Magnanime-class ship of the line
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| Class overview | |
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| Name: | Magnanime |
| Builders: | Toulon |
| Operators: |  French Navy |
| Completed: | 2 |
| General characteristics | |
| Class & type: | Magnanime class ship of the line |
| Displacement: | 1500 tonnes |
| Length: | 55.6 metres |
| Beam: | 14.3 metres |
| Draught: | 6.8 metres |
| Propulsion: | Sail |
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| Armour: | Timber |
The Magnanime class was a class of two 74-gun ships of the line built for France in the late 1970s. They were designed by Jean-Denis Chevillard, and both were constructed at Rochefort Dockyard.
- Builder: Rochefort Dockyard
- Ordered: 1778
- Begun: October 1778
- Launched: 27 August 1779
- Completed: December 1779
- Fate: Decommissioned in 1792 at Brest, broken up in 1793
- Builder: Rochefort Dockyard
- Ordered: 1778 or 1779
- Begun: August 1779
- Launched: 23 February 1781
- Completed: March 1781
- Fate: Renamed Mucius Scévola in January 1791, shortened to Scévola in February 1791, and cut down (raséed) to a 50-gun "heavy" frigate between August 1793 and February 1794. Wrecked in a storm on 16 December 1796 during the attempted invasion of Ireland.
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