sixth-rate
adjDefinitions
Of a Royal Navy warship in the Napoleonic Era
Of a Royal Navy warship in the Napoleonic Era: having 20–28 guns on one gun deck, a complement of 140–200, and weighing 340–550 tons burthen.
- The Navy classified warships by their number of cannons, and with twenty-eight, she was a sixth-rate–the lowest rank.
Terrible, awful
Terrible, awful; less than fifth-rate.
A sixth-rate warship.
The neighborhood
- neighborfifth-rate
- neighborfirst-rate
- neighborfourth-rate
- neighborsecond-rate
- neighborthird-rate
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