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Glorieux

Captured

French Navy, then Royal Navy

Type	Ship of the line
Rate	Third rate
Guns	74 guns
Wars	Seven Years' War, American War of Independence

Service

1756–1782	Glorieux	France
from 1782	Glorieux Captured at the Saintes	Britain

74-gun ship, at Fort Royal, the Chesapeake and St Kitts. Captured at the Saintes, she went down with all hands in the hurricane off the Grand Banks in September 1782.

Plate IV. A View of the Sea on the Morning after the Storm, with the distressed situation of the Centaur, Ville de Paris and the Glorieux as seen from the Lady Juliana, the Ville de Paris passing to Windward under close reef'd Topsails Print Plate IV. A View of the Sea on the Morning after the Storm Photo: John Harris; Robert Dodd; Robert Sayer and John Bennett, Public domain · Wikimedia Commons

Armament and specifications

Armament

Gundeck: 28 × 32-pounder guns
Upper gundeck: 28 × 18-pounder guns
QD: 14 × 9-pounder guns
Fc: 4 × 9-pounder guns

Launched	10 August 1756
Commissioned	13 April 1782
Displacement	2765 tonneaux
Length	175 ft (53 m)
Complement	600

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

Career

Launched

10 August 1756

Battle of Quiberon Bay

Escaped

20 November 1759 · Seven Years' War

Escaped into the Vilaine

First Battle of Ushant

Survived

27 July 1778 · American War of Independence

Beausset's flagship

Battle of Fort Royal

Survived

29 April 1781 · American War of Independence

Battle of the Chesapeake

Survived

5 September 1781 · American War of Independence

Left to guard the mouth of the bay; not in the line

Battle of St Kitts (Frigate Bay)

Survived

25–26 January 1782 · American War of Independence

Battle of the Saintes

Captured

12 April 1782 · American War of Independence

Dismasted between Duke and Formidable

Joined the Royal Navy

1782 · Captured at the Saintes

Fate

Captured

Foundered in a hurricane on 18 September 1782