French ship Northumberland (1780)

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Flag of the Kingdom of France (1814-1830).svg Flag of French-Navy-Revolution.svg France
NameNorthumberland
Namesake HMS Northumberland, a previous ship captured from the Royal Navy and commissioned in the French Navy
Laid down24 February 1779 [1]
Launched3 May 1780 [1]
CommissionedJuly 1780 [1]
Honours and
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Captured Glorious First of June, by Royal Navy
British-White-Ensign-1707.svg Great Britain
NameNorthumberland
AcquiredJune, 1794
FateBroken up, December 1795
General characteristics
Class and type Annibal-class ship of the line
Tons burthen1500 tonnes
Length54.7 m (179 ft 6 in)
Beam14.3 m (46 ft 11 in)
Draught7.2 m (23 ft 7 in)
PropulsionSails
Armament74 guns of various weights of shot

Northumberland was a 74-gun Annibal-class ship of the line of the French Navy.

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Career

She took part in the Battle of the Chesapeake on 5 September 1781 under Bon Chrétien de Bricqueville. Seven months later, she took part in Battle of the Saintes on 12 April 1782 under Captain Cresp de Saint-Césaire, who was killed in the action. [2] The ship was saved by the active help of Swedish officer Henrik Johan Nauckhoff, who was later to become a Swedish admiral and at the time was on leave from Swedish service to gain experience fighting with the French. [3] In 1782, she captured the 14-gun sloop HMS Allegiance.

Northumberland was captured during the Glorious First of June in 1794, where she was captained by François-Pierre Étienne. She was recommissioned in the Royal Navy as HMS Northumberland, and was broken up the next year in December 1795. [1]

Citations

  1. 1 2 3 4 Roche (2005), p. 329.
  2. Antier (1991), p. 322.
  3. Grandin, Gunnar (1987). "Hindric Johan Nauckhoff". Svenskt biografiskt lexikon (in Swedish). Vol. 26. p. 457 via Swedish National Archives.

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