French ship Majestueux (1780)

For other ships with the same name, see French ship Majestueux and French ship Républicain.
Terrible, the sister ship of Majestueux
History
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NameMajestueux
Namesake"Majestuous"
Ordered20 April 1780
BuilderToulon
Laid down5 July 1780
Launched17 November 1780
Commissioned4 February 1781
FateBroken up 1808
General characteristics
Class & typeTerrible-class ship of the line
Displacement2,500 tonnes
Length60.6 m (198 ft 10 in)
Beam16.2 m (53 ft 2 in)
Draught8.6 m (28 ft 3 in)
PropulsionSail
Armament110 guns

Majestueux was a 110-gun Terrible class ship of the line of the French Navy.

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

  1. ^ 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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