French ship La Couronne (1749)

For other ships with the same name, see French ship La Couronne.

La Couronne was a 74-gun ship of the line of the French Navy.

History
France
Name	La Couronne
Builder	Rochefort
Laid down	May 1748
Launched	1749
Fate	Condemned in 1766 and broken up
General characteristics
Displacement	1,400 tonnes
Length	54.2 m (177 ft 10 in)
Beam	14.3 m (46 ft 11 in)
Draught	7.1 m (23 ft 4 in)
Complement	600
Armament	80 guns: 28 × 36-pounder long guns 30 × 18-pounder long guns 18 × 8-pounder long guns

She was built at Rochefort, being launched in 1749 and completed the following year. She served until being condemned at Brest and was broken up in 1766. Some of her timbers may have gone towards the construction of her namesake, the 80-gun Saint-Esprit-class La Couronne, launched in August that year from Brest.

References

• Roche, Jean-Michel (2005). Dictionnaire des bâtiments de la flotte de guerre française de Colbert à nos jours 1 1671–1870. p. 132. ISBN 978-2-9525917-0-6. OCLC 165892922.