History | |
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France | |
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 |
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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.