Ross Beattie is collecting details on the following ships: further information is always welcome.
Links will be added as soon as possible to provide greater detail for each of these vessels.

 Glossary

• Tonnage or tunnage - historically an English tax levied on wine imported in tuns, or large casks equivalent to two pipes or four hogsheads - 252 old wine-gallons. The meaning of the term broadened through common usage to reflect a charge or payment for the hire of a vessel or the cartage of its freight (1587-1617), to an estimate of the carrying capacity of a vessel expressed in tons of 100 cubic feet (1718). In England, for men-of-war, the term more usually refers to the weight of water displaced by the vessel (c1870).

  Tonnages of vessels can be variously expressed. Under-deck tonnage refers to the cubic content of the space under the tonnage deck, which in vessels of two or more decks is the second deck from below and the only deck in vessels of only one deck. Gross tonnage represents the under-deck tonnage with the addition of the contents of all enclosed spaces above the tonnage deck. Register tonnage is the gross tonnage less the space assigned for crew quarters, anchor lockers and any machinery (engines, boilers, etc.). Deadweight tonnage (or carrying capacity) is used occasionally to refer to the number of tons of twenty hundredweight that a vessel will carry laden to her load-line. Displacement tonnage refers to the number of twenty hundredweight tons of water displaced by a vessel laden to her load-line, used in England for men-of-war as mentioned above.

  Where two tonnages are given separated by a slash, such as "1140/1072 tons", the first figure refers to tonnage measured according to the old system, and the second figure the tonnage measured under the new system.

• Topsides -
• Wales -
  
• Category
  • Barque -
  • Ship - A vessel having a bowsprit and three or more masts each of which consists of a lower, top and topgallant mast, all with square sails primarily rigged across the width of the hull. For sailing ship, most people mean a large sea-going vessel, as opposed to a boat.
  • Frigate -
    
• Class
  • A - new wood and composite vessel, or vessel continued or restored
  • Æ - found on survey to be fit for conveyance of dry and perishable goods on shorter voyages
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• Materials
  • Saul - A valuable timber from India and Malaysia which yielded “dammar” or “cat’s-eye resin” often used for caulking in place of pitch.
  • Yellow metal - (naval brass): an alloy, approximately 60% copper, 39% zinc and 1% tin, used in castings only where not continuously exposed to sea-water. These castings were used for under-water fittings on wooden vessels: for example, watertight door fittings, hand rails, flagpole sockets, belaying pins.
    
• Repairs
  • Almost rebuilt - large repairs, but where the Rules for Restoration were not fully complied with.
  • Coppered -

    copper-sheathed: on wooden vessels, the sheathing of the under-water part of the hull with copper as protection against the growth of fouling organisms and the ravages of borers.

    copper-fastened: on wooden vessels, the planking below load line being fastened with copper or bronze bolts rather than iron or steel bolts.

  • Doubling - The covering the vessel's hull with extra planking, internally or externally, when planking joints have worked loose through age or some other cause.
  • Felting - The laying of sheets of felt (a matted fibrous material commonly made of wool mixed with hair and impregnated with creosote, coal tar or similar) between the outer immersed planks and copper or Muntz sheathing over the hull of a immersed part of a vessel's hull, to protect the planking from burrowing worm-like molluscs (eg. Teredo natalis or ship worm). Softwood vessels such as American ships were frequently felted.
  • Sheathing - A protective layer or covering laid on the external bottom of a wooden vessel (1587). Originally the sheathings were wooden boards, though from c1615 metals (especially copper) was used. Helped to discourage the growth of weeds and barnacles.
  • Iron bolted -
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