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Advice Boat

Includes national vessel types

  Aviso (France)

There are currently 30 purpose built and 1 converted Advice Boat listed in Threedecks. Please use the ship search to see them all.


A small vessel employed to carry expresses or orders with all possible dispatch


Armed Ship

There are currently 165 purpose built and 2 converted Armed Ship listed in Threedecks. Please use the ship search to see them all.


A ship, usually a hired merchant vessel, lightly armed for protective purposes only.


Armed Storeship

There are currently 20 purpose built and 1 converted Armed Storeship listed in Threedecks. Please use the ship search to see them all.


A vessel armed for protection and used to carry supplys for a fleet or squadron


Armed Troopship

There are currently 4 purpose built Armed Troopship listed in Threedecks. Please use the ship search to see them all.


A vessel armed for protection and used for the transportation of soldiers


Armed Vessel

There are currently 29 purpose built Armed Vessel listed in Threedecks. Please use the ship search to see them all.


An general classification used for a ship which dosn't fall neatly within a more specific category


Ballinger

There are currently 5 purpose built Ballinger listed in Threedecks. Please use the ship search to see them all.


A small sailing vessel, with one or two masts, also capable of maneuver using oars, common in the 13th through 16th centuries.


Barangayan

There are currently 0 purpose built Barangayan listed in Threedecks. Please use the ship search to see them all.


Local Philippine fishing boat. “Barangay” means neighborhood association or barrio in Tagalog.


Barge

There are currently 8 purpose built and 10 converted Barge listed in Threedecks. Please use the ship search to see them all.

 

Bark

There are currently 20 purpose built Bark listed in Threedecks. Please use the ship search to see them all.


A general name given to small ships: it is however peculiarly appropriated by seamen to those which carry three masts without a mizen top-sail. Our northern mariners, who are trained in the coal-trade, apply this distinction to a broad-sterned ship, which carries no ornamental figure on the stem or prow.


Barque Longue

There are currently 103 purpose built and 2 converted Barque Longue listed in Threedecks. Please use the ship search to see them all.


Also Barca-LongaA large Spanish tithing-boat, navigated with lug-sails, and having two or three masts: these are very common in the Mediterranean. For French , from 1674 to 1690 :4 to 8 guns same as corvette from 1696 to 1746 : 10 to 12 guns up to 16 when named corvettes


Barques latines

There are currently 4 purpose built Barques latines listed in Threedecks. Please use the ship search to see them all.


Assumed to be a fore and aft rigged vessel, otherwise similar in purpose and size to a Barques Longue. (This needs to be confirmed)


Bergantin Goleta

There are currently 7 purpose built Bergantin Goleta listed in Threedecks. Please use the ship search to see them all.

 

Block Sloop

There are currently 1 purpose built Block Sloop listed in Threedecks. Please use the ship search to see them all.

 

Blockship

There are currently 1 purpose built Blockship listed in Threedecks. Please use the ship search to see them all.

 

Boat

There are currently 15 purpose built Boat listed in Threedecks. Please use the ship search to see them all.

 

Boejers

There are currently 15 purpose built Boejers listed in Threedecks. Please use the ship search to see them all.


A small single-masted Dutch vessel with an extreme rounded stern and bow, normally carrying leeboards. It had a very shallow draft but a relatively tall mast, intended for use on canals, rivers and coastal regions.


Bomb Vessel

There are currently 209 purpose built and 39 converted Bomb Vessel listed in Threedecks. Please use the ship search to see them all.


A small vessel particularly calculated to throw shells into a fortress. They are said to be invented by M. Reyneau, and to have been first put in action at the bombardment of Algiers. Till then it had been judged impraticable to bombard a place from the sea.


Brig

There are currently 992 purpose built and 48 converted Brig listed in Threedecks. Please use the ship search to see them all.

 

Brig-Aviso

There are currently 7 purpose built and 17 converted Brig-Aviso listed in Threedecks. Please use the ship search to see them all.

 

Brig-Corvette

There are currently 45 purpose built and 1 converted Brig-Corvette listed in Threedecks. Please use the ship search to see them all.

 

Brigantine

There are currently 229 purpose built and 6 converted Brigantine listed in Threedecks. Please use the ship search to see them all.

 

Buoy Boat

There are currently 1 purpose built Buoy Boat listed in Threedecks. Please use the ship search to see them all.

