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Sixth-rate - This is one of six ratings (1st, 2nd, 3rd, 4th, 5th, 6th) in the rating system of the Royal Navy.
Sixth-rate was the designation used by the Royal Navy for small warships mounting between 22 and 28 nine-pounder guns on a single deck, sometimes with guns on the upper works and sometimes without. Sixth-rate ships crewed about 150 and measured between 450 and 550 tons. Usually sixth-rates were small frigates. Some larger ship-rigged, flush-decked vessels, were rated, which meant they were large enough to rate a Post-Captain in command, instead of a Lieutenant or Commander. In later years sixth-rate frigates were sometimes called "jackass frigates", as they were really not quite big enough for proper frigate duties. - For ships smaller than sixth-rate, see main article rating system of the Royal Navy.
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