French ship Bizarre (1692)

The Bizarre was a second rank two-decker ship of the line of the French Royal Navy. She was armed with 68 guns, comprising twenty-six 24-pounder guns on the lower deck and twenty-eight 12-pounder guns on the upper deck, with eight 6-pounder guns on the quarterdeck and six 6-pounder guns on the forecastle.

For other ships with the same name, see French ship Bizarre.
History
France
Name: Bizarre
Owner: 1691
Builder: Bayonne
Laid down: May 1691
Launched: Autumn 1692
Commissioned: May 1693
Fate: Taken to pieces in December 1727
General characteristics
Length:

145 French feet 4 inches[1] (gundeck)

124½ French feet (keel)
Beam: 39½ French feet
Draught: 24½ French feet
Draft: 18 French feet
Depth of hold: 16 French feet 8 inches
Complement: 400 men (320 in peacetime), + 8 officers
Armament: 68 guns

Designed and built under contract by Félix Arnaud, she was begun at Bayonne in May 1691. She was launched in the autumn of 1692 and completed in May 1693.

The Bizarre took part in the Battle of Lagos on 28 June 1693. In July 1707 she was scuttled at Toulon to avoid capture by the English and Dutch squadron during the attack on that port, but was refloated. unserviceable by 1718, she was retained at Toulon until 1727 when she was taken to pieces by the end of that year.

Notes and citations
  1. The French (pre-metric) foot and inch were 6.575% longer than the equivalent English foot and inch.

References
  • Roche, Jean-Michel (2005). Dictionnaire des bâtiments de la flotte de guerre française de Colbert à nos jours 1 1671 - 1870. p. 223. ISBN 978-2-9525917-0-6. OCLC 165892922.
  • Nomenclature des Vaisseaux du Roi-Soleil de 1661 a 1715. Alain Demerliac (Editions Omega, Nice – various dates).
  • The Sun King's Vessels (2015) - Jean-Claude Lemineur; English translation by François Fougerat. Editions ANCRE. ISBN 978-2903179885
  • Winfield, Rif and Roberts, Stephen (2017) French Warships in the Age of Sail 1626-1786: Design, Construction, Careers and Fates. Seaforth Publishing. ISBN 978-1-4738-9351-1.
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