Namesake Louis of France Completed 1670 Length 53 m Beam 14 m | Laid down 1666 Out of service 1694 Construction started 1666 Builder Toulon | |
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Class and type First-rate ship of the line Armament 118 guns
30 36-pounder long guns
30 18-pounder long guns
32 12-pounder long guns
26 6-pounder long guns | ||
The Royal Louis was a ship of the line of the French Royal Navy. She was constructed at Toulon between 1666 and 1670 under the direction of Rodolphe Gédéon and served as flagship of the French fleet in the Mediterranean. She was sold in 1694.
On his visit to Toulon in 1683, the English naval engineer Edmund Dummer described the Royal Louis as "a great ship and glorious in her first carving, no doubt; but to my judgment not of good proportion, nor good workmanship, her figure under water I know not, nor is that above to be admired".
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French ship Royal Louis (1668) Wikipedia(Text) CC BY-SA