The ''Arrogant''-class
ships of the line
A ship of the line was a type of naval warship constructed during the Age of Sail from the 17th century to the mid-19th century. The ship of the line was designed for the naval tactic known as the line of battle, which depended on the two colu ...
were a class of twelve
74-gun
The "seventy-four" was a type of two- decked sailing ship of the line, which nominally carried 74 guns. It was developed by the French navy in the 1740s, replacing earlier classes of 60- and 62-gun ships, as a larger complement to the recently-de ...
third rate
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 gun decks (thus the related term two-decker). Years of experience proved that the thir ...
ships designed by Sir
Thomas Slade
Sir Thomas Slade (1703/4–1771) was an English naval architect, most famous for designing HMS ''Victory'', Lord Nelson's flagship at the Battle of Trafalgar in 1805.
Early life
He was the son of Arthur Slade (1682–1746) and his wife Hann ...
for the
Royal Navy
The Royal Navy (RN) is the United Kingdom's naval warfare force. Although warships were used by Kingdom of England, English and Kingdom of Scotland, Scottish kings from the early medieval period, the first major maritime engagements were foug ...
.
Design
The ''Arrogant''-class ships were designed as a development of Slade's previous , sharing the same basic dimensions. During this period, the original armament was the same across all the ships of the common class, of which the ''Arrogant''-class ships were members. Two ships were ordered on 13 December 1758 to this design (at the same time as the fourth and fifth units of the ''Bellona'' class), and a further ten ships were built to a slightly modified version of the ''Arrogant'' design from 1773 onwards.
Ships
References
*Lavery, Brian (1983) ''The Ship of the Line – Volume 1: The development of the battlefleet 1650–1850.'' Conway Maritime Press. .
*Winfield, Rif (2007) ''British Warships in the Age of Sail 1714–1792; Design, Construction, Careers and Fates''. Seaforth Publishing. .
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{{Arrogant class ship of the line
Ship of the line classes
Ship classes of the Royal Navy