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Ships of the Line - WarShips

Warship History

In naval warfare, Battleships were the most heavily armed and armored warships afloat. They were designed to engage enemy warships with direct or indirect fire from an arsenal of main guns. As a secondary role, they were capable of bombarding targets on and near an enemy coast to support infantry assaults.

After the development of the line of battle tactic, ships expected to form part of this line were called the "main line of battle ships", or battleships for short. A ship needed at least 50 guns to survive in the line of battle in 1715 increasing to 60 in 1760 and 74 in 1805. These ships would eventually be divided into first-, second- and third-rates. Fourth and fifth-rates were frigates, and sixth-rates were sloops (strictly "sloops-of-war"). These vessels were used for communications and reconnaissance and did not usually fight in fleet encounters. Although this scheme worked well in the 18th Century, from the middle of the 19th Century, the terminology became confused by the introduction of large steam-powered armoured single-deck ships with a small number of very powerful guns. These were technically frigates because they had a single gundeck, but were designed to fight as ships of the line.

Early Warships

The origin of battleships can be found in the "great ships", such as galleons, which had existed in several European countries since around 1410. These large Western ships were themselves preceded by the great sailing junks of the Chinese Empire, described by various travelers to the East such as Marco Polo and Niccolò Da Conti, and used during the travels of Admiral Zheng He in the early 15th century, and by the various cogs and busses in the Baltic Sea region, and galleasses and mahons in the Mediterranean Sea.

Following the development of the line of battle, first used with ships of the line by England, the Netherlands and Spain in the early 17th century, battleships became for over 300 years the main instrument of naval warfare by European countries, allowing nations such as the Netherlands, Spain, France and, most notably, Britain, to create and maintain trade-based overseas empires.

In the 17th century fleets could consist of almost a hundred ships of various sizes, but by the mid 18th century, ship-of-the-line design had settled on a few standard types: older two-deckers (i.e. with two complete decks of guns firing through side ports) of 50 guns (which were too weak for the battle-line but could be used to escort convoys), two-deckers of between 64 and 90 guns which formed the main part of the fleet, and larger three- or even four-deckers with 98–144 guns which were used as admirals' command ships. Fleets consisting of perhaps 10–25 of these ships kept control of the sea-lanes for major European naval powers whilst restricting sea-borne trade of enemies.

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