 

Buss

There are currently 0 purpose built Buss listed in Threedecks. Please use the ship search to see them all.


Smallish two masted vessels with simple square sails. Used by the English and Dutch herring fishing industry


Canoe

There are currently 0 purpose built Canoe listed in Threedecks. Please use the ship search to see them all.

 

Caravel

There are currently 14 purpose built Caravel listed in Threedecks. Please use the ship search to see them all.


A small, highly maneuverable sailing ship developed in the 15th century by the Portuguese to explore along the West African coast and into the Atlantic Ocean. The lateen sails gave her speed and the capacity for sailing to windward (beating). Caravels were much used by the Portuguese for the oceanic exploration voyages during the 15th and 16th centuries in the age of discovery.


Careening Hulk

There are currently 1 purpose built and 7 converted Careening Hulk listed in Threedecks. Please use the ship search to see them all.

 

Carrack

There are currently 15 purpose built Carrack listed in Threedecks. Please use the ship search to see them all.


A sailing ship of the 14th–17th centuries that was usually built with three masts, the mainmast and foremast being rigged with square sails and the mizzenmast rigged with a fore-and-aft triangular lateen sail.


Cat

There are currently 16 purpose built Cat listed in Threedecks. Please use the ship search to see them all.


Catboat, or a cat-rigged sailboat, is a sailing vessel characterized by a single mast carried well forward (i.e., near the front of the boat)


Chain Boat

There are currently 5 purpose built Chain Boat listed in Threedecks. Please use the ship search to see them all.

 

Chasse-Maree

There are currently 7 purpose built Chasse-Maree listed in Threedecks. Please use the ship search to see them all.

 

Coal Depot

There are currently 0 purpose built and 20 converted Coal Depot listed in Threedecks. Please use the ship search to see them all.

 

Cog

There are currently 2 purpose built Cog listed in Threedecks. Please use the ship search to see them all.

 

Collier

There are currently 3 purpose built Collier listed in Threedecks. Please use the ship search to see them all.


A ship built to carry coal


Convalescent Ship

There are currently 0 purpose built and 3 converted Convalescent Ship listed in Threedecks. Please use the ship search to see them all.

 

Convict Ship

There are currently 2 purpose built and 2 converted Convict Ship listed in Threedecks. Please use the ship search to see them all.


Any ship engaged on a voyage to carry convicted felons under sentence of penal transportation from their place of conviction to their place of exile. From Wikipedia.


Corvette

There are currently 489 purpose built and 25 converted Corvette listed in Threedecks. Please use the ship search to see them all.

 

Country Ship

There are currently 3 purpose built Country Ship listed in Threedecks. Please use the ship search to see them all.


Merchant ships that plied between ports in the Eastern seas sometimes under HEIC company colours.


Cutter

There are currently 801 purpose built and 11 converted Cutter listed in Threedecks. Please use the ship search to see them all.


A small, speedy sailing vessel similar to a sloop. It has a single mast rigged fore and aft, carrying a mainsail and at least two headsails. Its traditional hull design, deep and narrow, features a raking transom stern, a vertical stem, and a long bowsprit.


Demi-Batterie

There are currently 2 purpose built Demi-Batterie listed in Threedecks. Please use the ship search to see them all.

 

Demi-Galley

There are currently 5 purpose built Demi-Galley listed in Threedecks. Please use the ship search to see them all.

 

Dirt Boat

There are currently 0 purpose built Dirt Boat listed in Threedecks. Please use the ship search to see them all.

 

Discovery Vessel

There are currently 11 purpose built and 1 converted Discovery Vessel listed in Threedecks. Please use the ship search to see them all.

 

Dockyard Cutter

There are currently 0 purpose built Dockyard Cutter listed in Threedecks. Please use the ship search to see them all.

 

Dogger

There are currently 53 purpose built Dogger listed in Threedecks. Please use the ship search to see them all.

 

East Indiaman

There are currently 1,144 purpose built and 40 converted East Indiaman listed in Threedecks. Please use the ship search to see them all.

 

Exploration Vessel

There are currently 5 purpose built Exploration Vessel listed in Threedecks. Please use the ship search to see them all.

 

Felucca

There are currently 13 purpose built Felucca listed in Threedecks. Please use the ship search to see them all.


