French ship Tourville (1788)

	Tourville (left) raking HMS Defence (centre) at the Battle of Prairial, while Mucius Scævola (right) duels with her on her port side. Painting by Nicholas Pocock
History
France
Name	Tourville
Namesake	Anne Hilarion de Tourville
Builder	Lorient
Laid down	1 June 1787
Launched	16 September 1788
Commissioned	July 1790
Decommissioned	26 October 1833
Fate	Broken up in Brest in 1841
General characteristics
Class and type	Téméraire-class ship of the line
Displacement	1,966 tonnes; 3,260 tonnes fully loaded;
Length	55.87 metres (183.3 ft) (172 pied)
Beam	14.90 metres (48 ft 11 in)
Draught	7.26 metres (23.8 ft) (22 pied)
Propulsion	Up to 2,485 m2 (26,750 sq ft) of sails
Armament	74 guns:; Lower gundeck: 28 × 36-pounder long guns; Upper gundeck: 30 × 18-pounder long guns; Forecastle and Quarter deck:; 16 × 8-pounder long guns; 4 × 36-pounder carronades;
Armour	Timber

Tourville was a Téméraire-class 74-gun ship of the line of the French Navy.

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