HMS Magnificent (1766)
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HMS Magnificent was a 74-gun third-rate ship of the line of the Royal Navy, built by Adam Hayes launched on 20 September 1766 at Deptford Dockyard. She was one of the Ramillies-class built to update t
Loss of the Magnificent by John Christian Schetky
The capture of the 32-gun French frigate Amiable and the corvette Ceres after their encounter with Sir Samuel Hood in the Barfleur, with the Valiant and the Magnificent, in the Mona Passage, 19 April 1782
Ship of the line
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A ship of the line was a type of naval warship constructed during the Age of Sail from the 17th century to the mid-19th century. The ship of the line was designed for the naval tactic known as the lin
Saint-Esprit, a ship of the line of the French Navy; depicted in the Battle of Saint Kitts, 1782
The carrack Henri Grace à Dieu, from the Anthony Roll
Sovereign of the Seas, a contemporaneous engraving by J. Payne
The Cannon Shot, 1707, by Willem van de Velde the Younger depicts an early 18th-century Dutch man-of-war.