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Three Ship Navy Legacy of the U.S.’s First Ship-of-the-Line
The French scrapped the American-built America and a new 74-gun Temaire-class ship-of-the-line was built and named America. It had twenty-eight 36-pounders on the lower gundeck, twenty 18-pounders on the upper gun deck, and sixteen 8-pounders and four 36-pounder carronades on the forecastle and upper deck.
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