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Name | Magnanime [1] |
Namesake | Magnanimous [1] |
Builder | Rochefort [1] |
Laid down | October 1778 [1] |
Launched | 27 August 1779 [1] |
In service | December 1779 [1] |
Out of service | 1792 [1] |
Fate | Broken up 1793 |
General characteristics | |
Class and type | Magnanime class ship of the line |
Displacement | 1800 tonnes |
Length | 55.6 m (182 ft) |
Beam | 14.3 m (47 ft) |
Draught | 6.8 m (22 ft) |
Propulsion | Sail |
Armament |
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Armour | Timber |
The Magnanime was a 74-gun ship of the line of the French Navy who was the lead ship of her class.
She took part in the American Revolutionary War in De Grasse's squadron, under Captain Jean Antoine Le Bègue de Germiny, most notably in the Battle of the Chesapeake, the Battle of St. Lucia, and the Battle of the Saintes. [2]
In 1782 or 1783, she was under Antoine-Stanislas de Curières de Castelnau Saint-Cosme Sainte-Eulalie. [3]
Magnanime was broken up in Brest in 1793. [1]
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