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...
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"Third Rate Romance" is a song written by Russell Smith, first recorded in Montreal in 1974 by Jesse Winchester and his band the Rhythm Aces, assisted...
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Rating system of the Royal Navy (redirect from Rate of a ship)
100–120. A sixth rate's range went from 4–18 to 20–28 (after 1714 any ship with fewer than 20 guns was unrated). A first-, second- or third-rate ship was regarded...
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Fight for My Way (redirect from Third-Rate My Way)
Retrieved 2017-05-04. 표예진, '쌈, 마이웨이' 캐스팅…통통 튀는 활력소 (Pyo Ye-jin cast in Third-Rate My Way). Maeil Business Newspaper (in Korean). 채동현, KBS '쌈, 마이웨이' 캐스팅...
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first-rate ships carrying at least 100 guns, second-rate ships carrying 84 to 98 guns, and larger third-rate ships carrying 70 to 80 guns. Smaller third-rate...
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period—specifically the first-rate Prince Royal (in 1663), the second-rate Victory (in 1666), the third-rate Montague (in 1675) and the fourth-rates Bonaventure (in...
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fourth-rate frigates threw a close-range broadside (including from their heavy carronades) far superior to the earlier two-decker 50s or even to third-rate 64s...
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R&B, folk, reggae, and Latino. The band is best known for its 1975 hit "Third Rate Romance". They have released 18 albums over 30 years (a period including...
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was launched in 1596 and sold in 1649. HMS Warspite (1666) was a 70-gun third-rate ship of the line launched in 1666. She was renamed HMS Edinburgh in 1721...
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Trailer", "I Can't Reach Her Anymore", "National Working Woman's Holiday", "Third Rate Romance", "Meant to Be", "Vidalia", and "Love of My Life". Kershaw tried...
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Navy: HMS Somerset (1698), a third rate of 1698 HMS Somerset (1731), a third rate of 1731 HMS Somerset (1748), a third rate of 1748 HMS Somerset (F82),...
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1759 at Chatham, was a third-rate ship of the line of 74 guns. HMS Valiant (1807), launched in 1807, was a Repulse-class third-rate. HMS Valiant was ordered...
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in 1728. She was broken up in 1769. HMS Vanguard (1748) was a 70-gun third rate launched in 1748 and sold in 1774. HMS Vanguard (1780) was a 4-gun gunvessel...
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1745 Establishment (section Third rates of 80 guns)
ships had remained relatively unchanged: the gundeck length of a 70-gun third rate of 1706 was 150 ft (45.7 m), compared with 151 ft (46.0 m) in 1733. By...
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was carried on the books of the sixth-rate HMS Seaford and the third-rate HMS Carnatic. Hardy joined the fifth-rate HMS Hebe on 5 February 1790 as a midshipman;...
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sixth-rate HMS James Galley in April 1681, to the third-rate HMS Anne in April 1687 and to the fourth-rate HMS Dover in April 1688. Throughout this period...
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strip of the Kentish coast. He went on to be commanding officer of the third-rate HMS Canopus, in which he took part in the pursuit of the French Fleet...
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literacy rate. The global literacy rate for all people aged 15 and above is 86.3%. The global literacy rate for all males is 90.0%, and the rate for all...
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Battle of Trafalgar (category Battles of the War of the Third Coalition)
first-rate carried 100 guns. The fleet had six 80 gun third-rates, (four French and two Spanish), and one Spanish 64 gun third-rate. The remaining 22 third-rates...
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6 ships, 1717-1738 The distinction between secondo and terzo rango ('third-rate') Venetian ships of the line was based more on roles that on main armament...
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HMS Resolution (1667), a 70-gun third-rate ship of the line launched 1667; rebuilt 1698; foundered in 1703. HMS Resolution (1705), a 70-gun third rate launched 1705; run...
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the American Revolutionary War, he saw action again, as captain of the third-rate HMS Defence, at the battle of the Glorious First of June in 1794, during...
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76-gun second rate launched in 1664 and burnt by the Dutch in 1667 in the Raid on the Medway. HMS Royal Oak (1674) was a 70-gun third rate launched in 1674...
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drowned. The third-rate HMS Restoration was wrecked on the Goodwin Sands; of the ship's company of 387 not one was saved. The third-rate HMS Northumberland...
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the legendary Greek king Agamemnon. HMS Agamemnon (1781) was a 64-gun third-rate launched in 1781. She took part in the Battle of Trafalgar in 1805 and...
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80-gun third rate launched in 1692 and blown up in action with the French in 1707 at the Battle at the Lizard. HMS Devonshire (1710) was an 80-gun third rate...
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Standard 64-gun third-rate (Captain Thomas Harvey) HMS Thunderer 74-gun third-rate (Captain John Talbot) HMS Pompee 74-gun third-rate (Flag Captain Richard...
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and 1614, then broken up in 1648. HMS Dreadnought (1654) was a 52-gun third-rate ship of the line launched in 1654 as the Torrington for the Commonwealth...
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the third-rate HMS Suffolk, flagship of Admiral Sir Charles Knowles, Commander-in-Chief in the West Indies, in March 1743 and then to the fifth-rate HMS Eltham...
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Exeter after the city of Exeter in Devon. HMS Exeter (1680) was a 70-gun third rate launched in 1680. She was damaged in an explosion in 1691 and was hulked...
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