French ship Conquérant (1746)

	Conquérant at the Battle of Cape Henry
History
France
Name	Conquérant
Namesake	"Conqueror"
Ordered	5 March 1743
Builder	Toulon
Laid down	February 1745
Launched	10 March 1746
In service	January 1747
Captured	2 August 1798
Great Britain
Name	Conquerant
Acquired	2 August 1798
Fate	Broken up January 1803 Plymouth
General characteristics
Class and type	Citoyen class ship of the line
Displacement	1500 tonnes
Length	55.1 m (181 ft)
Beam	14.1 m (46 ft)
Draught	6.8 m (22 ft)
Propulsion	Sail
Armament	74 guns:; Lower battery: 28 × 36-pounders; Upper battery: 30 × 18-pounders; Forecastle and quarterdeck: 16 × 8-pounders;
Armour	Timber

The Conquérant was originally designed and built by François Coulomb the Younger at Toulon from 1745 to 1747, as a modified version of the same constructor's Terrible built at the same dockyard in 1736-40. In need of major repairs by early 1755, she was not employed throughout the Seven Years' War, after which she was formally taken out of service on 17 March 1764 and was rebuilt by Joseph-Louis Ollivier at Brest from January to December 1765 as a Citoyen-class 74-gun ship of the line of the French Navy.

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