French ship Solitaire (1774)

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Career (France) French Royal Navy Ensign
Name: Solitaire
Launched: 1774
Captured: 6 December 1782, by Royal Navy
Career (Great Britain) Royal Navy Ensign
Name: HMS Solitaire
Acquired: 6 December 1782
Fate: Sold, 1790
General characteristics [1]
Class and type: 64-gun third rate ship of the line
Tons burthen: 1521 tons (1545.4 tonnes)
Propulsion: Sails
Sail plan: Full rigged ship
Armament: 64 guns of various weights of shot

Solitaire was a 64-gun ship of the line of the French Navy, launched in 1774.

She was captured by the Royal Navy on 6 December 1782, and commissioned as the third rate HMS Solitaire. She was sold out of the navy in 1790.

Notes

  1. Lavery, Ships of the Line vol.1. p182.

References

  • Lavery, Brian (2003) The Ship of the Line - Volume 1: The development of the battlefleet 1650-1850. Conway Maritime Press. ISBN 0-85177-252-8.