French ship Royal Duc (1668)

Royal Duc was a 104-gun ship of the line of the French Royal Navy. She was built at Brest Dockyard, designed and constructed by Laurent Hubac. Her name was altered to Reine on 24 June 1671. She took part in the two Battles of Schooneveldt on 7 and 13 June 1671 (N.S.) and the Battle of Texel on 21 August 1673, each time as flagship of Vice-Admiral Jean d'Estrées. She was condemned in April 1688, and broken up in the following month.

Portrait of Reine by Willem van de Velde the Younger
History
France
Name: Royal Duc
Builder: Laurent Hubac, in Brest Dockyard
Laid down: October 1667
Launched: December 1668
Completed: March 1669
Out of service: November 1699
Renamed: Reine on 24 June 1671
Stricken: Taken to pieces in May 1688
General characteristics
Class and type: ship of the line
Tonnage: 1,900 tons
Length: 155 French feet[1]
Beam: 42 French feet
Draught: 22 French feet 10 inches
Depth of hold: 19½ French feet
Decks: 3 gun decks
Complement: 750, +9 officers
Armament:
Armour: Timber

Sources and 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.
  1. The (pre-metric) French foot was 6.575% longer than the equivalent English foot.


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