Souverain-class ship of the line
Scale model of Protecteur on display at the Musée de la Marine in Paris. This model is a 64-gun, probably mislabeled. | |
Class overview | |
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Name: | Souverain class |
Builders: | Toulon[1] |
Operators: | French Navy |
Completed: | 2 |
General characteristics | |
Type: | Ship of the line |
Displacement: | 1530 tonnes[1] |
Length: | 54.6 m (179 ft 2 in)[1] |
Beam: | 14.3 m (46 ft 11 in) [1] |
Draught: | 7 m (23 ft 0 in)[1] |
Propulsion: | Sail |
Armament: | 74 guns |
Armour: | Timber |
The Souverain class was a type of two 74-gun ships of the line.
Ships
- Builder: Toulon
- Ordered: 25 October 1755
- Launched: December 1755
- Fate: Captured by the British after the Battle of the Nile, 2 August 1798.
- Builder: Toulon
- Ordered: 15 February 1782
- Launched: 19 December 1782
- Fate: Hulked in 1784
Notes, citations, and references
Notes
Citations
References
- Roche, Jean-Michel (2005). Dictionnaire des bâtiments de la flotte de guerre française de Colbert à nos jours 1 1671 - 1870. p. 364. ISBN 978-2-9525917-0-6. OCLC 165892922.
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90-100 gun two-decker | Napoléon class | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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74-gun two-decker | Hector class | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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