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French ship Brave (1781)

History
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Name: Brave
Namesake: Brave
Builder: Rochefort
Laid down: October 1779
Launched: 6 June 1781
In service: November 1781
Out of service: 1801
General characteristics
Class and type: Argonaute class ship of the line
Displacement: 1500 tonnes
Length: 55.2 m (181 ft)
Beam: 14.3 m (47 ft)
Draught: 7.4 m (24 ft)
Propulsion: Sail
Armament:
  • 74 guns:
  • 28 36-pounders
  • 30 18-pounders
  • 16 8-pounders
  • Later rasé to 52
Armour: Timber

The Brave was a 74-gun Argonaute class ship of the line of the French Navy.

Commissioned in 1781, she was put in the reserve in 1788, but reactivated in March 1791. Two years later, she was decommissioned again, and razeed to a 52-gun frigate. She took part in the Biscay campaign of June 1795 under Captain Antoine René Thévenard.

She later served under Captain Rolland, and was used as a hulk in Toulon from 1798.



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