French ship Majestueux (1780)

For other ships with the same name, see French ship Majestueux and French ship Républicain.

History
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]

Citations

1. Winfield & Roberts p.74

References

• Roche, Jean-Michel (2005). Dictionnaire des bâtiments de la flotte de guerre française de Colbert à nos jours 1 1671–1870. p. 293. ISBN   978-2-9525917-0-6. OCLC   165892922.
• Winfield, Rif; Roberts, Stephen S. (2017). French warships in the age of sail, 1626-1786: design, construction, careers and fates. Barnsley, South Yorkshire: Seaforth Publishing. ISBN   9781473893511.