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- Fourth-rate abstract "A fourth-rate was, in the British Royal Navy during the first half of the 18th century, a ship of the line mounting from 46 up to 60 guns. While the number of guns stayed subsequently in the same range up until 1817, after 1756 the ships of 50 guns and below were considered too weak to stand in the line of battle, although the remaining 60-gun ships were still classed as fit to be ships of the line. However, the 50-gun ship continued to be used largely during the Seven Years' War, and during the time of the American Revolution a whole new group of 50-gun ships was constructed, not for the battlefleet, but to meet the needs of combat in the shallow waters off North America where the larger ships found it difficult to sail. But by the French Revolutionary and Napoleonic Wars, even this function was in retreat, and few 50s were built. The 60-gun ships were also dying out, superseded initially by the 74-gun third-rates, although by 1793 there were still four 60-gun ships left in harbour service. The few 50s that remained were relegated to convoy escort, or as flagships on far-flung stations; a number were also converted to troopships, armed only "en flûte" (i.e., with most of the guns removed or stored below decks, to make more room for passengers or cargo).Some fourth-rates did remain in active service even during the Napoleonic Wars, especially in the shallow North Sea, where the Royal Navy's main opponents were the Baltic powers and the Dutch, whose own fleet consisted mainly of 50- to 64-gun ships (e.g. the 56-gun Delft). However, HMS Leander, 50 guns, was with Horatio Nelson at the Battle of the Nile. As late as 1807, fourth-rates were active in combat zones, illustrated by the fatal incident between HMS Leopard (50 guns), and the US frigate Chesapeake (38 guns), an incident which nearly led to war.The American 44-gun frigates Constitution, United States and President were never in operational use armed with fewer than 50 guns including carronades, and were generally seen as equivalent to fourth-rates. The larger British 24-pounder frigates such as the later 1813 Leander and Newcastle, were of similar firepower to those big American 44s. The latter were launched (or razéed - i.e. converted by cutting down by one deck from existing smaller third-rate 74-gun two-deckers) during the last years of the Napoleonic War and the War of 1812 and were classed as fourth-rates in Royal Naval service under the revised rating system. This convention continued into the 19th century. Any of these later large fourth-rate frigates threw a close-range broadside (including from their heavy carronades) far superior to the earlier two-decker 50s or even to third-rate 64s.Some ships of commerce such as the East Indiamen were heavily armed in order to protect themselves from pirates and privateers, effectively making them equivalent to fourth-rate ships of the line. The Royal Navy also converted some East Indiamen into fourth-rates for convoy duty, such as HMS Calcutta.".
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- Fourth-rate wikiPageRevisionID "669153256".
- Fourth-rate wikiPageWikiLink American_Revolution.
- Fourth-rate wikiPageWikiLink Battle_of_the_Nile.
- Fourth-rate wikiPageWikiLink Carronade.
- Fourth-rate wikiPageWikiLink Carronades.
- Fourth-rate wikiPageWikiLink Category:Rating_system_of_the_Royal_Navy.
- Fourth-rate wikiPageWikiLink Chesapeake-Leopard_Affair.
- Fourth-rate wikiPageWikiLink Chesapeake–Leopard_Affair.
- Fourth-rate wikiPageWikiLink Dutch_ship_Delft.
- Fourth-rate wikiPageWikiLink East_Indiaman.
- Fourth-rate wikiPageWikiLink East_Indiamen.
- Fourth-rate wikiPageWikiLink En_flûte.
- Fourth-rate wikiPageWikiLink French_Revolutionary_Wars.
- Fourth-rate wikiPageWikiLink Frigate.
- Fourth-rate wikiPageWikiLink HMS_Calcutta_(1795).
- Fourth-rate wikiPageWikiLink HMS_Leander_(1780).
- Fourth-rate wikiPageWikiLink HMS_Leander_(1813).
- Fourth-rate wikiPageWikiLink HMS_Leopard_(1790).
- Fourth-rate wikiPageWikiLink HMS_Newcastle_(1813).
- Fourth-rate wikiPageWikiLink Horatio_Nelson.
- Fourth-rate wikiPageWikiLink Horatio_Nelson,_1st_Viscount_Nelson.
- Fourth-rate wikiPageWikiLink Napoleonic_Wars.
- Fourth-rate wikiPageWikiLink Netherlands.
- Fourth-rate wikiPageWikiLink North_Sea.
- Fourth-rate wikiPageWikiLink Piracy.
- Fourth-rate wikiPageWikiLink Pirate.
- Fourth-rate wikiPageWikiLink Privateer.
- Fourth-rate wikiPageWikiLink Razee.
- Fourth-rate wikiPageWikiLink Royal_Navy.
- Fourth-rate wikiPageWikiLink Sailing_frigate.
- Fourth-rate wikiPageWikiLink Seven_Years_War.
- Fourth-rate wikiPageWikiLink Ship_of_the_line.
- Fourth-rate wikiPageWikiLink Third-rate.
- Fourth-rate wikiPageWikiLink USS_Chesapeake_(1799).
- Fourth-rate wikiPageWikiLink USS_Constitution.
- Fourth-rate wikiPageWikiLink USS_President_(1800).
- Fourth-rate wikiPageWikiLink USS_United_States_(1797).
- Fourth-rate wikiPageWikiLink War_of_1812.
- Fourth-rate wikiPageWikiLinkText "4th rate".
- Fourth-rate wikiPageWikiLinkText "50-gun".
- Fourth-rate wikiPageWikiLinkText "Fourth Rate".
- Fourth-rate wikiPageWikiLinkText "Fourth-rate".
- Fourth-rate wikiPageWikiLinkText "fourth rate".
- Fourth-rate wikiPageWikiLinkText "fourth-rate ship".
- Fourth-rate wikiPageWikiLinkText "fourth-rate".
- Fourth-rate hasPhotoCollection Fourth-rate.
- Fourth-rate wikiPageUsesTemplate Template:Rating_system_of_the_Royal_Navy.
- Fourth-rate subject Category:Rating_system_of_the_Royal_Navy.
- Fourth-rate type Term.
- Fourth-rate comment "A fourth-rate was, in the British Royal Navy during the first half of the 18th century, a ship of the line mounting from 46 up to 60 guns. While the number of guns stayed subsequently in the same range up until 1817, after 1756 the ships of 50 guns and below were considered too weak to stand in the line of battle, although the remaining 60-gun ships were still classed as fit to be ships of the line.".
- Fourth-rate label "Fourth-rate".
- Fourth-rate sameAs Quatrième_rang.
- Fourth-rate sameAs 4等艦.
- Fourth-rate sameAs m.01n0gc.
- Fourth-rate sameAs Корабль_4_ранга_(парусный).
- Fourth-rate sameAs Q892562.
- Fourth-rate sameAs Q892562.
- Fourth-rate wasDerivedFrom Fourth-rate?oldid=669153256.
- Fourth-rate isPrimaryTopicOf Fourth-rate.