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'A FIRST RATE IN A LIGHT BREEZE WITH A VIEW OF DOVER'. No 3 from a set of thirty one engravings printed for
[Cleveley, John].
Published by Carrington Bowles, London 1770 1770
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Condition: Fine. 16 x 27 cm. Full colour copper engraving., laid on board. 'First rate' was the designation used by the Royal Navy for its largest ships of the line, equivalent to the 'super-dreadnought' of more recent times. By the end of the eighteenth century, a 'first-rate' routinely carried 100 guns and more than 850 crew,…