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HMS Royal George, right, shown fictitiously at the launch of HMS Cambridge in 1755. The Portuguese pioneered the use of great guns at sea, and in a battle off the Malabar Coast in 1501, Vasco da Gama, using line-ahead, stand-off gunfire tactics, destroyed a great Arab sailing dhow fleet using such artillery-without the loss of […]

Royal Navy 74. HMS Bellona and HMS Courageux arriving at Spithead by Geoff Hunt. Courageux was a heavy 74-gun ship of the line of the French Navy, launched in 1753. She was captured by the Royal Navy in 1761 and taken into service as HMS Courageux. HMS Bellona was a 74-gun Bellona-class third-rate ship of […]