French ship Duc de Bourgogne (1752)
Launching of the Duc de Bourgogne | |
History | |
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Name: | Duc de Bourgogne |
Namesake: | Duke of Burgundy |
Builder: | Rochefort |
Laid down: | January 1749 |
Launched: | 20 October 1751 |
Completed: | December 1752 |
Renamed: |
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Fate: | Broken up in 1856 |
General characteristics | |
Displacement: | 3,400 tons |
Tons burthen: | 1,800 tons (port) |
Length: | 56.52 m (185.4 ft) |
Beam: | 14.46 m (47.4 ft) |
Draught: | 7.15 m (23.5 ft) |
Depth of hold: | 7.31 m (24.0 ft) |
Propulsion: | sail |
Sail plan: | full rigged |
Complement: | 850, +8/14 officers |
Armament: |
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The Duc de Bourgogne was an 80-gun ship of the line of the French Navy.
She was refitted twice, in and 1761 and 1779, having her hull coppered.
Under Chef d'Escadre Charles-Henri-Louis Arsac de Ternay, she was the flagship of the expeditionary corps that left on 2 May 1780 for the American war of Independence, and carried the Count of Rochambeau.
She took part in the Battle of the Saintes, where she collided with Bourgogne.[1]
In 1792, she was renamed Peuple, and Caton in 1794.
She was condemned in February 1798 at Brest, and eventually broken up in January 1800.[2]
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