Pégase class ship of the line
Foudroyant and Pégase entering Portsmouth Harbour, 1782. Painting by Dominic Serres
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| Name: | Pégase |
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| Completed: | 6 |
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| Class and type: | Pégase class |
| Tons burthen: | 1500 tonnes |
| Length: | 55.2 metres |
| Beam: | 14.3 metres |
| Draught: | 6.8 metres |
| Propulsion: | Sails |
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The Pégase class was a class of 74-gun ships of the French Navy, built to a common design by naval constructor Antoine Groignard. It comprised six ships, all ordered during 1781 and all named on 13 July 1781.
The name-ship of the class - Pégase - was captured by the British Navy just two months after her completion; the other five ships were all at Toulon in August 1793 when that port was handed over by French Royalists to the occupying Anglo-Spanish forces, and they were seized by the British Navy. When French Republican forces forced the evacuation of the Allies in December, the Puissant was sailed to England (and - like the Pégase - was used as a harbour hulk there until the end of the Napoleonic Wars), and the Liberté (ex-Dictateur) and Suffisant were destroyed during the evacuation of the port; the remaining pair were recovered by the French Navy - see their respective individual histories below.
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