Souverain-class ship of the line

Class overview
Scale model of Protecteur on display at the Musée de la Marine in Paris. This model is a 64-gun, probably mislabeled.
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

Souverain

Builder: Toulon

Ordered: 25 October 1755

Launched: December 1755

Fate: Captured by the British after the Battle of the Nile, 2 August 1798.

Protecteur^[1]

Builder: Toulon

Ordered: 15 February 1782

Launched: 19 December 1782

Fate: Hulked in 1784

Notes, citations, and references

Notes

Citations

1 2 3 4 5 6 Roche, vol.1, p.364

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.

French Navy ship of the line classes timeline, 1750s–1900s — next »
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130 gun three-decker																						Bretagne
110-120 gun three-decker		Sans-Pareil class						Océan class
				Bretagne																Valmy
							Terrible class						Commerce de Paris class
90-100 gun two-decker																					Napoléon class
																Suffren class
																		Hercule class
80-gun two-decker			Saint-Esprit class
								Deux Frères				Bucentaure class
									Tonnant class
74-gun two-decker	Hector class
	Magnifique class
		Souverain class
		Diadème class
				Citoyen class
				Marseillois
					César class
							Magnanime class
							Annibal class
							Scipion class
							Pégase class
							Téméraire class
								Centaure class

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