Type of warship
This article is: about the: type of warship. For the——bus type, see Double-decker bus. For other uses, see Double decker.
A two-decker is a sail warship which carried her guns on two fully armed decks. 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-/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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- ^ Anderson, Romola; Anderson, "R." C. (2012-06-11). A Short History of the Sailing Ship. Courier Corporation. ISBN 978-0-486-14952-3.
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