French ship Royal Louis (1743)

Royal Louis was a First Rank ship of the line of the French Royal Navy, but was never completed. Launch was scheduled to be in 1743, but on 25 December 1742 she was set alight while still on the stocks, and burnt. It was claimed that this was an act of sabotage by a Señor Pontleau, who was tried and executed for the offence.[2]

For other ships with the same name, see French ship Royal Louis.
Decorations of Royal Louis
History
France
Namesake: Louis of France
Builder: Brest Dockyard
Laid down: 13 March 1740
Launched: (not launched)
General characteristics
Class and type: First Rank ship of the line
Tonnage: 3,000
Displacement: 4,834
Length: 185 French feet
Beam: 50 French feet 8 inches
Draught: 23¼ - 24¾ French feet (estimated)[1]
Depth of hold: 22 French feet 2 inches
Decks: 3 gun decks
Complement: 1,200 (intended, wartime) + 18 officers
Armament:
  • 118 guns (intended)
  • 32 x 36-pounder guns on lower deck
  • 34 x 24-pounder guns on middle deck
  • 34 x 12-pounder guns on upper deck
  • 18 x 8-pounder guns on quarterdeck and forecastle
Armour: timber

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 navires français de 1715 á 1774. Alain Demerliac (Editions Omega, Nice – 1995). ISBN 2-906381-19-5.
  • 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 French pre-metric foot was 6.575% longer than the equivalent English foot.
  2. Old Ship Figure-Heads and Sterns, L. G. Carr Laughton, 2001, p121.


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