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In the rating system of the Royal Navy, a third rate was a ship of the line which from the 1720s mounted between 64 and 80 guns, typically built with two.

Expedition was rebuilt as a 70-gun third rate in.

HMS Captain was a 70-gun third rate ship of the line of the Royal Navy, launched at Woolwich Dockyard in 1678.

HMS Rupert third rate, 66 guns.

1667 HMS Resolution third rate, 70 guns.

1673 HMS Swiftsure third rate, 70 guns.

1674 HMS Harwich third rate, 70 guns.

HMS Russell was an 80-gun third rate ship of the line of the Royal Navy, launched at Portsmouth Dockyard on 3 June 1692.

HMS Newark was an 80-gun third rate ship of the line of the Royal Navy, launched at Hull on 3 June 1695.

HMS Humber was an 80-gun third rate ship of the line of the Royal Navy, launched at Hull on 30 March 1693.

HMS Lancaster was an 80-gun third rate ship of the line of the Royal Navy, launched at Bursledon on 3 April 1694.

Synonyms:

tierce; common fraction; third; simple fraction;

Antonyms:

cardinal;