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>>I found the missing Caruana page. He discusses four >>groups of ships. He says the first consisted of >><i>Torbay</i>; the second of <i>Namur</i> and >><i>Union</i>, launched in 1756; the third of >><i>Blenheim, Queen</i> and <i>Sandwich</i>; and the >>fourth of "all the 90-gun ships launched during the >>war." <i>Princess Royal</i> isn't in the first three >>groups but was launched in 1773, although not >>completed until 1777. She must be in the last group >>by default. Caruana says that "all started the war >>... with 28 32-pdrs ... on the lower deck, 30 18-pdrs >>... on the middle deck, 30 12-pdrs ... on the upper >>deck, and two 9-pdrs ... on the forecastle" except for >><i>London</i>, which does not concern us here. That >>is, they all started the war as 90's. Caruana goes on >>to say, "by the end of the war, <i>Formidable, Prince >>George, Duke,</i> and <i>Barfleur</i> had all become >>90 98-gun ships." That would seem to indicate that >><i>Princess Royal</i> was a 90 throughout the war. >>(By the time Beatson published, <i>Princess Royal</i> >>might indeed have been a 98, so he might have >>"corrected" her rating in his 1781 list of the Jamaica >>squadron.) >> >>Full citation: Adrian Caruana, <i>the History of >>English Sea Ordnance, 1523–1875,</i>, Vol. II, >><i>1715–1875: The Age of the System</i> (Rotherfield, >>England: Jean Boudriot Publications, 1997), p. 235. > >In "The British Warships in the Age of Sail. >1714-1792" by Rif Winfield, > >HMS Pricess Royal appers in 1781 rated as 98. > >Let's see... > >In general, for 90' ships, from 1778 the rating grew >to 98 guns with the addition of 8 guns in QD. In 1782 >carronades were also added to the Second Rate, but >without being included in the number of guns at which >each ship was rated. > >HMS Princess Royal was a unit from HMS Barfleur class >with LD, 28x32pdrs; MD, 30x18pdrs; UD, 30x12pdrs; QD, >none (8x6pdrs from 1778); FC, 2x9pdrs. All 6 and 9 >punders replaced by short 12pdrs by AO 3/06/1790. 750 >Men (738 from 1794). > >About the ship, the text says that she was fitted an >coppered at Chatham in 1782's May. But i think could >be possible that as the rest of her class from 1778 he >up her rating up to 98. > >Then, in theory, she must carry 98guns in 1781.

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