Terrible class

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Terribble class

Ship data country  France Ship type Ship of the line Shipyard Rochefort, Brest, Toulon Construction period 1779 to 1780 Launch of the type ship March 20, 1780 Units built 2 period of service 1780 to 1808

Ship dimensions and crew length 59.8 m ( Lüa ) width 16.2 m Draft Max. 8.3 m displacement 2,400 load   crew approx. 1,055

Machine system

Armament 110 cannons nominal

The Terrible class was the heaviest class of ships of the line in the French Navy .

The two units Terrible and Majestueux were put into service from 1780. With three decks and a nominal 110 cannons, they were among the largest warships of their time. The Victory , which still exists today, gives an impression of these ships .

history

The looming war with England led to a French naval building program. The largest units was the Terrible class. Francois Guillaume Clairin Deslauriers ( Rochefort ), Leon Michel Guignance ( Brest ) and Joseph Marie Blaise Coulomb ( Toulon ) took on the planning based on a common specification .

The successor class Océan was laid down in 1787 .

Ship list

Surname	shipyard	Launch	Commissioning	Decommissioning	Whereabouts
Terrible	Toulon	01/27/1780	May 1780	November 1801	Wrecked October 1804
Majestueux (from 1797 Republicain )	Toulon	11/17/1780	June 1781	May 1807

literature

• Rif Winfield & Stephen S. Roberts: French Warships in the Age of Sail 1786-1861 . Seaforth Publishing, 2017, ISBN 978-1-4738-9351-1 .
• Roche, Jean Michel: Dictionnaire des batiments de la flotte de guerre francaise de Colbert a nos jours 1 1671-1870 p.223 . ISBN 978-2-9525917-0-6 .
• Alain Demerliac: Nomenclature des navires francais de 1715–1774 . edition omega, Nice 1995, ISBN 2-906381-19-5 .