French ship Dégo (1798)
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The San Zaccharia was a 64-gun ship of the line of the Navy of the Knights of St John of Malta, later brought into French service as the Dégo.
The San Zaccharia was built from 1763 in La Valette, and launched two years later. she served with the Maltese Navy until the French invaded Malta on 11 June 1798, as part of the Mediterranean campaign of 1798. Her name was first gallicised into Zacharie, but she was promptly renamed Dégo upon request by Bonaparte.
Dégo was blocked in La Valette harbour during the Siege of Malta by the British, and was eventually captured when the island surrendered on 4 September 1800.
She was used as a prison hulk in La Valette harbour, until she was sold for scrap in 1803.
Sources and references
- Roche, Jean-Michel (2005). Dictionnaire des bâtiments de la flotte de guerre française de Colbert à nos jours 1 1671 - 1870. p. 146. ISBN 978-2-9525917-0-6. OCLC 165892922.[self-published source?]
