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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