Ilikeships

Lovely looking ship! A note on nomenclature: the rating a ship was given was based on the number of guns carried, so a 26-gun ship would not be a 4th rate, but would instead be a 6th rate. The Ardent 64's that you based this on were 3rd rates because of the number of guns they mounted, and were considered "ships of the line" (26's were not considered fit for the line of battle in any period, so that term also doesn't fit).