French ship Raisonnable (1755)

Raisonnable was a 64-gun ship of the line of the French Navy, launched in 1755.

For other ships with the same name, see French ship Raisonnable and HMS Raisonnable.

Raisonnable
History
France
Name: Raisonnable
Launched: 1755
Captured: 29 May 1758, by Royal Navy
Great Britain
Name: Raisonnable
Acquired: 29 May 1758
Fate: Lost, 3 February 1762
General characteristics
Class and type: 28-gun third-rate ship of the line
Tons burthen: 1326 ​80⁄94 bm
Length:
  • 159 ft 2 in (48.5 m) (gun deck)
  • 129 ft 7 in (39.5 m) (keel)
Beam: 43 ft 10 in (13.4 m)
Depth of hold: 19 ft 6.75 in (5.96 m)
Sail plan: Full-rigged ship
Complement: 500
Armament:
  • 64 guns comprising:
  • Upper deck: 28 x 12-pounder guns
  • Lower deck: 28 × 12-pounder guns
  • Quarterdeck: 4 × 6-pounder guns
  • Forecastle: 4 x 6-pounder guns
  • 12 × ½-pdr swivel guns

On 29 May 1758 she was captured in the Bay of Biscay by HMS Dorsetshire and HMS Achilles at the Action of 29 April 1758. Commissioned into the Royal Navy in 1759 under Captain John Montagu, she served in the Leeward islands until 3 February 1762 when she grounded and was wrecked on a reef off the port of Martinique.[1]

See also

Notes
  1. Winfield 2007, p.95

References
  • Winfield, Rif (2007). British Warships of the Age of Sail 1714–1792: Design, Construction, Careers and Fates. Barnsley, United Kingdom: Seaforth. ISBN 9781844157006.



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