A felucca is a traditional wooden sailing boat used in the Mediterranean—including around Malta and Tunisia—in Egypt and Sudan (particularly along the Nile and in protected waters of the Red Sea), and also in Iraq. Its rig consists of one or two lateen sails. They are usually able to board ten passengers and the crew consists of two or three people.  


Fire Vessel

There are currently 13 purpose built and 5 converted Fire Vessel listed in Threedecks. Please use the ship search to see them all.

 

Fireship

Includes national vessel types

  Brûlot (France)

There are currently 420 purpose built and 104 converted Fireship listed in Threedecks. Please use the ship search to see them all.


A ship loaded with burning material and explosives and set adrift to ignite and blow up an enemy's ships.


First Class Paddle Frigate

There are currently 1 purpose built First Class Paddle Frigate listed in Threedecks. Please use the ship search to see them all.

 

Floating Battery

There are currently 26 purpose built and 53 converted Floating Battery listed in Threedecks. Please use the ship search to see them all.

 

Floating Chapel

There are currently 0 purpose built and 1 converted Floating Chapel listed in Threedecks. Please use the ship search to see them all.

 

Floating Workshop

There are currently 0 purpose built and 1 converted Floating Workshop listed in Threedecks. Please use the ship search to see them all.

 

Fluit

There are currently 47 purpose built Fluit listed in Threedecks. Please use the ship search to see them all.


This type includes vessels calssified as:Danish "Fløjte"French "Flûte"


Flute

There are currently 7 purpose built and 5 converted Flute listed in Threedecks. Please use the ship search to see them all.

 

Flûte

There are currently 124 purpose built and 11 converted Flûte listed in Threedecks. Please use the ship search to see them all.

 

Fly Boat

There are currently 33 purpose built Fly Boat listed in Threedecks. Please use the ship search to see them all.

 

Frigate

Includes national vessel types

  Frégate (France)
  Frégate à deux batteries (France)
  Frégate Légère (France)
  Frégate-Vaisseau de 1er Ordre (France)
  Frégate-Vaisseau de 2ème Ordre (Demi-Batterie) (France)
  Frégate-Vaisseau de 3ème Ordre (France)
  Galley-Frigate (Great Britain)
  Rowing Frigate (Russia)

There are currently 2,780 purpose built and 110 converted Frigate listed in Threedecks. Please use the ship search to see them all.

 

Gabarre

There are currently 87 purpose built and 4 converted Gabarre listed in Threedecks. Please use the ship search to see them all.


A schooner


Galleasse

There are currently 19 purpose built Galleasse listed in Threedecks. Please use the ship search to see them all.


A galleass was a warship of the Renaissance that combined the sails and armament of a galleon or carrack with the propulsion and maneuverability of the oared galley.


Galleon

There are currently 263 purpose built and 9 converted Galleon listed in Threedecks. Please use the ship search to see them all.


Galleons were large, multi-decked sailing ships first used as armed cargo carriers by European states from the 16th to 18th centuries during the age of sail and were the principal vessels drafted for use as warships until the Anglo-Dutch Wars of the mid-1600s. Galleons generally carried three or more masts with a lateen fore-and-aft rig on the rear masts, were carvel built with a prominent squared off raised stern, and used square-rigged sail plans on their fore-mast and main-masts. From Wikipedia


Galley

There are currently 560 purpose built Galley listed in Threedecks. Please use the ship search to see them all.


A renassaince Mediterranean galley would have 25 pairs of oars, normally with 3 to 5 oarsmen per oar, and total of about 500 men


Galley-Frigate

There are currently 6 purpose built and 1 converted Galley-Frigate listed in Threedecks. Please use the ship search to see them all.

 

Galliot

There are currently 49 purpose built Galliot listed in Threedecks. Please use the ship search to see them all.


Also known as a half-galley, had two masts and about 16 pairs of oars. Mediteranean warships of this type typically carried between two and ten cannons of small caliber, and between 50 and 150 men. Commonly used by the Barbary pirates. Also a type of Dutch or Gerrnan flat bottomed merchant ship, simliar to a ketch Also a small French type of warship with lateen sails and oars.


Goleta

There are currently 36 purpose built Goleta listed in Threedecks. Please use the ship search to see them all.

 

Gondola

There are currently 4 purpose built Gondola listed in Threedecks. Please use the ship search to see them all.

