Five years ago Joe Sillett picked up a bat which had been given the Black and Decker treatment in his father's garage to remove its woodworm-infested rough edges.
A sail warship, which carried her guns on two fully-armed decks. Usually additional guns were carried on the upper works (forecastle and quarterdeck) but this was not a continuous battery so were 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