French ship Ferme (1763)

	Watercolour portrait of sister-ship Flamand, by François Roux, commissioned by Willaumez
History
France
Name:	Ferme
Namesake:	Ferme générale
Builder:	Bordeaux[1]
Laid down:	August 1762[1]
Launched:	10 October 1763[1]
In service:	20 November 1763[1]
Out of service:	August 1774[1]
History
Ottoman Empire
Owner:	Ottoman Navy
General characteristics
Displacement:	1100 tonnes[1]
Length:	50.7 metres[1]
Beam:	13.8 metres[1]
Draught:	6.3 metres[1]
Propulsion:	Sail, full-rigged ship
Complement:	560 men[1]
Armament:	56 guns:; 24 36-pounder long guns; 26 18-pounder long guns; 6 8-pounder long guns[1];
Armour:	Timber

The Ferme was a 56-gun Bordelois-class ship of the line of the French Navy. She was funded by a don des vaisseaux donation from the Ferme Générale, and built by engineer Léon Guignace on a design by Antoine Groignard.[1] Complete too late to serve in the Seven Years' War, she was sold to the Ottoman Empire and recommissioned in the Ottoman Navy.[1]

Notes and references

Roche, Jean-Michel (2005). Dictionnaire des bâtiments de la flotte de guerre française de Colbert à nos jours, 1671 - 1870. Group Retozel-Maury Millau. p. 198. ISBN 978-2-9525917-0-6. OCLC 165892922.

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