Age-of-sail classes as evolving production batches

Did age-of-sail navies have a mass-produced class comparable to later large cruiser programs?

Many sailing warships belonged to evolving design families, with nominally new classes functioning as successive batches modified through experience.

A successful core design could produce successive groups of sailing warships. Later builders modified that design using experience from earlier ships. Some nominally separate classes therefore resembled successive batches more than wholly new designs. Frigates and third rates could be understood through these evolving families.