Magnanime class ship of the line

The Magnanime class was a class of two 74-gun ships of the line built for France in the late 1770s. They were designed by Jean-Denis Chevillard, and both were constructed at Rochefort Dockyard.

Magnanime

Builder: Rochefort DockyardOrdered: 1778Begun: October 1778Launched: 27 August 1779Completed: December 1779Fate: Decommissioned in 1792 at Brest, broken up in 1793

Illustre

Builder: Rochefort DockyardOrdered: 1778 or 1779Begun: August 1779Launched: 23 February 1781Completed: March 1781Fate: Renamed Mucius Scévola in January 1791, shortened to Scévola in February 1791, and cut down (raséed) to a 50-gun "heavy" frigate between August 1793 and February 1794. Wrecked in a storm on 16 December 1796 during the attempted invasion of Ireland.