HMS Belleisle (1761)

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Career (France) French Royal Navy Ensign
Name: Belleisle
Launched: 1760
Captured: 3 April 1761, by Royal Navy
Career (UK) Royal Navy Ensign
Name: HMS Belleisle
Acquired: 3 April 1761
Fate: Sold, 1819
General characteristics [1]
Class and type: 64-gun third rate ship of the line
Tons burthen: 1494 tons (1520 tonnes)
Length: 168 ft 5½ in (51.3 m) (gundeck)
Beam: 45 ft ½ in (13.7 m)
Depth of hold: 20 ft 7 in (6.3 m)
Propulsion: Sails
Sail plan: Full rigged ship
Armament: 64 guns of various weights of shot

Belleisle was a 64-gun ship of the line of the French Navy, launched in 1760.

She was captured by the Royal Navy on 3 April 1761, and commissioned as the third rate HMS Belleisle. She was placed on harbour service in 1784, and was sold out of the navy in 1819.

[edit] Notes

  1. ^ Lavery, Ships of the Line vol.1. p178.

[edit] References

  • Lavery, Brian (2003) The Ship of the Line - Volume 1: The development of the battlefleet 1650-1850. Conway Maritime Press. ISBN 0-85177-252-8.