English-Finnish translations for two-decker

Definition of two-decker

  • A sail warship, which carried her guns on two fully-armed decks. Usually additional guns were carried on the upper works but this was not a continuous battery so was not counted. Two-deckers ranged all the way from the small 40-gun fourth-rate up to 80- or even 90-gun ships, with the third-rate or "seventy-four" being the archetype

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