 

Grab

There are currently 1 purpose built Grab listed in Threedecks. Please use the ship search to see them all.


18th century Indian Ocean vessel, 150-300 ton, two masts, with long overhanging prow and oars, form of galley.


Great Ship

There are currently 22 purpose built Great Ship listed in Threedecks. Please use the ship search to see them all.


Originally a term used in the 15C to refer to the largest Carracks in the Royal Navy. By the early 16C it was part of an early rating system denoting ships mounting approximately 40 guns, under Charles I they became ships of the Second Rank. Threedecks categorises Great Ships as 1st Rates prior to 1604 and Second Rates thereafter.


Guardship

There are currently 1 purpose built and 4 converted Guardship listed in Threedecks. Please use the ship search to see them all.

 

Gun-brig

There are currently 207 purpose built and 36 converted Gun-brig listed in Threedecks. Please use the ship search to see them all.


A brig-rigged vessel, usually carrying 10-12 guns, smaller than a sloop and generally less than 200 tons burthen. They would usually be commanded by a Lieutenant.


Gunbarge

There are currently 19 purpose built Gunbarge listed in Threedecks. Please use the ship search to see them all.

 

Gunboat

There are currently 402 purpose built and 4 converted Gunboat listed in Threedecks. Please use the ship search to see them all.


A small warship with at least one heavy gun, normally firing directly forwards aimed by pointing the entire boat at the target. These vessels were generally fore and aft rigged with one or two masts and carried sweeps to allow maneuver without wind.


Gunnery Training Ship

There are currently 0 purpose built and 4 converted Gunnery Training Ship listed in Threedecks. Please use the ship search to see them all.

 

Gunvessel

There are currently 35 purpose built and 1 converted Gunvessel listed in Threedecks. Please use the ship search to see them all.

 

Half-Galley

There are currently 6 purpose built Half-Galley listed in Threedecks. Please use the ship search to see them all.

 

Hemmema

There are currently 7 purpose built Hemmema listed in Threedecks. Please use the ship search to see them all.

 

Hooker

There are currently 11 purpose built Hooker listed in Threedecks. Please use the ship search to see them all.

 

Horseboat

There are currently 2 purpose built Horseboat listed in Threedecks. Please use the ship search to see them all.

 

Hospital Ship

There are currently 37 purpose built and 105 converted Hospital Ship listed in Threedecks. Please use the ship search to see them all.

 

Hoy

There are currently 54 purpose built Hoy listed in Threedecks. Please use the ship search to see them all.


A hoy was a small sloop-rigged coasting ship or a heavy barge used for freight.


Hulk

There are currently 48 purpose built and 225 converted Hulk listed in Threedecks. Please use the ship search to see them all.


A type of large merchantman in the 16C, or an un-fitted hull used for storage.


Ironclad Frigate

There are currently 0 purpose built and 1 converted Ironclad Frigate listed in Threedecks. Please use the ship search to see them all.

 

Junk

There are currently 1 purpose built Junk listed in Threedecks. Please use the ship search to see them all.


A junk is a type of Chinese sailing ship.


Ketch

There are currently 84 purpose built and 1 converted Ketch listed in Threedecks. Please use the ship search to see them all.

 

Kitz

There are currently 1 purpose built Kitz listed in Threedecks. Please use the ship search to see them all.


Danish ship type?


lanternas

There are currently 0 purpose built lanternas listed in Threedecks. Please use the ship search to see them all.


"Lantern Galleys" with 3 large lanterns at the stern for identification. A mediterranean style of command galley, larger than standard with 30 pairs of oars and up to seven rowers per oar. Armament consisted of one heavy 24 or 36-pounder and two to four 4 to 12-pounders in the bow


Lazarette

There are currently 0 purpose built and 19 converted Lazarette listed in Threedecks. Please use the ship search to see them all.

 

Letter of Marque

There are currently 45 purpose built and 4 converted Letter of Marque listed in Threedecks. Please use the ship search to see them all.

 

Lighter

There are currently 36 purpose built and 8 converted Lighter listed in Threedecks. Please use the ship search to see them all.

 

Longboat

There are currently 8 purpose built Longboat listed in Threedecks. Please use the ship search to see them all.

 

Lugger

There are currently 301 purpose built and 1 converted Lugger listed in Threedecks. Please use the ship search to see them all.

