French Ship Vendome (1651)
| History | |
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| Name: | Vendôme |
| Namesake: | César de Bourbon, Duc de Vendôme |
| Owner: | French Royal Navy |
| Builder: | Laurent Hubac, in Brest Dockyard |
| Laid down: | 1647 |
| Launched: | 1651 |
| Completed: | 1654 |
| Out of service: | November 1699 |
| Renamed: | Victorieux on 24 June 1671 |
| Struck: | Taken to pieces in 1679 |
| General characteristics | |
| Class and type: | ship of the line |
| Tonnage: | 1,450 tons |
| Length: | 150 French feet[1] |
| Beam: | 40 French feet |
| Draught: | 17½ French feet |
| Depth of hold: | 17½ French feet |
| Decks: | 3 gun decks |
| Complement: | 600 (later 550), +9 officers |
| Armament: |
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| Armour: | Timber |
The Vendôme was a 72-gun ship of the line of the French Royal Navy, the smallest ship to be classed as a First Rank ship in the French Navy. She was built at Brest Dockyard, designed and constructed by Laurent Hubac. She was nominally a three-decker, but in practice the upper deck was divided into armed sections aft and forward of the unarmed waist, making the upper deck equivalent to a quarterdeck and forecastle. Her name was altered to Victorieux on 24 June 1671, but this was not put into practice as she was condemned on 17 July 1671 and became a careening hulk at Brest until condemned in 1679.
Sources and references
- Roche, Jean-Michel (2005). Dictionnaire des bâtiments de la flotte de guerre française de Colbert à nos jours 1 1671 - 1870. p. 223. ISBN 978-2-9525917-0-6. OCLC 165892922.
- Nomenclature des Vaisseaux du Roi-Soleil de 1661 a 1715. Alain Demerliac (Editions Omega, Nice – various dates).
- The Sun King's Vessels (2015) - Jean-Claude Lemineur; English translation by François Fougerat. Editions ANCRE. ISBN 978-2903179885
- Winfield, Rif and Roberts, Stephen (2017) French Warships in the Age of Sail 1626-1786: Design, Construction, Careers and Fates. Seaforth Publishing. ISBN 978-1-4738-9351-1.
- ↑ The (pre-metric) French foot was 6.575% longer than the equivalent English foot.
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