Great Ship Henry VIII Mary Rose Grâce à Dieu Grace Dieu Navy
The first movement towards a rating system may be seen in the 15th century and the first half of the 16th century, when the largest carracks in the Navy (such as Mary Rose, the Henri Grâce à Dieu and Grace Dieu) were denoted "Great Ships". This was only on the basis of their size and not weight, crew or number of guns. When these carracks developed into galleons later in the 16th century, "Great Ship" was used to formally delineate the Navy's largest ships from all the rest. The formal system of dividing up the Navy's combatant warships into six groups of "Rates", however, only originated in the very early part of the Stuart Era, with the first lists of such categorisation appearing around 1604. At this time the combatant ships of the "Navy Royal" (the term Royal Navy was only introduced after the Restoration of King Charles II in 1660) were divided up according to the number of men required to man them at sea ( the size of the crew) into four groups - Royal Ships (the largest ships in the previous "Great Ships" grouping), Great Ships (the rest of the ships in the previous "Great Ships" grouping), Middling Ships and Small Ships. By the early years of King Charles I's reign, these four groups had been renamed to a numerical sequence. The Royal Ships were now graded as First Rank, the Great Ships as Second Rank, the Middling Ships as Third Rank, and the Small Ships as Fourth Rank. Soon afterwards the structure was again modified, with the term Rank now being replaced by Rate, and the former Small Ships now being sub-divided into Fourth, Fifth and Sixth Rates. The earliest rating was based not on the number of guns, but on the established complement (number of men). This first classıficatıon took place ın 1626, and was substantially altered in late 1653 as the complements of individual shıps were raised. From about 1660 the classification moved from one based on the number of men to one based on the number of carriage guns carried by a ship.
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