Name Borée Builder Lorient Commissioned August 1787 Construction started January 1783 Weight 1,966 tons | Namesake Boreas Laid down January 1783 Decommissioned 1803 Launched 17 November 1785 | |
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Borée was a Téméraire class 74-gun ship of the line of the French Navy.
Career
In 1790, she joined the Brest squadron. Between May 1792 and January 1793, under Captain de Grimouard, she escorted a convoy from Saint Domingue to Rochefort, before being decommissioned.
On 12 April 1794, she was ordered razeed into a 50-gun frigate and renamed Ça Ira. Two months later, she was again renamed to Agricola. Recommissioned on 24 June, she served for two years before being hulked in Rochefort and used as a hospital.
She was eventually broken up in 1803
References
French ship Borée (1785) Wikipedia(Text) CC BY-SA