second-rate🔊

(historical) Of a {{w|Royal Navy}} ship of the line in the {{w|Napoleonic Era}}: having 80{{ndash}}98 guns across three gun decks, a complement of 700{{ndash}}750, and weighing approximately 2,200 tons burthen.

(idiomatic) Of mediocre quality; not first-rate. +

(historical) A second-rate ship of the line.