Bucentaure class ship of the line

Ships in class

Bucentaure

Builder: ToulonBegun: November 1802Launched: 13 July 1803Completed: January 1804Fate: Captured by the Royal Navy on 21 October 1805 following Trafalgar. Was briefly recaptured but was then wrecked on 23 October 1805.

Neptune

Builder: ToulonBegun: January 1803Launched: 15 August 1803Completed: April 1804Fate: Captured by the Spanish Navy in June 1808, renamed Neptuno, deleted 1820.

Robuste

Builder: ToulonBegun: May 1805Launched: 30 October 1806Completed: May 1807Fate: Scuttled and burnt on 26 October 1809.

Ville de Varsovie

Builder: RochefortBegun: March 1805 as Tonnant, renamed May 1807Launched: 10 May 1808Completed: July 1808Fate: Captured and burnt by the British in April 1809.

Donawerth

Builder: ToulonBegun: December 1806Launched: 4 July 1808Completed: October 1808Fate: Broken up 1824.

Eylau

Builder: LorientBegun: September 1805Launched: 19 November 1808Completed: May 1809Fate: Condemned 1829 and broken up.

Friedland

Builder: AntwerpBegun: July 1807Launched: 2 May 1810Completed: May 1811Fate: Handed over to the Netherlands on 1 August 1814 and renamed Vlaming. Broken up 1823.

Sceptre

Builder: ToulonBegun: March 1809Launched: 15 August 1810Completed: March 1811Fate: Condemned 1828 and hulked.

Tilsitt

Builder: AntwerpBegun: September 1807Launched: 15 August 1810Completed: May 1811Fate: Handed over to the Netherlands on 1 August 1814 and renamed Neptunus. Condemned and broken up 1818.

Auguste

Builder: AntwerpBegun: October 1807Launched: 25 April 1811Completed: July 1811Fate: Handed over to the Netherlands on 1 August 1814 but returned to France in September and renamed Illustre. Condemned and broken up 1827.

Pacificateur

Builder: AntwerpBegun: September 1807Launched: 22 May 1811Completed: August 1811Fate: Condemned 1823.

Illustre

Builder: AntwerpBegun: August 1807Launched: 9 June 1811Completed: October 1811Fate: Handed over to the Netherlands on 1 August 1814 and renamed Prins van Oranje. Sold 1825 and broken up.

Diademe

Builder: LorientBegun: November 1807Launched: 1 December 1811Completed: March 1812Fate: Condemned 1856 and broken up 1868.

Conquérant

Builder: AntwerpBegun: December 1808Launched: 27 April 1812Completed: September 1812Fate: Condemned 1831.

Zélandais

Builder: CherbourgBegun: October 1810Launched: 12 October 1813Completed: March 1814Fate: Condemned 1836 and hulked. Broken up 1858.

Magnifique

Builder: LorientBegun: December 1809Launched: 29 October 1814Completed: November 1814Fate: Condemned 1837.

Centaure

Builder: CherbourgBegun: November 1811Launched: 8 January 1818Completed: April 1818Fate: Renamed Santi Pietri in October 1823. Hulked 1849, burnt by accident 1862.

Neptune (ii)

Builder: LorientBegun: December 1810Launched: 21 March 1818Completed: June 1818Fate: Hulked 1858, broken up 1868.

Algésiras

Builder: LorientBegun: April 1812Launched: 21 August 1823Completed: April 1824Fate: Hulked 1846.

Jupiter

Builder: CherbourgBegun: November 1811Launched: 22 October 1831Completed: September 1833Fate: hulked 1863.

Vesuvio

Builder: Castellammare di StabiaBegun: August 1812Launched: 2 December 1824Completed: 1825Fate: Not launched as French warship; became Neapolitan ship in December 1813.

No other vessels of this design were completed, the following were begun at Antwerp, but taken over in 1814 by the Netherlands, and broken up on the stocks.

Mars

Begun: April 1811

Alexandre

Begun: June 1811

Tibre

Begun: June 1811

Atlas

Begun: September 1811

Fougueux

Begun: July 1812

A further ship to this same design was begun as the Saturno in May 1812 at Venice, and was renamed Ems by the Austrians following their seizure of that city, but was broken up on the stocks in 1818-19. A second ship was ordered at Venice in 1813, but was never laid down. Finally a further ship of this class was ordered in 1812 at Rochefort, but was never laid down or even assigned a name.