Magnifique-class ship of the line

The Magnifique class was a class of three 74-gun ships of the line, designed and built by Jacques-Luc Coulomb.


 * Magnifique
 * Builder: Brest Dockyard
 * Laid down: 1747
 * Launched: 7 March 1750
 * Completed July 1750
 * Fate: 10 August 1782, Grounded on sandbar off Lovells Island, Boston, MA, USA


 * Entreprenant
 * Builder: Brest Dockyard
 * Laid down: 1750
 * Launched: 19 October 1751
 * Completed: December 1752
 * Fate: Set on fire by British mortar attack at Louisbourg on 21 July 1758 and blew up.


 * Guerrier
 * Builder: Toulon
 * Ordered: 18 September 1750
 * Laid down: October 1750
 * Launched: 7 September 1753
 * Completed: early 1754.
 * Fate: Captured by the British at the Battle of the Nile, 2 August 1798, and then burnt.