 

Machine Vessel

There are currently 23 purpose built and 1 converted Machine Vessel listed in Threedecks. Please use the ship search to see them all.


A Dutch national, Willem Meesters, was appointed to the Ordnance Board in 1690 and proposed the use of a watertight metal box fitted with a clockwork mechanism which acted as a detonator for the explosives. Around this were packed barrels of gunpowder and various old pieces of scrap metal and 'fireworks'. Some of his vessels were designed to explode with great violence, other to act as 'smoke vessels', producing thick clouds of blanketing smoke.


Merchantman

Includes national vessel types

  EIC Regular Ship (Great Britain)

There are currently 613 purpose built Merchantman listed in Threedecks. Please use the ship search to see them all.

 

Middling Ship

There are currently 10 purpose built Middling Ship listed in Threedecks. Please use the ship search to see them all.


One of the pre-rating system classifications used by the Royal Navy. Introduced in 1604 it was superceded by 'Third Rank' in 1626. All Middling Ships on Threedecks are classified as Third Rates.


Mistico

There are currently 4 purpose built Mistico listed in Threedecks. Please use the ship search to see them all.


A mistico was a large sailing coaster used in the Mediterranean in the 18th and 19th centuries. Misticos were decked vessels with long, low hulls and had two masts amidships that carried two lateen or settee sails and a jib. They ranged in size from 40 to 80 tons (bm), and had crews of five to nine men.


Mooring Lighter

There are currently 1 purpose built and 2 converted Mooring Lighter listed in Threedecks. Please use the ship search to see them all.

 

Mortar Vessel

There are currently 18 purpose built and 1 converted Mortar Vessel listed in Threedecks. Please use the ship search to see them all.

 

Packet

There are currently 150 purpose built and 29 converted Packet listed in Threedecks. Please use the ship search to see them all.


Small vessels intended for mail, passenger, and freight transportation


Paddle Frigate

There are currently 2 purpose built Paddle Frigate listed in Threedecks. Please use the ship search to see them all.

 

Paddle Sloop

There are currently 4 purpose built Paddle Sloop listed in Threedecks. Please use the ship search to see them all.

 

Paddle Steamer

There are currently 39 purpose built Paddle Steamer listed in Threedecks. Please use the ship search to see them all.

 

Patache

There are currently 24 purpose built Patache listed in Threedecks. Please use the ship search to see them all.


A patache is a type of sailing vessel with two masts, very light and shallow, a sort of cross between a brig and a schooner, which originally was a warship, being intended for surveillance and inspection of the coasts and ports. It was used as a tender to the fleet of vessels of more importance or size, and also for trans-Pacific travel, but later began to be used for trading voyages, carrying cargo burdens of 30 tons or more.


Pilot Boat

There are currently 17 purpose built and 1 converted Pilot Boat listed in Threedecks. Please use the ship search to see them all.

 

Pink

There are currently 58 purpose built Pink listed in Threedecks. Please use the ship search to see them all.

 

Pinnace

There are currently 129 purpose built Pinnace listed in Threedecks. Please use the ship search to see them all.

 

Polacca

There are currently 27 purpose built Polacca listed in Threedecks. Please use the ship search to see them all.

 

Pontship

There are currently 4 purpose built and 1 converted Pontship listed in Threedecks. Please use the ship search to see them all.


Dutch armed 'ferry'?


Poon

There are currently 1 purpose built Poon listed in Threedecks. Please use the ship search to see them all.

 

Post Ship

There are currently 92 purpose built and 63 converted Post Ship listed in Threedecks. Please use the ship search to see them all.

 

Powder Depot

There are currently 0 purpose built and 3 converted Powder Depot listed in Threedecks. Please use the ship search to see them all.

 

Powder Hulk

There are currently 1 purpose built and 29 converted Powder Hulk listed in Threedecks. Please use the ship search to see them all.

 

Powder Magazine

There are currently 0 purpose built and 11 converted Powder Magazine listed in Threedecks. Please use the ship search to see them all.

 

Poyama

There are currently 4 purpose built Poyama listed in Threedecks. Please use the ship search to see them all.

 

Praam

There are currently 44 purpose built and 5 converted Praam listed in Threedecks. Please use the ship search to see them all.

 

Prison hulk

There are currently 0 purpose built and 23 converted Prison hulk listed in Threedecks. Please use the ship search to see them all.

