French ship Duc de Bourgogne (1752)

Launching of the Duc de Bourgogne
History
France
Name:	Duc de Bourgogne
Namesake:	Duke of Burgundy
Builder:	Rochefort
Laid down:	January 1749
Launched:	20 October 1751
Completed:	December 1752
Renamed:	Laid down as Brave renamed Peuple in September 1792 then Caton in February 1794
Fate:	Broken up in 1856
General characteristics
Displacement:	3,400 tons
Tons burthen:	1,800 tons (port)
Length:	56.52 m (185.4 ft)
Beam:	14.46 m (47.4 ft)
Draught:	7.15 m (23.5 ft)
Depth of hold:	7.31 m (24.0 ft)
Propulsion:	sail
Sail plan:	full rigged
Complement:	850, +8/14 officers
Armament:	80 guns 30 36-pounder guns 32 18-pounder guns 18 8-pounder guns

The Duc de Bourgogne was an 80-gun ship of the line of the French Navy.

She was refitted twice, in and 1761 and 1779, having her hull coppered.

Under Chef d'Escadre Charles-Henri-Louis Arsac de Ternay, she was the flagship of the expeditionary corps that left on 2 May 1780 for the American war of Independence, and carried the Count of Rochambeau.

She took part in the Battle of the Saintes, where she collided with Bourgogne.

In 1792, she was renamed Peuple, and Caton in 1794.

She was condemned in February 1798 at Brest, and eventually broken up in January 1800.