NOTES TO ABSTRACT No. 14

a.   Teak-built Indiamen.

b.   The Salsette (named Pitt for a short time, then restored to her former name), built of teak at the East-India Company's yard at Bombay.

c.   Teak-built; had been an Indiaman.

d.   The same.

e.   The Bermuda and Indian; built at the island of Bermuda, of the pencil-cedar. See vol. ii., p. 396, note S*

f.   Built at Bermuda, also of cedar. These vessels averaged 111 tons, and were a slight improvement upon those built at the same island in the preceding year, and remarked upon at vol. iii., p. 376, note i.

g.   Number of hired vessels about 94.

NOTES TO ABSTRACT No. 15.

a.   The Clyde; built of fir, after the fir-frigate of the same name launched in 1796. See vol. ii., p. 395, note A*.

b.   The Alexandria, of fir also, and the last-built frigate of this class.

c.   A new class; resembling in size and construction the British-built of the K class, but registered as " 22-gun ships," and too generally called so, to be otherwise classed in these Abstracts. The first establishment of the class was 22 long nines on the main deck, and eight 24-pounder carronades on the quarterdeck and forecastle; but before any of the ships were launched, the establishment was altered to twenty-two 32-pounder carronades, eight 18-pounder carronades, and two long sixes, total 32 guns. The Comus and Laurel, it is believed, were the only ships armed according to the original plan, and the first was afterwards allowed two additional long sixes for her forecastle. Of all the classes in the British navy, the 22-gun class exhibits the greatest difference between the rated and the mounted force of its ships.

d.   In the year 1805, 18 more of these miserable " men of war" were ordered to be built; six of them at Bermuda, the remainder in ports of England. See vol. iii., p. 376.

e.   Number of hired vessels about 80.

THE END OF VOL. IV.

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