French ship Deux Frères

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Career (France) French Navy Ensign French Navy Ensign
Name: Deux Frères
Namesake: Louis-Stanislas-Xavier and Charles-Philippe, brothers of Louis XVI
Builder: Brest
Laid down: July 1782
Launched: 13 September 1784
Commissioned: 1785
Captured: 1 June 1794
Career (UK) Royal Navy Ensign
Name: HMS Juste
Acquired: 1 June 1794
Fate: Broken up in 1811
General characteristics
Propulsion: sails
Armament: 80 guns
Armour: Timber

The Deux Frères was a 80-gun ship of the line of the French Navy. She was offered to King Louis XVI by his two brothers.

On 29 September 1792, she was renamed Juste. She took part in the Bataille du 13 prairial an 2, where she was captured.

She was commissioned in the Royal Navy as HMS Juste, and broken up in 1811