French ship Sceptre (1780)

History
France
Name	Sceptre
Namesake	Sceptre; National Convention; Battle of Marengo;
Builder	Brest
Laid down	25 May 1780
Launched	21 September 1780
Commissioned	October 1780
Decommissioned	1802
Renamed	Convention, 29 September 1792; Marengo, August 1800;
Fate	Hulked, 1802.; Broken up, 1811.;
General characteristics
Type	Vaisseau de 2e rang; ("Ship of the 2nd Rate");
Tonnage	1,630 tonnes
Length	55.55 metres (182.3 ft) (171 pied)
Beam	14.3 metres (47 ft) (44 pied)
Depth	7 metres (23 ft) (21.6 pied)
Propulsion	Sail
Complement	750 men
Armament	74 guns:; 28 × 36-pounder long guns; 30 × 18-pounder long guns; 16 × 8-pounder long guns;
Armour	Timber

Sceptre was a 74-gun ship of the line of the French Navy. Built under the Ancien Régime, she took part in the naval operations in the American Revolutionary War. At the Revolution, she took part in the main actions of the French Revolutionary Wars, notably the so-called Glorious First of June and in Bruix' expedition of 1799. Showing her age by the rise of the First French Empire, she was hulked and eventually broken up.

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