Name Superbe Decommissioned 1833 Launched 5 July 1814 | Namesake Superb Laid down 23 August 1809 Construction started 23 August 1809 Weight 2,966 tons | |
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Fate Wrecked in a storm at Paros | ||
Superbe was a Téméraire-class 74-gun ship of the line of the French Navy.
Career
Superbe was built at Antwerp, in a late effort of the First French Empire to replenish its Navy by using all available shipyards. Particularly well-built, to the point of being called the "nicest ship in the Navy", she became the only ship built at Antwerp to survive breaking up after the Bourbon Restoration.
She served in the Caribbean before returning to Brest to be put in the reserve in an inactive state.
In 1830, she took part in the French invasion of Algiers, after which she returned to Toulon to be decommissioned again.
In 1833, she served in the Mediterranean under Captain d'Oysonville. On 15 December, she was caught in a storm off Paros and ran aground at the entrance of Parekia harbour. The survivors returned to Toulon on Iphigénie, Galathée and Duquesne.