 

Prison Ship

There are currently 14 purpose built and 87 converted Prison Ship listed in Threedecks. Please use the ship search to see them all.

 

Prow

There are currently 1 purpose built Prow listed in Threedecks. Please use the ship search to see them all.

 

Quarter-Galley

There are currently 1 purpose built Quarter-Galley listed in Threedecks. Please use the ship search to see them all.

 

Radeau

There are currently 7 purpose built Radeau listed in Threedecks. Please use the ship search to see them all.

 

Receiving Hulk

There are currently 0 purpose built and 10 converted Receiving Hulk listed in Threedecks. Please use the ship search to see them all.

 

Receiving Ship

There are currently 1 purpose built and 86 converted Receiving Ship listed in Threedecks. Please use the ship search to see them all.

 

Row Boat

There are currently 8 purpose built Row Boat listed in Threedecks. Please use the ship search to see them all.

 

Rowbarge

There are currently 13 purpose built Rowbarge listed in Threedecks. Please use the ship search to see them all.

 

Rowing Frigate

There are currently 34 purpose built and 1 converted Rowing Frigate listed in Threedecks. Please use the ship search to see them all.

 

Saety

There are currently 4 purpose built Saety listed in Threedecks. Please use the ship search to see them all.

 

Schooner

Includes national vessel types

  Gabarre (France)

There are currently 1,091 purpose built and 13 converted Schooner listed in Threedecks. Please use the ship search to see them all.


French 'Gabarre'


Schuyt

There are currently 5 purpose built Schuyt listed in Threedecks. Please use the ship search to see them all.

 

Screw Frigate

There are currently 7 purpose built and 1 converted Screw Frigate listed in Threedecks. Please use the ship search to see them all.

 

Screw Frigate Blockship

There are currently 0 purpose built and 2 converted Screw Frigate Blockship listed in Threedecks. Please use the ship search to see them all.

 

Screw Mortar Frigate

There are currently 0 purpose built and 2 converted Screw Mortar Frigate listed in Threedecks. Please use the ship search to see them all.

 

Screw Ship of the Line

There are currently 11 purpose built and 8 converted Screw Ship of the Line listed in Threedecks. Please use the ship search to see them all.

 

Screw Sloop

There are currently 0 purpose built and 1 converted Screw Sloop listed in Threedecks. Please use the ship search to see them all.

 

Shallop

There are currently 19 purpose built Shallop listed in Threedecks. Please use the ship search to see them all.

 

Sheer Hulk

There are currently 4 purpose built and 26 converted Sheer Hulk listed in Threedecks. Please use the ship search to see them all.

 

Ship

There are currently 3,128 purpose built and 136 converted Ship listed in Threedecks. Please use the ship search to see them all.


A vessel with three square-rigged masts and a bowsprit.


Ship of the Line

Includes national vessel types

  Ship Royal (Great Britain)
  Vaisseaux (France)

There are currently 3,687 purpose built and 182 converted Ship of the Line listed in Threedecks. Please use the ship search to see them all.


3-masted vessel


Ship Royal

There are currently 6 purpose built Ship Royal listed in Threedecks. Please use the ship search to see them all.


The largest of the pre-rating system ship classifications. Introduced circa 1604 it included only the largest vessels from the 'Great Ships' classification and was superceded by 'First Rank' in 1626. All Ship Royal on Threedecks are classified as First Rates


Shore Establishment

There are currently 0 purpose built Shore Establishment listed in Threedecks. Please use the ship search to see them all.

 

Signal Station Vessel

There are currently 1 purpose built Signal Station Vessel listed in Threedecks. Please use the ship search to see them all.

 

Slave Ship

There are currently 30 purpose built and 5 converted Slave Ship listed in Threedecks. Please use the ship search to see them all.

 

Sloop

Includes national vessel types

  Brig Sloops (Great Britain)
  Ship Sloop (Great Britain)
  Sloop-of-War (United States of America)

There are currently 1,721 purpose built and 38 converted Sloop listed in Threedecks. Please use the ship search to see them all.


A warship, smaller than a frigate, generally with between 12 and 20 guns. Utillised as a cruiser, escort and againast privateers and corsairs. On Three Decks, the vessel type 'Sloop' includes vessels variously described as 'Brig-Sloops', 'Ship-Sloops' and 'Sloops-of-War'.


