French Ship Courageux (1753)
French Navy: 74 guns
- Gundeck: 28 × 36 pdrs
- Upper gundeck: 30 × 24 pdrs
- Quarterdeck: 16 × 8 pdrs
Royal Navy: 74 guns
- Gundeck: 28 × 32 pdrs
- Upper gundeck: 28 × 18 pdrs
- Quarterdeck: 18 × 9 pdrs
Courageux was a heavy 74-gun ship of the line of the French Navy, launched in 1753. She was captured by the Royal Navy in 1761 and taken into service as HMS Courageux. She was wrecked in 1796.
Read more about French Ship Courageux (1753): French Service, Capture By The Royal Navy, Fate
Famous quotes containing the words french and/or ship:
“Saigon was an addicted city, and we were the drug: the corruption of children, the mutilation of young men, the prostitution of women, the humiliation of the old, the division of the family, the division of the country—it had all been done in our name.... The French city ... had represented the opium stage of the addiction. With the Americans had begun the heroin phase.”
—James Fenton (b. 1949)
“Every ship is a romantic object, except that we sail in. Embark, and the romance quits our vessel, and hangs on every other sail in the horizon.”
—Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803–1882)