Found something interesting...

[Diamondback]

1. Which Royal Sovereign? and 2. Why do you think I always start tearing into things with the Royal Navy? Their docs are the best preserved from the time, French runner-up (largely thanks to wholesale capture by the RN LOL), Spanish seem to have just let the shipwrights do as they darn well pleased.

[Nightmoss]

1. Which Royal Sovereign? and 2. Why do you think I always start tearing into things with the Royal Navy? Their docs are the best preserved from the time, French runner-up (largely thanks to wholesale capture by the RN LOL), Spanish seem to have just let the shipwrights do as they darn well pleased.

1786: http://collections.rmg.co.uk/collect...cts/79792.html

And I even found one for the captured French ship 'Monarch". Again, a very nice site.

[csadn]

1. Which Royal Sovereign? and 2. Why do you think I always start tearing into things with the Royal Navy? Their docs are the best preserved from the time,

Plus, the British occasionally "took off" the lines of acquired foreign ships (tho' this occasionally led to reproduction errors); so some foreign ships which otherwise might have been lost were preserved.