Engineering:Two-decker
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Short description: Type of warship
A two-decker is a sail warship which carried her guns on two fully armed decks.[1] Usually additional guns were carried on the upper works (forecastle and quarterdeck), but this was not a continuous battery and thus not counted as a full gun deck.
Two-deckers ranged all the way from the small 40-gun Fifth rate up to 80- or even 90-gun ships of the line, with the third-rate of seventy-four guns, or "seventy-four", being the archetype.
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References
- ↑ Anderson, Romola; Anderson, R. C. (2012-06-11) (in en). A Short History of the Sailing Ship. Courier Corporation. ISBN 978-0-486-14952-3. https://books.google.com/books?id=Re-7AQAAQBAJ&dq=Two-decker+ship&pg=PA107-IA19.
Original source: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Two-decker.
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