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Raisonnable

HMS Raisonnable

Survived

Royal Navy

TypeShip of the line
RateThird rate
Guns64
WarsAmerican War of Independence, French Revolutionary Wars, Napoleonic Wars

64-gun ship, Sir George Collier's flagship when he relieved the fort on the Penobscot. Nelson had first gone to sea in her, as a boy of twelve. At Calder's action in 1805; broken up in 1815.

Ardent (1764); Raisonnable (1768) [alternative spelling: Raisonable] Scale: 1:48. Plan showing the body plan, sheer lines with quarter gallery decoration, and longitudinal half-breadth proposed (and approved) for building Ardent (1764) at Hull, and later for Raisonnable (1768), both 64-gun Third Rat Photo: Unknown authorUnknown author, Public domain · Wikimedia Commons

Armament and specifications

Armament

64 guns

  • Gundeck: 26 × 24 pdrs
  • Upper gundeck: 26 × 18 pdrs
  • Quarterdeck: 10 × 4 pdrs
  • Forecastle: 2 × 9 pdrs
BuilderChatham Dockyard
Laid down25 November 1765
Launched10 December 1768
Length160 ft (49 m) (gundeck)
Complement500 officers and men

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

Career

Launched

10 December 1768

Penobscot Expedition
Survived

25 July – 15 August 1779 · American War of Independence

Collier's flagship

Battle of Cape Spartel
Survived

20 October 1782 · American War of Independence

Battle of Copenhagen
Survived

2 April 1801 · French Revolutionary Wars

In reserve

Battle of Cape Finisterre (Calder's Action)
Survived

22 July 1805 · Napoleonic Wars

Fate

Survived

Broken up, 1815