Name Alcide Builder Brest Naval Dockyard Commissioned 1744 Launched 1742 Beam 12 m | Ordered October 1741 Laid down March 1742 Construction started March 1742 Length 45 m | |
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Captured 8 June 1755, by Royal Navy | ||
Alcide was a 64-gun ship of the line of the French Navy, launched in 1742. The captain of the vessel was Toussaint Hocquart, for the re-enforcement campaign that was sent to Canada in May 1755.
On 8 June 1755, Alcide was captured by HMS Dunkirk and HMS Torbay of Vice-Admiral Edward Boscawen's squadron, and commissioned into the Royal Navy in 1757 as the Third rate HMS Alcide.
HMS Alcide was sold out of the navy in May 1772. However, it perhaps remained in service in some form because on 10 July 1772 according to the UK, Register of Duties Paid for Apprentices' Indentures, 1710-1811, Robert Mellefent was apprenticed as a carpenter to Ebenezer Holland to serve on the ship.
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