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French ship Saint-Esprit (1766)

History
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Name: Saint-Esprit
Namesake: Order of the Holy Spirit
Ordered: 11 January 1762
Builder: Arsenal of Brest
Laid down: May 1762
Launched: 12 October 1765
Christened: 20 January 1762
Commissioned: 1766
Decommissioned: 26 January 1795
Renamed: Scipion in April 1794
Fate: Wrecked off Brest on 26 January 1795
General characteristics
Class and type: Saint-Esprit class ship of the line
Displacement: 1754 tonnes
Length: 59.8 m (196 ft)
Beam: 14.9 m (49 ft)
Draught: 7.5 m (25 ft)
Complement: 970
Armament:

The Saint-Esprit ("Holy Ghost") was an 80-gun ship of the line of the French Navy, lead ship of her class. She was funded by a don des vaisseaux donation from the Order of the Holy Spirit, and named in its honour.

She took part in the Battle of Ushant under La Motte-Picquet, and to the Armada of 1779.

She was renamed Scipion in April 1794, and took part in the Bataille du 13 prairial an 2 under Huguet, where she was totally dismasted. She was wrecked on 30 January 1795, during the Croisière du Grand Hiver. Most of her crew was rescued by Trente-et-un Mai.


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