French ship Terrible (1779)

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Name: Terrible
Ordered: 23 October 1778
Builder: Toulon
Laid down: April 1779
Launched: 27 January 1780
Commissioned: May 1780
Decommissioned: 1802
General characteristics
Class and type: Terrible class ship of the line
Displacement: 2500 tonnes
Length: 60.6 metres
Beam: 16.2 metres
Draught: 8.6 metres
Propulsion: Sail
Armament: 110 guns
Armour: Timber

The Terrible was a 110-gun ship of the line of the French Navy, lead ship of her class.

She took part in the Bataille du 13 prairial an 2, where she was dismasted by HMS Royal Sovereign. She later took part in the campaign of Winter 1794-1795, and in the Cruise of Bruix.

She was decommissioned in 1802, condemned in May 1804, and eventually broken up in October.

References

  • Dictionnaire de la flotte de guerre française, Jean-Michel Roche