Saint-Esprit-class ship of the line

Class overview
Fight of the Ça Ira off Noli on 14 March 1795
Name:	Saint-Esprit
Succeeded by:	Tonnant class ship
General characteristics
Type:	ship of the line
Displacement:	1754 tonnes
Length:	59.8 metres
Beam:	14.9 metres
Draught:	7.5 metres
Speed:	Sail
Armament:	80 guns: 30 x 36-pounder long guns 32 x 24-pounder long guns 18 x 18-pounder long guns
Armour:	Timber
Notes:	Ships in class include: Couronne, Languedoc, Saint-Esprit

The Saint-Esprit group was a type of three 80-gun ships of the line of the French Navy. They did not constitute a single class, as each was built to a separate design, but they each carried a standard ordnance amounting to 80 guns.

Saint-Esprit. Renamed Scipion.

Builder: Brest

Ordered: 11 January 1762

Launched: 12 October 1765

Fate: Lost in storm on 26 january 1795

Couronne.

Builder: Arsenal of Brest

Ordered:

Launched: May 1768

Fate: Accidentally burnt at Brest in 1781. A replacement, Couronne was constructed from the salvaged remains. Renamed Ça Ira in 1792, this ship was captured by Britain on 14 March 1795, destroyed in an accidental fire on 11 April 1796

Languedoc Renamed Anti-fédéraliste and Victoire

Builder: Toulon

Ordered:

Launched: 15 May 1766

Fate: Broken up in 1799 in Brest

French Navy ship of the line classes timeline, 1750s–1900s — next »
Type	1750s–1760s				1770s–1780s				1790s–1800s				1810s–1820s				1830s–1840s				1850s–1860s				1870s–1880s				1890s–1900s
Type	50	55	60	65	70	75	80	85	90	95	00	05	10	15	20	25	30	35	40	45	50	55	60	65	70	75	80	85	90	95	00	05
130 gun three-decker																						Bretagne
110-120 gun three-decker		Sans-Pareil class						Océan class
				Bretagne																Valmy
							Terrible class						Commerce de Paris class
90-100 gun two-decker																					Napoléon class
																Suffren class
																		Hercule class
80-gun two-decker			Saint-Esprit class
								Deux Frères				Bucentaure class
									Tonnant class
74-gun two-decker	Hector class
	Magnifique class
		Souverain class
		Diadème class
				Citoyen class
				Marseillois
					César class
							Magnanime class
							Annibal class
							Scipion class
							Pégase class
							Téméraire class
								Centaure class

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