I have already alluded to the tendency to restrict the construction of line-of-battle ships to those of the medium classes.
Lord Keith, who commanded in the Downs, had under him six sail of the line in addition to many frigates and sloops; and there were five more line-of-battle ships ready at Spithead if required.
Soon after this, while cruising off Boston, a squadron of four French line-of-battle ships and a frigate were seen from the masthead.
We had just sailed from Gibraltar, when two Spanish line-of-battle ships followed us.
Their men were nearly all on board line-of-battle ships.
The town was shaken by the Imperial salute of 101 guns from each of the five French line-of-battle ships.
The French and Turkish line-of-battle ships joined us in the course of the day.
A name given to forty line-of-battle ships ordered by the Admiralty at one fell swoop, to be built by contract, towards the end of the Napoleon war, and which turned out badly.
In line-of-battle ships it is generally placed on the fife-rail in the centre and foremost part of the poop.
The projecting open galleries of old line-of-battle ships' sterns, now disused.
My astonishment at finding myself among the line-of-battle ships at Spithead was very great.
I once belonged to a frigate, when we fell in with two of the enemy's line-of-battle ships, and brought them to action.
I had been about to ask the boatswain how he got clear of the two line-of-battle ships, when this interruption occurred.
The squadron now in front of Rodney consisted of eleven line-of-battle ships, one of eighty and ten of seventy guns, and two frigates.
On either side of these sailed the line-of-battle ships.
It consisted of thirteen line-of-battle ships, three carrying eighty guns and one one hundred and twenty guns, and four frigates.
He had persuaded or bullied Spain into placing under the French flag a squadron of six line-of-battle ships, including two leviathans of 112 guns each, lying in the harbour of Cadiz.
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