French ship Superbe (1784)

Scale model of Achille, sister ship of French ship Superbe (1784), on display at the Musée de la Marine in Paris.
History
France
Name:	Superbe
Namesake:	"Superb"
Builder:	Brest
Laid down:	July 1782
Launched:	11 November 1784
In service:	1785
Out of service:	1795
Fate:	Sunk on 30 January 1795
General characteristics
Class and type:	Téméraire-class ship of the line
Displacement:	1966 tonnes 3260 tonnes fully loaded
Length:	55.87 metres (183.3 ft) (172 pied)
Beam:	14.90 metres (48 ft 11 in)
Draught:	7.26 metres (23.8 ft) (22 pied)
Propulsion:	Up to 2,485 m2 (26,750 sq ft) of sails
Armament:	74 guns: Lower gundeck: 28 × 36-pounder long guns Upper gundeck: 30 × 18-pounder long guns Forecastle and Quarter deck: 16 × 8-pounder long guns 4 × 36-pounder carronades
Armour:	Timber

Superbe was a Téméraire-class 74-gun ship of the line of the French Navy. Her hull was copper sheathed.

She took part in the Croisière du Grand Hiver, where she sank due to a leak. Her crew were rescued by Pierre Maurice Julien de Quérangal.