French ship Courageux

Several ships of the French Navy have borne the name Courageux or Courageuse:

  • Courageux (1671), a 42-gun ship, broken up in 1673.
  • Courageux (1673), an 80-gun ship, renamed Magnanime in 1679. She was sunk during a battle in 1705.
  • Courageux (1679), a 56-gun ship, deleted from Navy lists in 1704.
  • Courageux (1753), a 74-gun ship, captured in 1761 and taken into service as HMS Courageux. She was wrecked on the coast of Morocco in 1796.
  • Courageuse (1778), a 32-gun frigate of the Concorde class, launched in 1778, captured by the British in 1798, and last listed in 1802-3.
  • Courageux was a brigantine of ten 4-pounder guns that the French navy acquired at Toulon in April 1798. She was struck at Toulon in 1800,[1] but that may have occurred after her capture at Malta on 29 March 1800.[2]
  • Courageux (1806), a 74-gun Courageux-class ship of the line. She was broken up in 1831.

Citations and references

  1. ↑ Winfield and Roberts (2015), p.297.
  2. ↑ "No. 15809". The London Gazette. 21 May 1805. p. 694.

References

  • Winfield, Rif & Stephen S Roberts (2015) French Warships in the Age of Sail 1786 - 1861: Design Construction, Careers and Fates. (Seaforth Publishing). ISBN 9781848322042
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