HMS Belleisle (1761)

History
France
Name: Belleisle
Launched: 1760
Captured: 3 April 1761, by Royal Navy
Great Britain
Name: HMS Belleisle
Acquired: 3 April 1761
Fate: Sold, 1819
General characteristics [1]
Class and type: 64-gun Third Rate ship of the line
Tons burthen: 1494​26⁄94 (bm)
Length: 168 ft 5 1⁄2 in (51.3 m) (gundeck)
Beam: 45 ft 0 1⁄2 in (13.7 m)
Depth of hold: 20 ft 7 in (6.27 m)
Propulsion: Sails
Sail plan: Full rigged ship
Armament: 64 guns of various weights of shot

Belleisle was a 64-gun ship of the line of the French Navy, launched in 1760.

She was captured by the Royal Navy on 3 April 1761, and commissioned as the Third Rate HMS Belleisle.

Fate

Belleisle was placed on harbour service in 1784, and was sold out of the navy in 1819.

Notes

  1. ↑ Lavery, Ships of the Line, vol.1, p. 178.

References

  • Lavery, Brian (2003) The Ship of the Line – Volume 1: The development of the battlefleet 1650–1850. Conway Maritime Press. ISBN 0-85177-252-8.


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