French ship Majestueux (1781)
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| Name | Majestueux |
| Namesake | "Majestuous" |
| Ordered | 20 April 1780 |
| Builder | Toulon |
| Laid down | 5 July 1780 |
| Launched | 17 November 1780 |
| Commissioned | 4 February 1781 |
| Fate | Broken up 1808 |
| General characteristics | |
| Class and type | Terrible-class ship of the line |
| Displacement | 2,500 tonnes |
| Length | 60.6 m (198 ft 10 in) |
| Beam | 16.2 m (53 ft 2 in) |
| Draught | 8.6 m (28 ft 3 in) |
| Propulsion | Sail |
| Armament | 110 guns |
Majestueux was a 110-gun ship of the line of the French Navy, of the Terrible class.
She was renamed Républicain in 1797. In 1807, she was decommissioned and used as a transport.
The ship was broken up in 1808.[1]
Citations
[edit]- ^ Winfield & Roberts p.74
References
[edit]- Roche, Jean-Michel (2005). Dictionnaire des bâtiments de la flotte de guerre française de Colbert à nos jours 1 1671–1870. p. 293. ISBN 978-2-9525917-0-6. OCLC 165892922.
- Winfield, Rif; Roberts, Stephen S. (2017). French warships in the age of sail, 1626-1786: design, construction, careers and fates. Barnsley, South Yorkshire: Seaforth Publishing. ISBN 9781473893511.
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