In 1701 the first of the eighteenth-century first-rates, the Royal Sovereign, was built by Fisher Harding.
Ngonyaka wekhulu elinye linamakhulu asixhenxe ananye, ekuqaleni kwishumi elisibhozo lenkulungwane esokuqala isantya, ubukumkani bokuqala, benziwa ngumphathi mlobi.