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French ship Tourville (1788)

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Name
  
Tourville

Laid down
  
1 June 1787

Decommissioned
  
26 October 1833

Launched
  
16 September 1788

Weight
  
1,966 tons

Builder
  
Lorient

Commissioned
  
July 1790

Construction started
  
1 June 1787

Length
  
56 m

Beam
  
15 m

Namesake
  
Anne Hilarion de Tourville

The Tourville was a Téméraire class 74-gun ship of the line of the French Navy.

In August 1793, she was damaged by a tempest, which also killed her captain, and had to return to Brest. In September, a mutiny broke out aboard.

She took part in the Bataille du 13 prairial an 2, to the Expédition d'Irlande, and to the Cruise of Bruix.

She was eventually broken up in Brest in 1841.

References

French ship Tourville (1788) Wikipedia