French ship Royal Louis (1668)
For other ships of the same name, see French ship Royal Louis.
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| Career (France) |  |
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| Namesake: | Louis of France |
| Builder: | Toulon |
| Laid down: | 1666 |
| Completed: | 1670 |
| Out of service: | 1694 |
| General characteristics | |
| Class and type: | First-rate ship of the line |
| Armament: | 118 guns:
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The Royal Louis was a ship of the line of the French Royal Navy. She was constructed at Toulon between 1666 and 1670 under the direction of Rodolphe Gédéon and served as flagship of the French fleet in the Mediterranean. She was sold in 1694.[1]
On his visit to Toulon in 1683, the English naval engineer Edmund Dummer described the Royal Louis as "a great ship and glorious in her first carving, no doubt; but to my judgment not of good proportion, nor good workmanship, her figure under water I know not, nor is that above to be admired".[2]
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Drawing by Pierre Puget
References
- ↑ Dessert, Daniel (1996). La Royale. Vaisseaux et marins du Roi-Soleil. Paris: Fayard. p. 324. ISBN 2-213-02348-4.
- ↑ Fox, Celina (2007). "The Ingenious Mr Dummer: Rationalizing the Royal Navy in Late Seventeenth-Century England" (PDF). Electronic British Library Journal. p. 17. Retrieved 3 October 2009.
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