Bucentaure

Wrecked

Type	Ship of the line
Rate	Third rate
Guns	80 guns
War	Napoleonic Wars

80-gun ship, Admiral Villeneuve's flagship at Calder's action and Trafalgar, where Victory raked her stern at close range and she struck. Her prize crew lost her in the storm; she was wrecked off Cádiz.

French ship Bucentaure. Anonymous watercolour made at the request of Bucentaure's captain, Captain Jean-Jacques Magendie. Frigate in the back reported to be a Africa, to be verified. Photo: AnonymousUnknown author, Public domain · Wikimedia Commons

Armament and specifications

Armament

86 guns
30 × 36-pounders
32 × 24-pounders
18 × 12-pounders
6 × 36-pounder howitzers

Builder	Arsenal de Toulon
Laid down	1802
Launched	14 July 1803
Commissioned	1804
Displacement	3,868 tonneaux
Length	51 m (167 ft 4 in) (keel) 59.26 m (194 ft 5 in) (gundeck)
Complement	840

As built, from the ship's Wikipedia article. Figures there may cover later refits too.

Career

Launched

14 July 1803

Battle of Cape Finisterre (Calder's Action)

Survived

22 July 1805

Villeneuve's flagship

Battle of Trafalgar

Wrecked

21 October 1805

Villeneuve's flagship; struck, then wrecked in the storm