First rate
Subtitle: the greatest warships of the Age of Sail
By: Rif Winfield
Publisher: Naval Institute Press
Published: 2010
Place of publication: Annapolis, Maryland
Language: eng
Number of pages: 168
ISBN-13: 9781591142645
Subjects: Great Britain. Royal Navy; Great Britain; Ships of the line; Warships; Pictorial works; History
Notes: Includes index.
Table of contents: title: The Jacobean and Commonwealth first rate; title: The Pepysian Age; title: First rates in the Anglo-Dutch Wars; title: The Navy board model; title: The first rate under the later Stuarts; title: The Royal William of 1719; title: The Era of the Establishments; title: Anson's new Navy; title: The changing shape of the bow; title: The French Revolutionary War and the expansion of the first rate; title: The changing shape of the stern; title: The Caledonia's descendants, 1812-1840; title: The transition to steam; title: Arrangements; title: Fittings; title: Structure; title: First rate prizes.