French ship Magnanime (1803)

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

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

Magnanime towing Commerce de Paris, by Ange-Joseph Antoine Roux, 1809.
History
France
Name	Magnanime
Builder	Rochefort
Laid down	June 1802
Launched	18 August 1803
Decommissioned	1816
Fate	Broken up 1820
General characteristics
Class and type	Téméraire-class ship of the line
Displacement	2,966 tonnes 5,260 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

Magnanime at the burning of Rousseau on 22 February 1805

Her keel was laid in June 1802, and she was launched in Rochefort on 18 August 1803.

Magnanime aided by Armide captures HMS Calcutta on 26 September 1805

She took part in Allemand's expedition of 1805 under Captain Pierre-Francois Violette. On 26 September 1805, flanked by Armide, she attacked and captured HMS Calcutta.

She was decommissioned in 1816.

See also

• List of ships of the line of France

References

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