• Source: Citoyen-class ship of the line

    • The Citoyen class consisted of four 74-gun ships of the line all built at Brest Naval Dockyard to a design by Joseph-Louis Ollivier. The first ship (Citoyen, originally to have been named Cimeterre) was newly built there from 1761 to 1764, and the other three were rebuilt to her design from earlier ships.

    Citoyen
    Built at: Brest
    Keel laid: July 1761
    Launched: 27 August 1764
    Completed: December 1764
    Fate: decommissioned in 1783 and taken to pieces in 1792
    Conquérant
    Originally built at: Toulon
    Ordered: 5 March 1743
    Originally launched: 9 March 1746
    Rebuilt: from January 1765 at Brest to the draught of the Citoyen, re-launched 29 November 1765 and completed in December 1765
    Fate: Condemned in May 1796 but put back into service in March 1798, captured by the British on 2 August 1798 at the Battle of the Nile, broken up in Plymouth in January 1803
    Palmier
    Originally built at: Brest
    Keel laid: November 1750
    Originally launched 21 July 1752
    Rebuilt: from 23 May 1766 at Brest to the draught of the Citoyen, re-launched in December 1766 and completed in the same month
    Fate: Rebuilt again at Brest in 1776. Abandoned and foundered off Bermuda in the Atlantic Ocean on 24 October 1782
    Actif
    Originally built at: Brest (as a 64-gun ship)
    Keel laid: 1750
    Originally launched: 15 December 1752
    Rebuilt at: from April 1767 at Brest to the draught of the Citoyen, re-launched on 5 October 1767 and completed in April 1768
    Fate: Rebuilt again at Brest in 1774. Condemned in August 1783, sold 1784


    Sources and references


    Demerliac, Alain (1995). La Marine de Louis XV - Nomenclature des navires francais de 1715 à 1774. pp. 39–41. ISBN 2-906381-19-5.
    Winfield, Rif and Roberts, Stephen S., French Warships in the Age of Sail 1626-1786: Design, Construction, Careers and Fates. (Seaforth Publishing, 2017) ISBN 978-1-4738-9351-1.

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