![]() ![]() They were armed with a minimum of 100 heavy cannon, carried a crew of about 850 and were over 2000 tons Builder’s Measure (a formula for calculating the capacity of the ship, not the displacement of the ship as is the practice today). They were generally used as flagships and fought in the centre of the line-of-battle. First Rateįirst Rate ships were the biggest of the fleet with their gun batteries carried on three decks. Captains commanded rated ships, which were always ship rigged – meaning they had three square-rigged masts. There were six rates of warship.Ī ship’s rate was basically decided by the number of guns she carried, from the largest 120-gun First Rate, down to the Sixth Rate 20-gun ships. The rating system of the British Royal Navy was used to categorise warships between the 17th and 19th centuries. Rated Navy ships in the 17th to 19th centuries ![]()
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