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HMS St Florentine (1759)

History
French Royal Navy EnsignFrance
Name: St Florentine
Commissioned: April 1758
Out of service: April 1759
Captured: 4 April 1759, by Royal Navy
Royal Navy EnsignGreat Britain
Name: HMS St Florentine
Acquired: 4 April 1759
Commissioned: September 1759
Decommissioned: May 1771
In service: 1759-1771
Fate: Sunk as breakwater, 1771
General characteristics
Class and type: 60-gun fourth rate ship of the line
Tons burthen: 11087094 (bm)
Length: 147 ft 9 12 in (45.0 m) (gundeck)
Beam: 41 ft 7 in (12.67 m)
Depth of hold: 17 ft 10 in (5.44 m)
Propulsion: Sails
Sail plan: Full rigged ship
Complement: 420
Armament:
  • 60 guns:
  • Lower gundeck: 24 × 24 pdrs
  • Upper gundeck: 26 × 12 pdrs
  • Quarterdeck: 8 × 6 pdrs
  • Forecastle: 2 × 6 pdrs

St Florentine was a 60-gun coast guard vessel in service in support of the French Navy during the early days of the Seven Years' War, before being captured by Britain in 1759 and commissioned into the Royal Navy as HMS St Florentine.

Surplus to Navy requirements by 1771, St Florentine was decommissioned and sunk as a breakwater off the port of Sheerness.



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