To be blunt, I hate to see an individual with your unlimited potential languishing as second officer on a third-rate ship.

HMS Warrior was a 74-gun third-rate ship of the line launched in 1781.

HMS Rupert of 1666 was a third-rate ship of the line which served in the navy for 103 years.

Just a second-rate Space Ranger flying around in some third-rate ship.

The first Blake, launched in 1808, was a 74-gun third-rate ship of the line.

Intrépide was a 74-gun third-rate ship of the line of the French navy.

Second master was a rating introduced into the Royal Navy in 1753 that indicated a deputy master on third-rate ships of the line or larger.

HMS Minotaur was a 74-gun third-rate ship of the line launched in 1793.

I have been given other, more important objectives than ensuring a third-rate ship with its fifth-rate crew stay loyal to the Organization.

So, while first rates and second rates were both larger and more powerful, the third-rate ships were in a real sense the optimal configuration.