Ajax-class ship of the line
# 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-pounders on their upper gun decks, rather than the 18-pounders of the middling and common class 74s. The design of the Ajax class was a lengthened (by 11 ft (3.4 m)) version of the Valiant class, the lines of which were taken from the French Invincible, captured in 1747.

## Ships

* HMS Kent

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

    Builder: Randall, Rotherhithe
    Ordered: 10 June 1795
    Launched: 3 March 1798
    Fate: Accidentally burnt, 1807
