razee
Sign in to saveAlso known as razée, razeed
thumb|1807 painting of HMS Anson (1781)|HMS Anson as a razee by [[Thomas Luny]]
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- Seventeenth century
- Eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries
- Royal Navy
- French razée warships (Revolutionary War conversions)
- United States razee warship
- Late nineteenth century
- References
thumb|1807 painting of HMS Anson (1781)|HMS Anson as a razee by [[Thomas Luny]]
A razee or razée is a sailing ship that has been cut down (razeed) to reduce the number of decks. The word is derived from the French vaisseau rasé, meaning a razed (in the sense of shaved down) ship.
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