HMS Belleisle (1761)
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Career (France) | |
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Name: | Belleisle |
Launched: | 1760 |
Captured: | 3 April 1761, by Royal Navy |
Career (UK) | |
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 |
For other ships with the same name, see HMS Belleisle and French ship Belleisle.
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
- ^ 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.