Citoyen-class ship of the line
Class overview | |
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Name | Citoyen |
Builders | , Brest |
Operators | French Navy |
Completed | 4 |
General characteristics | |
Type | Ship of the line |
Tonnage | 1500 tonnes |
Displacement | 3000 tonnes |
Length | 169½ French feet[1] (55.06 metres) |
Beam | 43 French feet (13.97 metres) |
Draught | 21 French feet (6.82 metres) |
Depth of hold | 20¾ French feet (6.74 metres) |
Propulsion | Sail |
Complement | 715 men in wartime, 650 men in peacetime; + 6/12 officers |
Armament |
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Armour | Timber |
Notes | Ships in class include: Citoyen, Conquérant, Palmier, |
The Citoyen class consisted of four 74-gun ships of the line all built at Brest Naval Dockyard to a design by . The first ship (Citoyen, originally to have been named Cimeterre) was newly built there from 1761 to 1764, and the other three were rebuilt to her design from earlier ships.
- Built at: Brest
- Keel laid: July 1761
- Launched: 27 August 1764
- Completed: December 1764
- Fate: decommissioned in 1783 and taken to pieces in 1792
- Originally built at: Toulon
- Ordered: 5 March 1743
- Launched: 9 March 1746
- Rebuilt: from January 1765 at Brest to the draught of the Citoyen, re-launched 29 November 1765 and completed in December 1765
- Fate: Condemned in May 1796 but put back into service in March 1798, captured by the British on 2 August 1798 at the Battle of the Nile, broken up in Plymouth in January 1803
- Originally built at: Brest
- Keel laid: November 1750
- Launched: 21 July 1752
- Rebuilt: from 23 May 1766 at Brest to the draught of the Citoyen, re-launched in December 1766 and completed in the same month
- Fate: Rebuilt again at Brest in 1776. Abandoned and foundered off Bermuda in the Atlantic Ocean on 24 October 1782
- Originally built at: Brest (as a 64-gun ship)
- Keel laid: 1750
- Launched: 15 December 1752
- Rebuilt at: from April 1767 at Brest to the draught of the Citoyen, re-launched on 5 October 1767 and completed in April 1768
- Fate: Rebuilt again at Brest in 1774. Condemned in August 1783, sold 1784
Sources and references[]
- Demerliac, Alain (1995). La Marine de Louis XV - Nomenclature des navires francais de 1715 à 1774. p. 39-41. ISBN 2-906381-19-5.
- Winfield, Rif and Roberts, Stephen S., French Warships in the Age of Sail 1626-1786: Design, Construction, Careers and Fates. (Seaforth Publishing, 2017) ISBN 978-1-4738-9351-1.
- ^ Note that the French (pre-metric) foot was 6.575% longer than the equivalent British unit of measurement of the same name.
- ^ Note that the French (pre-metric) pound was about 7.9% heavier than the equivalent British unit of measurement of the same name. Thus the French 36-pounder equated to about 38 lb 13.6 oz in British measurement.
Categories:
- Citoyen-class ships of the line
- 74-gun ship of the line classes
- Ship of the line classes from France