-
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...
- The
ships that parti****ted in the
Battle of Lowestoft, a
naval engagement between the
English and
Dutch off the
English port
of Lowestoft on 13 June (New...
-
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
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...
- 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...
- 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...
- to form a
coherent line of
battle in response, and
ship after ship was
mauled by the
combined firepower of the
English line. Vice-Admiral
Rudolf Coenders...
-
first battle of Algeciras,
capturing a
line-
of-
battle ship. In the
second battle of Algeciras, four days later, the
British captured a
French ship and sank...
