French ship Duguay-Trouin (1788)
Duguay-Trouin was a French 74-gun ship of the line, part of the large Téméraire class. It was built at Brest and named after the naval officer René Duguay-Trouin. Construction began in 1787; the ship was launched on 30 October 1788 and completed in July 1790, after which it served in the French Navy until 1793.
Dimensions and crew: The ship was about 55.9 meters long, 14.46 meters wide, with a draft of 7.15 meters. It displaced about 3,069 tons and had a crew of around 705. Armament consisted of 74 guns: 28 × 36-pounders on the lower deck, 30 × 18-pounders on the upper deck, and 16 × 8-pounders on the forecastle and quarterdeck. Some ships in the class later carried different or additional weapons.
Service: In 1791 Duguay-Trouin ferried troops from Brest to Martinique and Saint-Domingue. In 1792 it patrolled off Brittany. In 1793 it took part in the expedition to Sardinia and ran aground near Cagliari on 12 February, but freed itself five days later. The ship was present at Toulon when Royalist forces surrendered the city, and it was burned (scuttled) to prevent capture at the end of the Siege of Toulon. The wreck was raised in 1807 and broken up.
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