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Pompée class ship of the line

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Class overview
Name: Pompée
Operators:  Royal Navy
Succeeded by: America-class
In service: 19 March 1798 - 1865
Completed: 2
General characteristics
Type: Ship of the line
Length:
  • 182 ft 2 in (55.52 m) (gundeck)
  • 149 ft 9 in (45.64 m) (keel)
Beam: 49 ft (15 m)
Propulsion: Sails
Armament:
  • 74 guns:
  • Gundeck: 28 × 32 pdrs
  • Upper gundeck: 30 × 18 pdrs
  • Quarterdeck: 12 × 9 pdrs
  • Forecastle: 4 × 9 pdrs
Notes: Ships in class include: Superb, Achilles

The Pompée-class ships of the line were a class of two 74-gun third rates. They were built for the Royal Navy to the lines of the French ship Pompée, a Téméraire-class ship of the line which had been captured by Britain in 1793.



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