![]() Raisonnable
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Name | Raisonnable |
Launched | November 1756 |
Captured | 29 May 1758, by Royal Navy |
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Name | Raisonnable |
Acquired | 29 May 1758 |
Fate | Lost, 3 February 1762 |
General characteristics | |
Class and type | 28-gun third-rate ship of the line |
Tons burthen | 1326 80⁄94 bm |
Length | |
Beam | 43 ft 10 in (13.4 m) |
Depth of hold | 19 ft 6.75 in (5.96 m) |
Sail plan | Full-rigged ship |
Complement | 500 |
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Raisonnable was a 64-gun ship of the line of the French Navy, launched in 1755.
On 29 May 1758 she was captured in the Bay of Biscay by HMS Dorsetshire and HMS Achilles at the action of 29 April 1758. Commissioned into the Royal Navy in 1759 under Captain John Montagu, she served in the Leeward Islands until 3 February 1762 when she grounded and was wrecked on a reef off the port of Martinique.[1]
See also
Citations
- ^ Winfield 2007, p.95
References
- Winfield, Rif (2007). British Warships of the Age of Sail 1714–1792: Design, Construction, Careers and Fates. Barnsley, United Kingdom: Seaforth. ISBN 9781844157006.