French ship Neptune (1778)

	model ship, Saint-Remi museum
History
France
Name:	Neptune
General characteristics
Displacement:	1,500 tonnes
Length:	54.7 m (179 ft)
Beam:	14.3 m (47 ft)
Draught:	6.7 m (22 ft)
Armament:	74 guns:; Lower gundeck: 28 × 36-pounder long guns; Upper gundeck: 30 × 24-pounder long guns; Forecastle and Quarter deck:; 16 × 8-pounder long guns; 4 × 36-pounder carronades;
Armour:	Timber

Neptune was a 74-gun ship of the line of the French Navy.

Under Captain de Latouche, she captured a 30-gun British privateer named Hercules on 28 October 1778.

In 1782, she was part of de Grasse's squadron. Neptune engaged HMS Repulse and HMS Canada in the Battle of the Saintes.

Decommissioned, she was reactivated to take part in the Bataille du 13 prairial an 2 and in the Croisière du Grand Hiver. She ran aground and was destroyed on 28 December 1794, with the loss of 50.

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