Cost to build a napoleonic era ship of the line?

[Ayahuasca]

Surprising how many wooden warships 'almost' survived.

This is the 1798 80-gun third rate ship-of-the-line HMS Foudroyant on the beach at Blackpool.

[IanMorewood]

Takes a lot to sink them without trace, of course takes a lot to keep them sea worthy as well.

[plasticpig]

The Hermione looks a real beauty. I hadn't realised that some ships had survived so long.

[Steve_W]

Ayahuasca said:

We had a 92-gun ship-of-the-line until the 1950's when it broke its back on the Swellies in the Menai Strait.

I know a retired Royal Navy Captain who remembers that incident well. In his opinion it was a set up job by deliberately not using sufficient or powerful enough tugs for the tow. Conway (ex Nile) was getting a bit costly to maintain and "anyway, we've got Victory, we don't need to fund two"