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Magnifique-class ship of the line

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Class overview
NameMagnifique
BuildersToulon
Operators French Navy
In service1750 - 1798
Completed3
General characteristics
TypeShip of the line
Displacement2700 tonnes
Tons burthen1455
Length53.6 m (175 ft 10 in)
Beam14 m (45 ft 11 in)
Draught6.6 m (21 ft 8 in)
Depth of hold6.6 m (21 ft 8 in)
PropulsionSail
Complement750 in war, 660 in peace, + 6/12 officers
Armament74 guns
16 x 8-pdr long guns
NotesShips 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

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  1. ^ 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.