French ship Bourbon (1692)

Bourbon was a ship of the line of the French Navy. She was armed with 68 guns, comprising twenty-six 24-pounder long guns on the lower gun deck and twenty-eight 12-pounder long guns on the upper gun deck, with eight 6-pounder long guns on the quarterdeck and six 6-pounder long guns on the forecastle.

Bourbon (second from left) being brought into the Vlissingen roadstead by the Dutch privateers Neptunus and Concordia in October 1702
History
France
Name	Bourbon
Ordered	19 June 1692 (contract)
Builder	Toulon arsenal
Laid down	June 1692
Launched	17 November 1692
Commissioned	February 1693
Fate	Captured at the Battle of Vigo Bay on 23 October 1702 and burnt on 30 October
General characteristics
Tonnage	1,200
Length	140 French feet[a]
Beam	38 French feet 4 inches
Draught	20-24½ French feet
Depth of hold	18 French feet
Complement	450 men (350 in peacetime), + 8 officers
Armament	68 guns

Designed and built by François Coulomb, Bourbon was laid down at the Toulon arsenal in June 1692 as one of the replacements for the ships destroyed by an Anglo-Dutch attack at battles of Barfleur and La Hogue in June 1692. She was launched in November 1692 and commissioned into the French navy in February 1693.

Bourbon was captured by the Dutch warship De Zeven Provinciën at the battle of Vigo Bay on 23 October 1702 and burnt a week later.

Notes

1. The French (pre-metric) foot was 6.575% longer than the equivalent English foot.

References

• Roche, Jean-Michel (2005). Dictionnaire des bâtiments de la flotte de guerre française de Colbert à nos jours 1 1671 - 1870. p. 223. ISBN 978-2-9525917-0-6. OCLC 165892922.
• Nomenclature des Vaisseaux du Roi-Soleil de 1661 a 1715. Alain Demerliac (Editions Omega, Nice – various dates).
• The Sun King's Vessels (2015) – Jean-Claude Lemineur; English translation by François Fougerat. Editions ANCRE. ISBN 978-2903179885
• Winfield, Rif and Roberts, Stephen (2017) French Warships in the Age of Sail 1626-1786: Design, Construction, Careers and Fates. Seaforth Publishing. ISBN 978-1-4738-9351-1.