Name Citoyen Ordered May 1757 Laid down July 1761 Construction started July 1761 Length 55 m Displacement 1.5 million kg Beam 14 m | Namesake "Citizen" Builder Brest In service December 1764 Launched 27 August 1764 Weight 1,500 tons Draft 6.8 m | |
The Citoyen was a 74-gun ship of the line of the French Navy, lead ship of her class. She was funded by a don des vaisseaux donation from the bankers and General Treasurers of the Army.
Ordered in May 1757 as Cimeterre, the ship was renamed Citoyen on 20 January 1762. A launching attempt aborted on 10 August 1764, when she came to a halt on the ramp, and she was eventually set afloat 17 days later.
She took part in the Battle of Martinique (1780). In 1781, under Captain de Thy, she was appointed to the squadron of Admiral de Grasse and took part in the Battle of Fort Royal in April. On 24 August, along with Glorieux, she captured HMS Cormorant off Charleston. In September, she took part in the Battle of the Chesapeake.
In 1783, she was decommissioned, and was eventually broken up in 1791.