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French ship Aigle (1750)

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A 50-gun ship of a similar type to the Aigle.

Aigle was a 50-gun ship of the line of the French Navy. Built at Rochefort by P. Morineau between 1748 and 1751, she was launched in 1750.

The ship was wrecked and burnt in the Strait of Belle Isle in 1765.

Citations

  1. Roche p.26
  2. Winfield & Roberts p.153

References

  • Roche, Jean-Michel (2005). Dictionnaire des bâtiments de la flotte de guerre française de Colbert à nos jours 1 1671–1870. ISBN 978-2-9525917-0-6. OCLC 165892922.
  • Winfield, Rif; Roberts, Stephen S. (2017). French warships in the age of sail, 1626-1786: design, construction, careers and fates. Barnsley, South Yorkshire: Seaforth Publishing. ISBN 9781473893511.
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