Magnifique-class ship of the line

Class overview

Name	Magnifique
Builders	Toulon
Operators	French Navy
In service	1750 - 1798
Completed	3
General characteristics
Type	Ship of the line
Displacement	2700 tonnes
Tons burthen	1455
Length	53.6 m (175 ft 10 in)
Beam	14 m (45 ft 11 in)
Draught	6.6 m (21 ft 8 in)
Depth of hold	6.6 m (21 ft 8 in)
Propulsion	Sail
Complement	750 in war, 660 in peace, + 6/12 officers
Armament	74 guns 16 x 8-pdr long guns
Notes	Ships in class include: Magnifique, Entreprenant, Guerrier

The Magnifique class was a class of three 74-gun ships of the line, designed and built by Jacques-Luc Coulomb.

Builder: Brest Dockyard

Laid down: 1747

Launched: 7 March 1750

Completed July 1750

Fate: 10 August 1782, Grounded on sandbar off Lovells Island, Boston, MA, USA

Builder: Brest Dockyard

Laid down: 1750

Launched: 19 October 1751

Completed: December 1752

Fate: Set on fire by British mortar attack at Louisbourg on 21 July 1758 and blew up.

Builder: Toulon

Ordered: 18 September 1750

Laid down: October 1750

Launched: 7 September 1753

Completed: early 1754.

Fate: Captured by the British at the Battle of the Nile, 2 August 1798, and then burnt.

References

Demerliac, Alain (2004). La Marine de Louis XVI: Nomenclature des Navires Français de 1774 à 1792 (in French). Éditions Ancre. ISBN 2-906381-23-3.
Lacour-Gayet, Georges (1910). La marine militaire de la France sous le règne de Louis XVI. Paris: Honoré Champion.
Roche, Jean-Michel (2005). Dictionnaire des bâtiments de la flotte de guerre française de Colbert à nos jours, 1671 - 1870. Group Retozel-Maury Millau. pp. 325–6. 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. Seaforth. ISBN 978-1-4738-9351-1.

French Navy ship of the line classes timeline, 1750s–1900s