French ship Sceptre (1780)
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For other ships with the same name, see French ship Sceptre and French ship Marengo.
Sceptre was a 74-gun ship of the line of the French Navy. Built under the Ancien Régime, she took part in the naval operations in the American Revolutionary War. At the Revolution, she took part in the main actions of the French Revolutionary Wars, notably the so-called Glorious First of June and in Bruix' expedition of 1799. Showing her age by the rise of the First French Empire, she was hulked and eventually broken up.
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Name | Sceptre |
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Builder | Brest |
Laid down | 25 May 1780 |
Launched | 21 September 1780 |
Commissioned | October 1780 |
Decommissioned | 1802 |
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Tonnage | 1,630 tonnes |
Length | 55.55 metres (182.3 ft) (171 pied) |
Beam | 14.3 metres (47 ft) (44 pied) |
Depth | 7 metres (23 ft) (21.6 pied) |
Propulsion | Sail |
Complement | 750 men |
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Armour | Timber |
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