The Leviathans of the Royal Navy - The First-Rate Ships of the Line

Yeah - there are a lot of very clever people, with a great deal of knowledge and experience...... These people who built these ships, are doing the same things with wood, that we are doing with carbon fibre, teflon, fibre glass, titanium, alumium, steel and assorted resins etc....

@Life_N_Times_of_Shane_T_Hanson: It's also interesting what they did with older ships of the line like HMS Indefatigable. Cut the top deck off then use it as a frigate. Beats decommissioning.

@Councilof1: Ouch - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/HMS_Indefatigable ===> This one. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/....HMS_Indefatigable_(1 ------------- Design modification In 1794, she was razéed; her upper gun deck was cut away to convert her into a large and heavily armed frigate. The original intention was to retain her twenty-six 24-pounder guns on her gundeck, and to mount eight 12-pounder guns on her quarterdeck and a further four on her forecastle, which would have rated her as a 38-gun vessel. ------------- https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Razee ------------------- A razee or razée /rəˈziː/[1] is a sailing ship that has been cut down (razeed) to reduce the number of decks. The word is derived from the French vaisseau rasé, meaning a razed (in the sense of shaved down) ship.[2]

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