Re-rating captured Danish ships for Royal Navy service

British naval architects altered the captured Danish ships to suit Royal Navy service. The spoken comparison gives Christian VII as 84 guns before its reduction to 80. Gambier took third rates because Denmark had no first rates of its own. A Danish 76-gun ship is judged to offer little advantage over a British 74, which explains the preference for re-rating such prizes to 74 guns. Arveprinds Frederich, called Heir Apparent Frederick in the discussion, supplies the reverse example: an increase to 74 guns. Adding guns was more difficult than removing them because the extra weight created naval-architecture problems.