Bulwark-class 2-decker)
Repulse (1868) – central-battery ironclad (converted from Bulwark-class 2-decker)
Lord Clyde-class broadside ironclads
Lord Clyde (1864)
Lord Warden (1865)
Pallas (1865) – central-battery ironclad
Bellerophon (1865) – central-battery ironclad
Penelope (1867) – central-battery ironclad
Hercules (1868) – central-battery ironclad – sold for breaking 1932
Monarch (1868) – masted turret-ship
Captain class – masted turret-ship
Captain (1869) – sank 1870
Audacious-class central-battery ironclads
Audacious (1869)
Invincible (1869)
Iron Duke (1870)
Vanguard (1870)
Swiftsure-class central-battery ironclads
Swiftsure (1870) – sold for breaking 1908
Triumph (1870) – sold for breaking 1921
Sultan (1870) – central-battery ironclad
Devastation class – mastless turret-ship
Devastation (1871) – sold for break up 1908
Thunderer (1872) – mastless turret-ship, sold for breaking 1909
Alexandra (1875) – central-battery ironclad, sold for breaking 1908
Temeraire (1876) – central-battery ironclad with barbettes
Superb class (intended for Ottoman Empire) – central-battery ironclads
Superb (1875) – launched as Hamidieh, renamed
(Ottoman Messudieh)
Neptune (1874) (ex-Independencia) – masted turret-ship, sold for breaking 1903
Dreadnought (1875) – mastless turret-ship, sold for breaking 1908
Inflexible (1876) – central citadel turret-ship, sold for breaking 1903
Ajax-class central citadel turret-ships
Agamemnon (1879) – broken up 1903
Ajax (1880) – sold for breaking 1904
= Coastal service ironclads
=Royal Sovereign (1862) – turret-ship, converted from Duke of Wellington-class 3-decker
Prince Albert (1864) – turret-ship
Scorpion-class masted turret-ships
Scorpion (1863)
Wivern (1863)
Cerberus-class turret-ships
Cerberus (1868) (Victoria)
Magdala (1870) (India)
Abyssinia (1870) (India) – turret-ship
Glatton (1871) – turret-ship
Hotspur (1870) – turret-ship
Rupert (1872) – turret-ship, sold for breaking 1907
Belleisle-class (intended for Ottoman Empire) central battery ships
Belleisle (1876) – launched as Peki-Shereef, renamed
Orion (1879) – planned name Boordhi-Zaffer
Conqueror-class turret-ships
Conqueror (1881) – sold for breaking 1907
Hero (1885)
See also
Bibliography of 18th-19th century Royal Naval history
Notes
References
Chesneau, Roger and Kolesnik, Eugene (Ed.) Conway's All the World's Fighting Ships 1860–1905. Conway Maritime Press, 1979. ISBN 0-8317-0302-4
Gossett, William Patrick (1986). The lost ships of the Royal Navy, 1793–1900. Mansell. ISBN 0-7201-1816-6.
Lambert, Andrew Battleships in Transition, the Creation of the Steam Battlefleet 1815–1860, published Conway Maritime Press, 1984. ISBN 0-85177-315-X
Lambert, Andrew The Last Sailing Battlefleet, Maintaining Naval Mastery 1815–1850, published Conway Maritime Press, 1991. ISBN 0-85177-591-8
Lavery, Brian, The Ship of the Line Volume I, pub Conway Maritime Press, 1983, ISBN 0-85177-252-8
(Also: *Lavery, Brian (1984). The Ship of the Line, Vol. 1: The Development of the Battlefleet 1650-1850. Vol. I (1st ed.). Annapolis: Naval Institute Press. p. 224. ISBN 0-85177-252-8.)
Lyon, David, The Sailing Navy List, All the Ships of the Royal Navy – Built, Purchased and Captured 1688–1860, pub Conway Maritime Press, 1993, ISBN 0-85177-617-5
Lyon, David and Winfield, Rif, The Sail and Steam Navy List, All the Ships of the Royal Navy 1815–1889, pub Chatham, 2004, ISBN 1-86176-032-9
Parkes, Oscar British Battleships, first published Seeley Service & Co, 1957, published United States Naval Institute Press, 1990. ISBN 1-55750-075-4
Winfield, Rif, British Warships in the Age of Sail: 1603–1714 – Design, Construction, Careers and Fates, pub Seaforth Publishing, Barnsley (2009) ISBN 978-1-84832-040-6.
Winfield, Rif, British Warships of the Age of Sail: 1714–1792 – Design, Construction, Careers and Fates, pub Seaforth Publishing, Barnsley (2007) ISBN 978-1-84415-700-6.
Winfield, Rif, British Warships in the Age of Sail: 1793–1817 – Design, Construction, Careers and Fates, pub Chatham Publishing, London (2005) ISBN 978-1-84415-717-4; (2nd edition) Seaforth Publishing, Barnsley (2008) ISBN 978-1-84415-717-4.
For subsequent capital ships of the Royal Navy, please see List of pre-dreadnought battleships of the Royal Navy and List of dreadnought battleships of the Royal Navy.
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