HMS St Florentine (1759)

The capture of Comte de St Florentine, by Dominic Serres
History
France
Name	St Florentine
Commissioned	April 1758
Out of service	April 1759
Captured	4 April 1759, by Royal Navy
Great Britain
Name	HMS St Florentine
Acquired	4 April 1759
Commissioned	September 1759
Decommissioned	May 1771
In service	1759-1771
Fate	Sunk as breakwater, 1771
General characteristics [1]
Class & type	60-gun fourth rate ship of the line
Tons burthen	110870⁄94 (bm)
Length	147 ft 9+1⁄2 in (45.0 m) (gundeck)
Beam	41 ft 7 in (12.67 m)
Depth of hold	17 ft 10 in (5.44 m)
Propulsion	Sails
Sail plan	Full-rigged ship
Complement	420
Armament	60 guns: Lower gundeck: 24 × 24 pdrs Upper gundeck: 26 × 12 pdrs Quarterdeck: 8 × 6 pdrs Forecastle: 2 × 6 pdrs

St Florentine was a 60-gun coast guard vessel in service in support of the French Navy during the early days of the Seven Years' War, before being captured by Britain in 1759 and commissioned into the Royal Navy as HMS St Florentine.

Surplus to Navy requirements by 1771, St Florentine was decommissioned and sunk as a breakwater off the port of Sheerness.

See also

• List of ships captured in the 18th century

Notes

1. Lavery, Ships of the Line, vol. 1. p178.

References

• Lavery, Brian (1983) The Ship of the Line - Volume 1: The development of the battlefleet 1650-1850. Conway Maritime Press. ISBN   0-85177-252-8.