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.

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2 produced, 
ship of the line, French Navy, Toulon, 
Cornélie, Jurien de la Gravière, 

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