French ship Terrible (1779)

Colour engraving of Terrible, 18th century
History
France
Name: Terrible
Ordered: 23 October 1778
Builder: Toulon
Laid down: April 1779
Launched: 27 January 1780
Commissioned: May 1780
Decommissioned: 1802
General characteristics
Class and type: Terrible class ship of the line
Displacement: 2500 tonnes
Length: 60.6 m (199 ft)
Beam: 16.2 m (53 ft)
Draught: 8.6 m (28 ft)
Propulsion: Sail
Armament: 110 guns
Armour: Timber

The Terrible was a 110-gun ship of the line of the French Navy, lead ship of her class.

Career

In 1793, she took part in a Franco-Spanish fleet assembled before Cádiz under Admiral d'Estaing, but the end of the American War of Independence occurred before it saw action.[1]

She took part in the Bataille du 13 prairial an 2, where she was dismasted by HMS Royal Sovereign. She later took part in the campaign of Winter 1794-1795, and in the Cruise of Bruix.

She was decommissioned in 1802, condemned in May 1804, and eventually broken up in October.

Sources and references

Notes

    References

    1. ↑ Levot, p.191

    Bibliography

    • Dictionnaire de la flotte de guerre française, Jean-Michel Roche
    • Levot, Prosper (1866). Les gloires maritimes de la France: notices biographiques sur les plus célèbres marins (in French). Bertrand.


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