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Re: Whish class of ship is the largest?
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Wed, 8 Mar 2000 16:17:07 GMT
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In lugnet.pirates, Jonathan Wilson writes:
Which class of ship is the largest? A man of war? Was there anything
larger?

--
Jonathan Wilson
wilsonj@xoommail.com
http://members.xoom.com/wilsonj/

1st class ship-of-the-line, 100 guns plus.  Ships-of-the-line were rated 1st
through 4th class.  Frigates were 5th and 6th (The American super-frigates
could be argued to be 4th class, I imagine).  Everything else was unrated (by
the British system, at least).  I'm not sure when this rating system began - so
earlier periods (more appropriate to Piracy anyway, 1550-1700) may have used
different nomenclature.

Bruce



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  Re: Whish class of ship is the largest?
 
Hi, I looked at the subject line and thought someone'd had a bit too much of the grog...*hIc!* (...) There were some real monsters among those first-rates, however. I remember, in particular, the French ship L'Orient, which was *rated* at 120 (...) (24 years ago, 8-Mar-00, to lugnet.pirates)

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Which class of ship is the largest? A man of war? Was there anything larger? -- Jonathan Wilson wilsonj@xoommail.com (URL) (24 years ago, 8-Mar-00, to lugnet.pirates)

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