French ship Conquérant (1747)

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Career (France) French Navy Ensign French Navy Ensign French Navy Ensign
Name: Conquérant
Namesake: "Conqueror"
Ordered: 5 March 1743
Builder: Toulon
Laid down: February 1745
Launched: 9 March 1746
In service: January 1747
Captured: 2 August 1798
Career (UK) Royal Navy Ensign
Name: HMS Conquerant
Acquired: 2 August 1798
General characteristics
Class and type: Citoyen class ship of the line
Displacement: 1500 tonnes
Length: 55.1 metres
Beam: 14.1 metres
Draught: 6.8 metres
Propulsion: Sail
Armament:

74 guns:
28 36-pounders
30 18-pounders

16 8-pounders
Armour: Timber

The Conquérant was a Citoyen class 74-gun ship of the line of the French Navy.

She took part in the Battle of the Nile, where she was captured by HMS Audacious. She was subsequently recommissioned in the Royal Navy.

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