Magnifique-class ship of the line
| Class overview | |
|---|---|
| Name | Magnifique |
| Builders | Toulon |
| Operators |  French Navy |
| In service | 1750 - 1798 |
| Completed | 3 |
| General characteristics | |
| Type | Ship of the line |
| Displacement | 2700 tonnes |
| Tons burthen | 1455 |
| Length | 53.6 m (175 ft 10 in) |
| Beam | 14 m (45 ft 11 in) |
| Draught | 6.6 m (21 ft 8 in) |
| Depth of hold | 6.6 m (21 ft 8 in) |
| Propulsion | Sail |
| Complement | 750 in war, 660 in peace, + 6/12 officers |
| Armament | 74 guns
|
| Notes | Ships in class include: Magnifique, Entreprenant, Guerrier |
The Magnifique class was a class of three 74-gun ships of the line, designed and built by Jacques-Luc Coulomb.[1]
- Builder: Brest Dockyard
- Laid down: 1747
- Launched: 7 March 1750
- Completed July 1750
- Fate: 10 August 1782, Grounded on sandbar off Lovells Island, Boston, MA, USA
- Builder: Brest Dockyard
- Laid down: 1750
- Launched: 19 October 1751
- Completed: December 1752
- Fate: Set on fire by British mortar attack at Louisbourg on 21 July 1758 and blew up.
- Builder: Toulon
- Ordered: 18 September 1750
- Laid down: October 1750
- Launched: 7 September 1753
- Completed: early 1754.
- Fate: Captured by the British at the Battle of the Nile, 2 August 1798, and then burnt.
References
[edit]- ^ Winfield & Roberts, p. 102
- Demerliac, Alain (2004). La Marine de Louis XVI: Nomenclature des Navires Français de 1774 à 1792 (in French). Éditions Ancre. ISBN 2-906381-23-3.
- Lacour-Gayet, Georges (1910). La marine militaire de la France sous le règne de Louis XVI. Paris: Honoré Champion.
- Roche, Jean-Michel (2005). Dictionnaire des bâtiments de la flotte de guerre française de Colbert à nos jours, 1671 - 1870. Group Retozel-Maury Millau. pp. 325–6. 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. Seaforth. ISBN 978-1-4738-9351-1.