Bordelois class ship of the line

Class overview
Name:	Bordelois
Builders:	Bordeaux[1]
Operators:	French Navy  Royal Navy  Ottoman Navy
Succeeded by:	Duc de Duras class
Planned:	4
Completed:	4
General characteristics
Displacement:	1100 tonnes[1]
Length:	50.7 metres[1]
Beam:	13.8 metres[1]
Draught:	6.3 metres[1]
Propulsion:	Sail, full rigged ship
Complement:	560 men[1]
Armament:	56 guns: Main deck: 24 × 36-pounder long guns Upper deck: 26 × 18-pounder long guns Forecastle and sterncastle: 6 × 8-pounder long guns[1]
Armour:	Timber

The Bordelois class was a type of 56-gun ship of the line, designed by Antoine Groignard. The ships were funded by don des vaisseaux donations and rushed into production for the Seven Years' War, but were completed too late to take part in the conflict. Flamand would later have a distinguished career during the War of American Independence.

Ships in class

• Bordelois

Builder: Bordeaux shipyard

Ordered:

Laid down: January 1762

Launched:

Completed:

Fate: Captured by the Royal Navy, recommissioned as HMS Artois

• Ferme

Builder: Bordeaux shipyard

Ordered:

Laid down:

Launched:

Completed:

Fate: Sold to the Ottoman Navy

• Utile

Builder: Bordeaux shipyard

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Laid down:

Launched:

Completed:

Fate:

• Flamand

Builder: Bordeaux shipyard

Ordered:

Laid down:

Launched:

Completed:

Fate:

Notes

1. Roche, Jean-Michel (2005). Dictionnaire des bâtiments de la flotte de guerre française de Colbert à nos jours, 1671 - 1870. Group Retozel-Maury Millau. p. 453. ISBN 978-2-9525917-0-6. OCLC 165892922.