2 nd Rate
Second rate ship-of-the-line
In the Royal Navy, a second-rate was a ship of the line mounting 90 to 98 guns, typically built with three gun decks.The second-rate three-decker was an essentially British type of ship, it was not built by other European navies to any great degree. It was unhandy even for a three-decker, and it terms of sheer firepower it was matched or more than matched by the 80 and 74-gun two-deckers third-rate the French and Spanish navies used in its stead. Read More..
