French ship Utile (1764)

The Utile 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 States of Flander, and built by engineer Léon Guignace on a design by Antoine Groignard. Completed too late to serve in the Seven Years' War, she served in the Mediterranean before becoming a junk in Rochefort.[1]

Watercolour portrait of sister-ship Flamand, by François Roux, commissioned by Willaumez
History
France
Name: Utile
Namesake: "Useful"
Builder: Bordeaux[1]
Laid down: May 1763[1]
Launched: 11 August 1745[1]
In service: 18 October 1764[1]
Out of service: 1771[1]
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:
Armour: Timber

Career

From April to October 1765, Utile campaigned under Captain Duchaffault against privateers off Morocco. She took part in the 1765 Bombardment of Salé and in the Bombardment of Larache.[1]

From 1772, she was reduced to a hulk in Rochfort and used as a masting machine. She was eventually broken up around 1793.[1]

Notes and references

Notes

    References
    1. 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. 453. ISBN 978-2-9525917-0-6. OCLC 165892922.


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