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 ) version of the , the lines of which were taken from the French , captured in 1747.Winfield, p. 39
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Builder: Perry, Blackwall Yard Ordered: 10 June 1795 Launched: 17 January 1798 Fate: Broken up, 1881
Builder: Randall, Rotherhithe Ordered: 10 June 1795 Launched: 3 March 1798 Fate: Accidentally burnt, 1807
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