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Jean Boudriot, transl. David Roberts, The Seventy-Four Gun Ship (Naval Institute Press, 1986) originally Le Vaisseau de 74 Canons, 1973. Four volumes document every aspect of the French 74, from shipyard construction techniques to handling under sail. Many large diagrams and drawings.
Jean Pierre Paul Boudriot, (20 March 1921 in Dijon — 22 February 2015 in Paris) was a French naval architect and notable historian of weaponry and naval engineering. Bourdiot was one on the foremost instigators of the renaissance of naval archaeology and of arsenal modelism. He notably authored a 4-volume opus on 74-guns, Le vaisseau de 74 ...
The French frigate Aigrette, with the 74-gun Glorieux in sight, was able to overtake Loyalist. [2] The French took her into service as Loyaliste in September, but then gave her to the Americans in November 1781. [1] On 12 April 1782 the ship, under command of Captain (Baron) D'Escars, faced first HMS Duke then HMS Formidable at the Battle of ...
Victoire was a Bien-Aimé-class 74-gun ship of the line of the French Navy. Career ... Jean Boudriot. ISBN 0-948864-30-3. Roche, Jean-Michel (2005).
Plans of the Courageux, 1761 Another view of the Courageux, 1761. Courageux was a 74-gun ship of the line of the French Royal Navy.Her keel of 140 feet 1 + 1 ⁄ 8 inches (42.7 m) was laid down at Brest in April 1751, and her dimensions as built were 172 feet 3 inches (52.5 m) along the gun deck, with a beam of 48 feet 3 ⁄ 4 inch (14.6 m) and a depth in the hold of 20 feet 10 + 1 ⁄ 2 ...
The action of 19 January 1799 was a minor naval battle of the French Revolutionary Wars fought in waters of the Strait of Gibraltar, off Punta Europa.A Spanish squadron of 14 gunboats with a mistico as flagship, commanded by Francisco Mourelle de la Rua, attacked a British merchant convoy escorted by several Royal Navy warships, among them a 74-gun ship of the line.
Bourgogne was a 74-gun ship of the line of the French Navy. She was funded by a don des vaisseaux donation from the Estates of Bourgogne. She was commissioned in 1772, and served in the squadron of the Mediterranean, with a refit in 1775, and another in 1778.
HMS Captain was a 74-gun third-rate ship of the line of the Royal Navy, launched on 26 November 1787 at Limehouse. She served during the French revolutionary and Napoleonic Wars before being placed in harbour service in 1799. An accident caused her to burn and founder in 1813. Later that year she was raised and broken up.