History | |
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France | |
Name | Majestueux |
Namesake | "Majestuous" |
Ordered | 20 April 1780 |
Builder | Toulon |
Laid down | 5 July 1780 |
Launched | 17 November 1780 |
Commissioned | 4 February 1781 |
Fate | Broken up 1808 |
General characteristics | |
Class and type | Terrible class ship of the line |
Displacement | 2500 tonnes |
Length | 60.6 m (199 ft) |
Beam | 16.2 m (53 ft) |
Draught | 8.6 m (28 ft) |
Propulsion | Sail |
Armament | 110 guns |
Armour | Timber |
The Majestueux was a 110-gun ship of the line of the French Navy, of the Terrible class.
She was renamed Républicain in 1797. In 1807, she was decommissioned and used as a transport.
The ship was broken up in 1808.[1]
Citations
- ↑ Winfield & Roberts p.74
References
- Roche, Jean-Michel (2005). Dictionnaire des bâtiments de la flotte de guerre française de Colbert à nos jours 1 1671–1870. p. 293. 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. Barnsley, South Yorkshire: Seaforth Publishing. ISBN 9781473893511.
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