The first-rate men-of-war were the biggest ships in the world from the early seventeenth century until the iron merchantmen of the nineteenth century.
Esokuqala isantya sabantu bomlo yaba sesona sincinci kwiinqanawa zomhlaba phambi konyaka weshumi elinesixhenxe lekulungwane kude kube lixesha labathengisi bentombi zeshumi elinesithoba lenkulungwane.