French ship Alcide (1742)

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Career (France) French Royal Navy Ensign
Name: Alcide
Ordered: October 1741
Builder: Brest Naval Dockyard
Laid down: March 1742
Launched: 6 December 1743
Commissioned: 1744
Captured: 8 June 1755, by Royal Navy
Career (Great Britain) Royal Navy Ensign
Name: HMS Alcide
Acquired: 8 June 1755
Fate: Sold, 1772
General characteristics [1]
Class and type: 64-gun third rate ship of the line
Tons burthen: 1373.8 tons (1397.1 tonnes)
Length: 159 ft (48 m) (gundeck);
128 ft 4.5 in (39.129 m) (gundeck)
Beam: 44 ft 10.25 in (13.6716 m)
Depth of hold: 18 ft 2.375 in (5.54673 m)
Propulsion: Sails
Sail plan: Full rigged ship
Armament: 64 guns of various weights of shot

Alcide was a 64-gun ship of the line of the French Navy, launched in 1742.

On 8 June 1755, Alcide was captured by HMS Dunkirk and HMS Torbay of Vice-Admiral Edward Boscawen's squadron, and commissioned into the Royal Navy in 1757 as the Third rate HMS Alcide.

HMS Alcide was sold out of the navy in May 1772.

Notes

  1. Lavery, Ships of the Line, vol. 1, p. 178.

References

  • Lavery, Brian, The Ship of the Line - Volume 1: The development of the battlefleet 1650-1850. Conway Maritime Press, 2003. ISBN 0-85177-252-8.
  • Winfield, Rif, British Warships in the Age of Sail, 1714-1792: Design, Construction, Careers and Fates. Seaforth Publishing, 2007. ISBN 978-1-84415-700-6.