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Ardent class ship of the line

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Class overview
Name: Ardent
Operators:
Preceded by: Exeter-class
Succeeded by: Intrepid-class
In service: 13 August 1764 – 1816
Completed: 7
Lost: 2
General characteristics
Type: Ship of the line
Length:
  • 160 ft (49 m) (gundeck)
  • 131 ft 8 in (40.13 m) (keel)
Beam: 44 ft 4 in (13.51 m)
Propulsion: Sails
Armament:
  • 64 guns:
  • Gundeck: 26 × 24-pounders
  • Upper gundeck: 26 × 18-pounders
  • Quarterdeck: 10 × 4-pounders
  • Forecastle: 2 × 9-pounders
Notes: Ships in class include: Ardent, Raisonnable, Agamemnon, Belliqueux, Stately, Indefatigable, Nassau

The Ardent-class ships of the line were a class of seven 64-gun third rates, designed for the Royal Navy by Sir Thomas Slade.

Slade based the design of the Ardent-class on the captured French ship Fougueux.



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