The "seventy-four" was a type of two-decked sailing ship of the line, which nominally carried 74 guns. It was developed by the French navy in the 1740s...
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2074 The 74, an American nonprofit news website Seventy-four (ship), a type of two-decked sailing ship 74 Galatea, a main-belt asteroid List of highways...
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many of the sailing "Seventy-four ships". Doughty worked for many years as a United States naval architect laying down such ships "as the USS Delaware...
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ship Natividad in battle. As a reward for his exploits, he is given command of a seventy-four ship of the line, HMS Sutherland, once the Dutch ship Eendracht...
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Third-rate (redirect from Sixty-four (ship))
seventy-four gun ship, which eventually came to be the most popular size of large ship for navies of several different nations. It was an easier ship...
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Rivoli was a Téméraire-class ship of the line of the French Navy. Rivoli was built in the Arsenal of Venice, whose harbour was too shallow for a 74-gun...
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Two-decker (category Naval sailing ship types)
Fifth rate up to 80- or even 90-gun ships of the line, with the third-rate of seventy-four guns, or "seventy-four", being the archetype. Three-decker...
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suppress piracy. During their deployment seventy six of the Macedonian officers and men died. Seventy four of these deaths were attributed to yellow...
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The Commodore (novel) (section Ships)
Commodore Aubrey is given a squadron to conduct a mission against slave ships in West Africa and then he and Maturin are sent against Napoleon's Navy...
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known as a ship of the line, featuring seventy-four guns. This type of ship became the backbone of all European fighting fleets. These ships were 56 metres...
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vessel was constructed shorter in length than a traditional Spanish seventy-four would be. Although completed with 74 guns, she was later re-armed in...
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A junk (Chinese: 船; pinyin: chuán) is a type of Chinese sailing ship characterized by a central rudder, an overhanging flat transom, watertight bulkheads...
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Rating system of the Royal Navy (redirect from Great ship)
"first rate" when referring to the largest ships of other nations or "third rate" to speak of a French seventy-four. By the end of the 18th century, the rating...
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USS Columbus (1819) (category Wikipedia articles incorporating text from the Dictionary of American Naval Fighting Ships)
not less than seventy-four guns each". Enslaved laborer and diarist, Michael Shiner, documented the launching thus, "The United States Ship Columbus 74...
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The Yellow Admiral (section Ships)
published in 1996. The story is set in the era of the Napoleonic Wars. The ships of his squadron are dispersed by the Admiralty as Aubrey's two missions...
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any late additions of a second gundeck. The king ordered seventy-two 24-pound guns for the ship on 5 August 1626, and this was too many to fit on a single...
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Ship breaking (also known as ship recycling, ship demolition, ship scrapping, ship dismantling, or ship cracking) is a type of ship disposal involving...
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HMS Mars (1794) (category Ships of the line of the Royal Navy)
the Battle of the Raz de Sein she fought a famous single-ship duel with the French seventy-four Hercule, in the dusk near the Pointe du Raz on the coast...
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SS Oceanic (1870) (category Ships built in Belfast)
chartered to Occidental and Oriental Steamship Company (O&O) in 1875. The ship provided passenger service for O&O in the Pacific until 1895 when she was...
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pattern but deals with a fast and seaworthy ship traveling the Clipper route and taking "never more than seventy days" "[f]rom Limehouse Docks to Sydney Heads"[1]...
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Arleigh Burke-class destroyer (category Naval ships of the United States)
October 2023,[update] all seventy-three built are active, with nineteen more planned to enter service. The Arleigh Burke-class destroyer has four variants, referred...
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Adrift: Seventy-six Days Lost At Sea is a 1986 memoir by Steven Callahan about his survival alone in a life raft in the Atlantic Ocean, which lasted 76...
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cause to be built nine ships, to rate not less than seventy-four guns each, and twelve ships, to rate not less than forty-four guns each… the president...
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Cruise ships originally bound for Baltimore docked in other cities. For example, Carnival Legend docked in Norfolk, Virginia, on March 31 and seventy buses...
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of the forward part of the ship. Arizona sank into the shallow water of the harbor, taking one thousand one hundred seventy-seven of her crew with her...
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the UK Top 100 Albums Charts. In the United States, it debuted at number seventy-eight on the US Billboard 200 charts, spending a total of three weeks within...
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Clemson-class destroyer (category World War II auxiliary ships of the United States)
World War II. Four Wickes-class DM conversions and the four Clemson-class DM conversions survived to serve in World War II. Most ships remaining in service...
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Capture of the Grand Mughal Fleet (section Other ships)
On 7 September 1695, English pirate Henry Every captured the 25-ship convoy of Grand Mughal vessels making the annual pilgrimage to Mecca, including the...
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Sea Cloud (category Ships built in Kiel)
brought the ship into the marriage. After evaluating the cost of running a year-round crew of seventy-two, Post decided to sell the ship. In the beginning...
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to have fifty-six 20 mm, while Washington was assigned seventy-five. In August 1945, the ships both had eight twin 20 mm mounts; North Carolina also carried...
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