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France | |
Name | Majestueux |
Namesake | "Majestuous" |
Ordered | 20 April 1780 |
Builder | Toulon |
Laid down | 5 July 1780 |
Launched | 17 November 1780 |
Commissioned | 4 February 1781 |
Fate | Broken up 1808 |
General characteristics | |
Class and type | Terrible-class ship of the line |
Displacement | 2,500 tonnes |
Length | 60.6 m (198 ft 10 in) |
Beam | 16.2 m (53 ft 2 in) |
Draught | 8.6 m (28 ft 3 in) |
Propulsion | Sail |
Armament | 110 guns |
Majestueux was a 110-gun ship of the line of the French Navy, of the Terrible class.
She was renamed Républicain in 1797. In 1807, she was decommissioned and used as a transport.
The ship was broken up in 1808. [1]
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