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In the rating system of the Royal Navy, a third-rate was a ship of the line which from the 1720s mounted between 64 and 80 guns, typically built with two gun decks.
The third-rate HMS Buckingham on the stocks before its launch in 1751
Painting of the third-rate HMS Melville
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The rating system of the Royal Navy and its predecessors were used by the Royal Navy between the beginning of the 17th century and the middle of the 19th century to categorise sailing warships, initia
Third-rate
…In the rating system of the Royal Navy, a third-rate was a ship of the line which from the 1720s mounted between 64 and 80 guns, typically built with two gun decks (thus the related term…
A 1728 diagram illustrating a first- and a third-rate ship