The ''Ganges''-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 involved the two column ...

were a class of six 74-gun

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s, designed for the

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by Sir Edward Hunt in 1779.

Ships

* :Builder: Randall,

Rotherhithe Rotherhithe ( ) is a district of South London, England, and part of the London Borough of Southwark. It is on a peninsula on the south bank of the Thames, facing Wapping, Shadwell and Limehouse on the north bank, with the Isle of Dogs to the ea ...

:Ordered: 14 July 1779 :Launched: 30 March 1782 :Fate: Broken up, 1816 * :Builder: Randall, Rotherhithe :Ordered: 12 July 1779 :Launched: 16 June 1783 :Fate: Broken up, 1813 * :Builder: Barnard,

Deptford Deptford is an area on the south bank of the River Thames in southeast London, in the Royal Borough of Greenwich and London Borough of Lewisham. It is named after a Ford (crossing), ford of the River Ravensbourne. From the mid 16th century ...

:Ordered: 1 January 1782 :Launched: 30 October 1784 :Fate: Sold out of the service, 1897 * :Builder:

Woolwich Dockyard Woolwich Dockyard (formally H.M. Dockyard, Woolwich, also known as The King's Yard, Woolwich) was an English Royal Navy Dockyard, naval dockyard along the river Thames at Woolwich - originally in north-west Kent, now in southeast London - whe ...

:Ordered: 25 June 1801 :Launched: 15 March 1808 :Fate: Broken up, 1861 * :Builder:

Lovji Nusserwanjee Wadia Lovji Nusserwanjee Wadia (Lowjee Nusserwanjee Wadia) (1702–1774) was a Parsi from Surat province of Gujarat in India and was a member of the Wadia family of shipwrights and naval architects. Lovji was the founder of Wadia Group in 1736. Lov ...

, Duncan Docks, Bombay :Ordered: 9 July 1801 :Launched: 19 June 1810 :Fate: Sold out of the service, 1861 * :Builder:

Chatham Dockyard Chatham Dockyard was a Royal Navy Dockyard located on the River Medway in Kent. Established in Chatham, Kent, Chatham in the mid-16th century, the dockyard subsequently expanded into neighbouring Gillingham, Kent, Gillingham; at its most extens ...

:Ordered: 3 December 1811 :Laid Down: December 1812 :Launched: 15 April 1816 :Fate: Hulked, 1842, Broken up 1869

References

*Lavery, Brian (1983) ''The Ship of the Line - Volume 1: The development of the battlefleet 1650-1850.'' Conway Maritime Press. . * Lyon, David, ''The Sailing Navy List, All the Ships of the Royal Navy - Built, Purchased and Captured 1688-1860'', pub Conway Maritime Press, 1993, Ship of the line classes {{UK-line-ship-stub