page_title: Two-decker
hierarchical_section_title: Two-decker
caption_attribution_description: English: Watercolor by an unidentified artist, depicting the ship at Malta. This ship of the line was later renamed Alfred.
context_page_description: A two-decker is a sail warship which carried her guns on two fully armed decks. Usually additional guns were carried on the upper works, but this was not a continuous battery and thus not counted as a full gun deck.
  Two-deckers ranged all the way from the small 40-gun 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.
context_section_description: A two-decker is a sail warship which carried her guns on two fully armed decks. Usually additional guns were carried on the upper works (forecastle and quarterdeck), but this was not a continuous battery and thus not counted as a full gun deck.
  Two-deckers ranged all the way from the small 40-gun 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.
caption: HMS Asia, British 74-gun warship, 1811
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