Ajax class ship of the line
- Ajax class ship of the line
The "Ajax"-class ships of the line were a class of two 74-gun third rates of the Royal Navy. They were grouped in with the large class of 74s, as they carried 24 pdrs on their upper gun decks, rather than the 18 pdrs of the middling and common class 74s. The design of the "Ajax"-class was a lengthened version of the HMS|Invincible|1765|2.
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*HMS|Kent|1798|6:Builder: Perry, Blackwall:Ordered: 10 June 1795:Launched: 17 January 1798:Fate: Broken up, 1881
*HMS|Ajax|1798|6:Builder: Randall, Rotherhithe:Ordered: 10 June 1795:Launched: 3 March 1798:Fate: Accidentally burnt, 1807
References
*Lavery, Brian (2003) "The Ship of the Line - Volume 1: The development of the battlefleet 1650-1850." Conway Maritime Press. ISBN 0-85177-252-8.
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