French ship Diadème (1756)
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| Name: | Diadème |
| Namesake: | Diadem |
| Ordered: | 10 September 1755 |
| Builder: | Brest |
| Laid down: | September 1755 |
| Launched: | 26 July 1756 |
| Commissioned: | November 1756 |
| Decommissioned: | 1797 |
| Renamed: | Brutus on 29 September 1792 |
| Fate: | Broken up, 1797 |
| General characteristics | |
| Class and type: | Diadème-class ship of the line |
| Displacement: | 1,500 tonnes (1,476 long tons) |
| Length: | 54.6 m (179 ft 2 in) |
| Beam: | 14.1 m (46 ft 3 in) |
| Draught: | 6.8 m (22 ft 4 in) |
| Propulsion: | Sail |
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| Armour: | Timber |
Diadème was the lead ship of the Diadème class 74-gun ship of the line of the French Navy.
On 17 March 1757, along with the 64-gun Éveillé, she captured HMS Greenwich, commanded by Captain Robert Roddam, off Saint-Domingue.
In 1780, under Dampierre she was part of La Motte-Piquet's squadron, along with Annibal, Amphion and Réfléchi.
She took part in the naval operations in the American Revolutionary War under de Grasse, notably fighting at the Battle of the Chesapeake.
On 29 September 1792, she was renamed Brutus.
She was razéed down to a 42-gun frigate in May 1794, and took part in the Bataille du 13 prairial an 2 in June, taking the Indomptable in tow.
She was eventually broken up in 1797.
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