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French ship La Couronne (1749)

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History
French Navy EnsignFrance
NameCouronne
BuilderRochefort
Laid downMay 1748
Launched1749
FateCondemned in 1766 and broken up
General characteristics
Displacement1400 tonnes
Length54.2 m (178 ft)
Beam14.3 m (47 ft)
Draught7.1 m (23 ft)
Complement600
Armament
  • 80 guns:
  • 28 × 36-pounder long guns
  • 30 × 18-pounder long guns
  • 18 × 8-pounder long guns

The Couronne was a 74-gun ship of the line of the French Navy.

She was built at Rochefort, being launched in 1749 and completed the following year. She served until being condemned at Brest and was broken up in 1766. Some of her timbers may have gone towards the construction of her namesake, the 80-gun Saint-Esprit-class Couronne, launched in August that year from Brest.

References

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  • Roche, Jean-Michel (2005). Dictionnaire des bâtiments de la flotte de guerre française de Colbert à nos jours 1 1671–1870. p. 132. ISBN 978-2-9525917-0-6. OCLC 165892922.