| Class overview | |
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| Name: | Argonaute |
| Operators: |
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| Completed: | 2 |
| General characteristics | |
| Class and type: | Argonaute class |
| Length: | 55.22 metres |
| Beam: | 14.29 metres |
| Draught: | 7.39 metres |
| Propulsion: | Sails |
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The Argonaute class was a class of two 74-gun ships of the French Navy, built to a common design by naval constructor François-Guillaume Clairin-Deslauriers. The design was lengthened by 4feet 9½ inches (4½ pieds) from the designer's previous Scipion class, which had been found to lack stability. The designer died on 10 October 1780, and the construction of these ships was completed by Jean-Denis Chevillard, who was appointed his successor as ingénieur-constructeur en chef at that dockyard in July 1781.