French ship Magnanime (1744)
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| Name: | Le Magnanime |
| Launched: | 1744 |
| Captured: | 31 January 1748 by the Royal Navy |
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| Name: | HMS Magnanime |
| Acquired: | 31 January 1748 |
| Fate: | Broken up in 1775 |
| General characteristics As built | |
| Class and type: | 74-gun third-rate ship of the line |
| Tons burthen: | 1,823 45⁄94 (bm) |
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| Beam: | 49 ft 4.5 in (15.050 m) |
| Depth: | 21 ft 7 in (6.58 m) |
| Sail plan: | Full-rigged ship |
| Complement: | 650 |
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| General characteristics From 1755 | |
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HMS Magnanime was a 74-gun ship of the line of the Royal Navy. She had previously been the Magnanime, a ship of the French Navy. She was launched at Rochefort in 1744 and captured by the British in 1748. She played a major part in the 1757 Rochefort expedition, helping to silence the batteries on the Isle of Aix, and served at the Battle of Quiberon Bay in 1759 under Lord Howe, where she forced the surrender of the French 74-gun Héros. Following a survey in 1770, she was deemed unseaworthy and was broken up in 1775.
Le Magnanime was built between 1741 and 1745 in the port of Rochefort on the Charente estuary, France, and was designed by the renowned shipwright Blaise Geslain. She was 173 feet 7 inches (52.91 m) along her gundeck with a 49 feet 4.5 inches (15.050 m) beam. With a depth in the hold of 21 feet 7 inches (6.58 m), she had a capacity of just over 1,823 tons BM. When first fitted out, Magnanime carried twenty-eight 32 pounders (15 kg) cannon on her lower deck, thirty 18 pounders (8.2 kg) on her upper deck, and sixteen 9 pounders (4.1 kg) guns, ten on her quarter deck and six on her forecastle.
In January 1748, Le Magnanime left Brest for the East Indies. She was partially dismasted in a storm off the coast of Ushant and while limping back to Brest, she was spotted by a British fleet under Edward Hawke. Le Magnanime was chased and engaged by HMS Nottingham and HMS Portland, and was forced to strike with 45 members of her crew killed and 105 injured. Nottingham had 16 killed and 18 wounded while Portland, catching up and joining the fight an hour later, had only 4 wounded.
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