Saint-Esprit-class ship of the line
 Fight of the Ça Ira off Noli on 14 March 1795 | |
| Class overview | |
|---|---|
| Name: | Saint-Esprit |
| Succeeded by: | Tonnant class ship |
| General characteristics | |
| Type: | ship of the line |
| Displacement: | 1754 tonnes |
| Length: | 59.8 metres |
| Beam: | 14.9 metres |
| Draught: | 7.5 metres |
| Speed: | Sail |
| Armament: |
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| Armour: | Timber |
| Notes: | Ships in class include: Couronne, Languedoc, Saint-Esprit |
The Saint-Esprit group was a type of three 80-gun ships of the line of the French Navy. They did not constitute a single class, as each was built to a separate design, but they each carried a standard ordnance amounting to 80 guns.
- Saint-Esprit. Renamed Scipion.
- Builder: Brest
- Ordered: 11 January 1762
- Launched: 12 October 1765
- Fate: Lost in storm on 26 january 1795
- Builder: Arsenal of Brest
- Ordered:
- Launched: May 1768
- Fate: Accidentally burnt at Brest in 1781. A replacement, Couronne was constructed from the salvaged remains. Renamed Ça Ira in 1792, this ship was captured by Britain on 14 March 1795, destroyed in an accidental fire on 11 April 1796
- Languedoc Renamed Anti-fédéraliste and Victoire
- Builder: Toulon
- Ordered:
- Launched: 15 May 1766
- Fate: Broken up in 1799 in Brest
| French Navy ships classes timeline, 1750s–1850s — next » | ||||||||||||||||||||||
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| 50 | 55 | 60 | 65 | 70 | 75 | 80 | 85 | 90 | 95 | 00 | 05 | 10 | 15 | 20 | 25 | 30 | 35 | 40 | 45 | |||
| 110-120 gun three-decker | Sans-Pareil class | Océan class | ||||||||||||||||||||
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| Terrible class | Commerce de Paris class | |||||||||||||||||||||
| 90-100 gun two-decker | Suffren class | |||||||||||||||||||||
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| 80-gun two-decker | Saint-Esprit class | |||||||||||||||||||||
| Deux Frères | Bucentaure class | |||||||||||||||||||||
| Tonnant class | ||||||||||||||||||||||
| 74-gun two-decker | Hector class | |||||||||||||||||||||
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| Centaure class | ||||||||||||||||||||||
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