Magnanime-class ship of the line

The Magnanime class was a class of two 74-gun ships of the line built for France in the late 1770s. They were designed by Jean-Denis Chevillard, and both were constructed at Rochefort Dockyard.


 * Magnanime
 * Builder: Rochefort Dockyard
 * Ordered: 1778
 * Begun: October 1778
 * Launched: 27 August 1779
 * Completed: December 1779
 * Fate: Decommissioned in 1792 at Brest, broken up in 1793


 * Illustre
 * Builder: Rochefort Dockyard
 * Ordered: 1778 or 1779
 * Begun: August 1779
 * Launched: 23 February 1781
 * Completed: March 1781
 * Fate: Renamed Mucius Scévola in January 1791, shortened to Scévola in February 1791, and cut down (raséed) to a 50-gun "heavy" frigate between August 1793 and February 1794. Wrecked in a storm on 16 December 1796 during the attempted invasion of Ireland.