ships of the line

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[From ship of the line to battleship]
From the mid-16th century onwards, wooden galleys with sails and oars were replaced by wooden galleons, which were mainly sailing ships. In a fleet battle between galleons in 1588, England, which used gunfire as its main tactic, defeated Spain, which used close-quarters combat with ramming and slashing as its main tactic, which marked the beginning of the creation of ships of the line. Ships of the line are ships that form a line of battle, maintain a certain distance from the enemy, and fire volleys at each other, and the larger ships among them are battleships. …

*Some of the terminology that refers to "ships of the line" is listed below.

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［戦列艦から戦艦へ］
　16世紀半ば以降，帆と櫓櫂（ろかい）の木造ガレー船に代わり帆走主体の木造ガレオン船が出現した。1588年ガレオン船同士の艦隊決戦で，砲戦を主戦法としたイギリスが衝角と切込み中心の接近戦を主戦法としたスペインに勝ったことが戦列艦ships of the lineを生む端緒となった。戦列艦とは戦列を構成し，相手とある距離を保ち一斉射撃をする艦をいい，この中の大型艦が戦艦に相当する。…

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