Slop Ship

There are currently 1 purpose built and 11 converted Slop Ship listed in Threedecks. Please use the ship search to see them all.

 

Smack

There are currently 48 purpose built Smack listed in Threedecks. Please use the ship search to see them all.

 

Snow

There are currently 197 purpose built and 5 converted Snow listed in Threedecks. Please use the ship search to see them all.


The sails and rigging on the main-mast and fore-mast of a snow, are exactly similar to those on the same masts in a ship only that there is a final mast behind the main-mast, of the former, which carries a sail nearly resembling the mizen of a ship The foot of this mast is fixed in a block of wood on the quarter-deck abaft the main-mast; and the head of it is attached to the after-part of the main-top. The sail, which is called the try sail, is extended from its mast towards the stern of the vessel.


Steam Ship

There are currently 5 purpose built Steam Ship listed in Threedecks. Please use the ship search to see them all.

 

Steam Sloop

There are currently 16 purpose built Steam Sloop listed in Threedecks. Please use the ship search to see them all.

 

Steam Vessel

There are currently 0 purpose built Steam Vessel listed in Threedecks. Please use the ship search to see them all.


All UK steam powered vessels where so rated prior to the introduction of five classes of steam vessel on 21st January 1837


Steam Vessel 1st Class

There are currently 0 purpose built Steam Vessel 1st Class listed in Threedecks. Please use the ship search to see them all.

 

Steam Vessel 2nd Class

There are currently 0 purpose built Steam Vessel 2nd Class listed in Threedecks. Please use the ship search to see them all.

 

Steam Vessel 3rd Class

There are currently 0 purpose built Steam Vessel 3rd Class listed in Threedecks. Please use the ship search to see them all.

 

Steam Vessel 4th Class

There are currently 0 purpose built Steam Vessel 4th Class listed in Threedecks. Please use the ship search to see them all.

 

Steam Vessel 5th Class

There are currently 0 purpose built Steam Vessel 5th Class listed in Threedecks. Please use the ship search to see them all.

 

Store Hulk

There are currently 0 purpose built and 8 converted Store Hulk listed in Threedecks. Please use the ship search to see them all.

 

Storeship

There are currently 166 purpose built and 78 converted Storeship listed in Threedecks. Please use the ship search to see them all.

 

Submarine

There are currently 1 purpose built Submarine listed in Threedecks. Please use the ship search to see them all.

 

Survey Vessel

There are currently 31 purpose built and 7 converted Survey Vessel listed in Threedecks. Please use the ship search to see them all.

 

Tartane

There are currently 32 purpose built and 1 converted Tartane listed in Threedecks. Please use the ship search to see them all.

 

Tender

Includes national vessel types

  Bomb Tender (Great Britain)

There are currently 249 purpose built and 8 converted Tender listed in Threedecks. Please use the ship search to see them all.

 

Topsail Schooner

There are currently 5 purpose built Topsail Schooner listed in Threedecks. Please use the ship search to see them all.

 

Training Ship

There are currently 0 purpose built and 7 converted Training Ship listed in Threedecks. Please use the ship search to see them all.

 

Transport

Includes national vessel types

  Corvettes de Charge (France)
  Flûte (France)

There are currently 193 purpose built and 43 converted Transport listed in Threedecks. Please use the ship search to see them all.

 

Troop Ship

There are currently 2 purpose built and 97 converted Troop Ship listed in Threedecks. Please use the ship search to see them all.

 

Turuma

There are currently 13 purpose built Turuma listed in Threedecks. Please use the ship search to see them all.

 

Udema

There are currently 6 purpose built Udema listed in Threedecks. Please use the ship search to see them all.

 

Uitlegger

There are currently 101 purpose built Uitlegger listed in Threedecks. Please use the ship search to see them all.

 

Urca

There are currently 37 purpose built and 6 converted Urca listed in Threedecks. Please use the ship search to see them all.

 

West Indiaman

There are currently 9 purpose built and 3 converted West Indiaman listed in Threedecks. Please use the ship search to see them all.

 

Whaler

There are currently 5 purpose built and 3 converted Whaler listed in Threedecks. Please use the ship search to see them all.

 

Xebec

There are currently 159 purpose built Xebec listed in Threedecks. Please use the ship search to see them all.

 

Yacht

There are currently 204 purpose built and 5 converted Yacht listed in Threedecks. Please use the ship search to see them all.