Magnanime-class ship of the line

Class overview

Name	Magnanime
Builders	Toulon
Operators	French Navy
Completed	2
General characteristics
Type	Ship of the line
Displacement	1,800 tonnes
Length	55.6 m (182 ft 5 in)
Beam	14.3 m (46 ft 11 in)
Draught	6.8 m (22 ft 4 in)
Propulsion	Sail
Armament	74 guns: 28 36-pounder long guns 30 18-pounder long guns 16 8-pounder long guns
Armour	Timber

The Magnanime class was a class of two 74-gun ships of the line built for France in the late 1770s. They were designed by Jean-Denis Chevillard, and both were constructed at Rochefort Dockyard.

Magnanime

Builder: Rochefort Dockyard

Ordered: 1778

Begun: October 1778

Launched: 27 August 1779

Completed: December 1779

Fate: Decommissioned in 1792 at Brest, broken up in 1793

Illustre

Builder: Rochefort Dockyard

Ordered: 1778 or 1779

Begun: August 1779

Launched: 23 February 1781

Completed: March 1781

Fate: Renamed Mucius Scévola in January 1791, shortened to Scévola in February 1791, and cut down (raséed) to a 50-gun "heavy" frigate between August 1793 and February 1794. Wrecked in a storm on 16 December 1796 during the attempted invasion of Ireland.

Citations

References

Winfield, Rif and Roberts, Stephen S. (2017) French Warships in the Age of Sail 1626–1786: Design, Construction, Careers and Fates.. Seaforth Publishing, 2017. ISBN 978-1-4738-9351-1.
Winfield, Rif and Roberts, Stephen S. (2015) French Warships in the Age of Sail 1786-1861: Design, Construction, Careers and Fates. Seaforth Publishing. ISBN 978-1-84832-204-2.

French Navy ship of the line classes timeline, 1750s–1900s

Type	1750s–1760s				1770s–1780s				1790s–1800s				1810s–1820s				1830s–1840s				1850s–1860s				1870s–1880s				1890s–1900s
	50	55	60	65	70	75	80	85	90	95	00	05	10	15	20	25	30	35	40	45	50	55	60	65	70	75	80	85	90	95	00	05
130 gun three-decker																						Bretagne
110-120 gun three-decker		Sans-Pareil class						Océan class
				Bretagne																Valmy
							Terrible class						Commerce de Paris class
90-100 gun two-decker																					Napoléon class
																Suffren class
																		Hercule class
80-gun two-decker			Saint-Esprit class
								Deux Frères				Bucentaure class
									Tonnant class
74-gun two-decker	Hector class
	Magnifique class
		Souverain class
		Diadème class
				Citoyen class
				Marseillois
					César class
							Magnanime class
							Annibal class
							Scipion class
							Pégase class
							Téméraire class
								Centaure class

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