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A Sixty-gun Ship of late Seventeenth Century[Frontispiece]
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A Tudor Ship of Period 1540–50[60]
Tudor Ships under Sail[124]
The Speaker, a Second-rate of the Commonwealth[180]
The Comet of 1812[224]
Rattler versus Alecto[240]
The Warrior[260]
The Monarch[280]