Saint-Esprit-class ship of the line

Class overview
The Saint-Esprit in action. (Detail of an English painting of 1784)
Name	Saint-Esprit
Succeeded by	Tonnant class
General characteristics
Type	Ship of the line
Displacement	1754 tonnes
Length	59.8 m (196 ft 2 in)
Beam	14.9 m (48 ft 11 in)
Draught	7.5 m (24 ft 7 in)
Speed	Sail
Armament	80 guns: 30 × 36-pounder long guns 32 × 24-pounder long guns 18 × 18-pounder long guns
Armour	Timber

The Saint-Esprit group was a type of three 80-gun ships of the line of the French Navy. They did not constitute a single class, as each was built to a separate design, but they each carried a standard ordnance amounting to 80 guns.

Ships in class

Saint-Esprit. Renamed Scipion.

Builder: Brest

Ordered: 11 January 1762

Launched: 12 October 1765

Fate: Lost in storm on 26 january 1795

Languedoc, renamed Anti-fédéraliste and Victoire.

Builder: Toulon

Ordered: 9 December 1761

Launched: 15 May 1766

Fate: Broken up in 1799 in Brest

Couronne.

Builder: Arsenal of Brest

Ordered: 1766

Launched: May 1768

Fate: Accidentally burnt at Brest in 1781. A replacement, Couronne was constructed from the salvaged remains. Renamed Ça Ira in 1792, this ship was captured by Britain on 14 March 1795, destroyed in an accidental fire on 11 April 1796.

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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