French ship Deux Frères

For other ships with the same name, see French ship Juste.

Deux Frères (literally Two Brothers) was an 80-gun ship of the line of the French Navy.

Left: America (1788) and right: Juste after her capture in 1794.
History
France
Name	Deux Frères
Namesake	Louis-Stanislas-Xavier and Charles-Philippe, brothers of Louis XVI
Builder	Brest
Laid down	July 1782
Launched	17 September 1784
Commissioned	1785
Renamed	Juste, 29 September 1792
Captured	by the Royal Navy, 1 June 1794
Great Britain
Name	Juste
Acquired	1 June 1794
Fate	Broken up in 1811
General characteristics [1]
Type	Ship of the line
Tons burthen	2,143 18⁄94 (bm)
Length	193 ft 4 in (58.93 m) (gundeck) 159 ft 4 in (48.56 m) (keel)
Beam	50 ft 3.5 in (15.329 m)
Draught	22 ft 5 in (6.83 m)
Propulsion	Sails
Sail plan	Full-rigged ship
Armament	80 long guns

She was funded by a don des vaisseaux donation from the two brothers of King Louis XVI.^[2] The ship was laid down at Brest in July 1782, and launched on 17 September 1784, based on a design by Antoine Groignard, and built by Jacques-Augustin Lamothe.^[1] On 29 September 1792, she was renamed Juste.^[2]

HMS Queen Charlotte captured Juste at the battle of the Glorious First of June in 1794. Captain William Cayley commissioned her in the Royal Navy as HMS Juste in August 1795. In October Captain the Honourable Thomas Pakenham replaced Cayley and commissioned Juste for service in the Channel. Captain Sir Henry Trollope replaced Pakenham in June 1799. In 1801 she was commanded by Captains Herbert Sawyer, Richard Dacres — under whom she took part in Rear-Admiral Robert Calder's pursuit of Honoré Ganteaume's fleet to the West Indies — and Sir Edmund Nagle.

Fate

In April 1802 Juste was laid up in ordinary at Plymouth, and was broken up there in February 1811.^[1]

See also

• List of ships captured in the 18th century