Ajax-class ship of the line

The Ajax-class ships of the line were a class of two 74-gun third rates of the Royal Navy. They were grouped in with the large class of 74s, as they carried 24 pdrs on their upper gun decks, rather than the 18 pdrs of the middling and common class 74s. The design of the Ajax-class was a lengthened version of the HMS Invincible (1765).

Ships

 * HMS Kent (1798)
 * Builder: Perry, Blackwall Yard
 * Ordered: 10 June 1795
 * Launched: 17 January 1798
 * Fate: Broken up, 1881


 * HMS Ajax (1798)
 * Builder: Randall, Rotherhithe
 * Ordered: 10 June 1795
 * Launched: 3 March 1798
 * Fate: Accidentally burnt, 1807