Utile was a 56-gun Bordelois-class ship of the line of the French Navy. She was funded by a don des vaisseaux donation from the States of Flander, and built by engineer Léon Guignace on a design by Antoine Groignard. Completed too late to serve in the Seven Years' War, she served in the Mediterranean before becoming a junk in Rochefort.[1]
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| Name | Utile |
| Namesake | "Useful" |
| Builder | Bordeaux[1] |
| Laid down | May 1763[1] |
| Launched | 11 August 1764[1] |
| In service | 18 October 1764[1] |
| Out of service | 1771[1] |
| Fate | Broken up 1793 |
| General characteristics | |
| Displacement | 1,100 tonnes[1] |
| Length | 50.7 m (166 ft 4 in)[1] |
| Beam | 13.8 m (45 ft 3 in)[1] |
| Draught | 6.3 m (20 ft 8 in)[1] |
| Propulsion | Sail, full-rigged ship |
| Complement | 560 men[1] |
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Career
editFrom April to October 1765, Utile campaigned under Captain Duchaffault against privateers off Morocco. She took part in the 1765 Bombardment of Salé and in the Bombardment of Larache.[1]
From 1772, she was reduced to a hulk in Rochfort and used as a masting machine. She was eventually broken up around 1793.[1]
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