-
itself a
contraction of the
phrase "
ship of the
line of battle" or, more colloquially, "battleship
of the
line". The term "
ship of the
line" fell into disuse...
- The
line of battle or the
battle line is a
tactic in
naval warfare in
which a
fleet of ships forms a
line end to end. The
first example of its use as a...
- This is a list
of ships of the
line of the
Royal Navy
of England, and
later (from 1707)
of Great Britain, and the
United Kingdom. The list
starts from...
- his
capture of two
Spanish ships of the
line at the
Battle of Cape St.
Vincent in
February 1797. In July 1797, he lost an arm at the
Battle of Santa Cruz...
- Duke
of Kent was a
proposed 170-gun
line of battle ship allegedly designed by ****ure
Surveyor of the Navy
Joseph Tucker in 1809. Such a vessel, if built...
-
galleon and then the
ship of the
line. The
evolution of the term has been
given thus: man-
of-war. "A
phrase applied to a
line of battle ship,
contrary to the...
- The
Bulwark class were the
final class of wooden line-
of-
battle ships laid down for the
Royal Navy. They were laid down
after HMS Warrior. In
March 1861...
- the
southwest coast of Spain, off Cape Trafalgar.
Nelson was outnumbered, with 27 British
ships of the
line to 33 Franco-Spanish
ships,
including the largest...
-
armament of
French and
American line-
of-
battle ships in 1841. In the
Crimean War, six
line-
of-
battle ships and two
frigates of the
Russian Black Sea Fleet...
- was a 120 gun
ship of the
line,
built in 1815 and
broken up in 1854. HMS Howe (1860),
launched 1860, was a 121-gun
steam line-
of-
battle ship,
renamed Bulwark...
