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Re: Whish class of ship is the largest?
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lugnet.pirates
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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?
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> 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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| 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 (...) (25 years ago, 8-Mar-00, to lugnet.pirates)
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