HMXMS Vengeur, 64

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Details

Nationality	French
Ordered
Started	1765	b086
Named	1765	b086
Launched	1767	b086
Shipyard	Lorient	b086
Plans
Constructor
Decks	2
Rate	4th Rates
Class
System
Crew	500	s02
In Service	1767	b086
Out Service	1785	b086
Fate	??	b086

 

Dimensions

Units	Length	Keel	Beam	Depth	Draught	Weight	Displacement	Source
French ft.	l (m.)	k (m.)	b (m.)	d (m.)	d (m.)	w (Tn.)	D (Tn.)

 

Armament

Guns	Date	#	lbs	#	lbs	#	lbs	#	lbs	Fires	Source
64	1767	LGD	lbs	MGD	lbs	UGD	lbs	C+FC	lbs	lbs (Kg.)

Commanders

Service Record

Actions & Battles

Notes

(1) With the squadron of the white and blue, under the count Duchaffault, lieutenant general des armées navales.

(2) During the night from 27th to 28th of September 1778, the count d'Amblimont heard at about 20 guns shots and chased to the direction. At dawn, the 28th, he discovered the "Saint Pierre of Liverpool" a corsair armed with 22 guns. This ship had taken a 800 tonneaux merchant ship, arriving from east indies. Monsieur d'Amblimont took the two and went to l'Orient.

(3) Under Comte d'Estaing, Vice Amiral commanding the fleet (24 ships of the line).

(4) The Chevalier de Retz was wounded in the action

(5) As arriving near Fort-Royal of la Martinique, a convoy, accompanied by the French frigate Aurore is chased by 14 enemy ships of the line. With only 3 ships of the line (Annibal, Vengeur, Réfléchi – all of 64), La Motte-Piquet sails from the harbor (his broad pennant on the Annibal)and engages 7 british ships, while the rest of the english ships chases the convoy. La Motte-Piquet could not prevent them to take some vessels of the convoy.

(6) battle opposing the French fleet under the Count de Guichen, Lieutenant Général des Armées Navales to the Admiral George Brydges Rodney. The Vengeur was part of the white and blue squadron commanded by the count de Sades, chef d'escadre;

(7) Same forces with an reinforcement for the French side (5 frigates and a corvette)

(8) Same forces as the second one)

Sources

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b086

Kerguelen

Journal de bord du Bailly de Suffren dans l'Inde