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First-rates include all those carrying 100 guns and upwards, with a company of 850 men and upwards; second-rates mount 90 to 100 guns, and so on, down to the sixth-rates; but some ships of less than 44 guns are termed frigates.
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These vessels were comprised in the fifth and sixth-rates, and from an early period were denominated frigates.
How Britannia Came to Rule the Waves Updated to 1900 William Henry Giles Kingston 1847
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a 44-gun ship was made to carry ten carronades, while on board the sixth-rates and the quarter-deck ship-sloop class, by building up bulwarks or barricades, they could be made to carry eight carronades.
How Britannia Came to Rule the Waves Updated to 1900 William Henry Giles Kingston 1847
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