In 1801, the royal navy consisted of 192 ships of the line } 28 ships of 50 guns } 227 frigates } 181 sloops } Principal force for combat, 760 96 gun vessels } 11 gun barges } 15 bombs } 10 fire ships } 11 store ships 8 yachts 9 tenders 2 advice boats 5 armed transports 13 Dutch hoys 6 river barges 1 convalescent ship 130 hired ships and cutters. --- Total 945 Annual expence, 13,654,013 pounds sterling, equal 60,684,502 dollars, 40 cents; at present, I have not time to ascertain the exact number of men, which however amount to more than one hundred thousand. From 1701 to 1801, the number of vessels have been increased four fold, and the expence twelve fold; the expence is now two hundred and seventy times greater than at the death of King James I, one hundred and eighty-five years ago. STATE OF THE MARITIME POWER OF NATIONS ABOUT THE YEAR 1790 Taken from Arnauld ---------+--------------+------------+------------+-------+------+------- | Ships of | | | Total | Total| Total Nations | the Line | Frigates | Sloops |Vessels|Cannon| Seamen ---------+--------------+------------+------------+-------+------+------- | ships guns | guns | | | | | | | | | | | from to| from to| | | | Spain | 72 112 - 58| 41 |109 | 222 |10,000| 50,000 Portugal | 10 80 - 58| 14 44 - 30| 29 | 53 | 1,500| 1,000 Naples | 10 74 - 50| 10 | 12 | 32 | 1,000| 5,000 Venice | 20 88 - 16| 10 | 58 | 88 | 1,000| 14,000 Ottoman | | | | | | Empire | 30 74 - 50| 50 50 - 10|100 galliots| 180 | 3,000| 50,000 Holland | 44 74 - 56| 43 40 - 24|100 | 187 | 2,300| 15,000 Denmark | 38 90 - 50| 20 42 - 20| 60 chebecks| 118 | 3,000| 12,000 Sweden | 27 74 - 50| 12 38 - 20| 40 gallies | 79 | 3,000| 13,000 Russia | 67 110 - 66| 36 44 - 28|700 various | 803 | 9,000| 21,000 France | 81 118 - 64| 69 40 - 30|141 various | 291 |14,000| 78,000 England |195 100 - 50|210 |256 | 661 |12,000|100,000 ---------+--------------+------------+------------+-------+------+------- 2714 59,800 359,000