Queen Charlotte engaged two French vessels Montagne and Jacobin. A French battle fleet sailed from Brest to provide protection for the French convoy. Involved in the 'Battle of the Glorious First of June 1794' when 32 English ships of the line were charged to intercept a French grain fleet from North America. Queen Charlotte: HMS Queen Charlotte First Rate 2,279 bm tons Comp.: 850 Armament: 30x32pdr, 28x24pdr, 42x12pdr Chatham Dockyard, England 1790 HMS Swiftsure and HMS Alexander finished her off and L'Orient blew apart when her magazine exploded. L'Orient valiantly fought off the 74-gun Bellerophon but ended up ablaze with Brueys and Captain Louis de Casablanca both mortally wounded. On August first of that year, Rear Admiral Horatio Nelson caught up with the armada in the Nile delta and the Battle of the Nile ensued. L'Orient was the flagship of the French armada under command of Vice Admiral François Paul Brueys d'Aiguïlliers bound for Egypt in 1798. She was again renamed in 1795 to her most well known name: L'Orient. Launched in 1791 as ' Dauphin Royal' she was renamed Sans-Culotte during the French Revolution since her name was an obvious affront to any self respecting French revolutionary. Orient: L'Orient First Rate Length: 197 pied Beam: 50 pied Draft: 25 pied Armament: 120 guns Toulon, France 1791 She saw regular action against the French and in 1545, while manoeuvering off Portsmouth during one such encounter, the Mary Rose sharply heeled, rapidly took on water and sank. She was rebuilt in 1536, increasing her size to 700 tons burthen and her armament to 91 guns, including culverins, demi-culverins, sakers and falcons. Henry VIII's flagship was one of the first purpose-built warships with cannons firing through gun ports. Mary Rose: Carrack Length: 32 m (keel) Beam: 4.6 m 600 tons burthen Comp.: 415 Armament: 78 Guns Portsmouth Dockyard, England 1510 She never took in sail, heeled sharply to port, took on water and sank shortly thereafter. She befell a similar fate as the Wasa, when her crew failed to close her lower gunports in time when turning to engage a combined Danish and Dutch fleet in 1676 during the battle of Öland. Sweden's first three-decked warship, she became the Swedish Navy's flagship in 1675. Kronan: First Rate ship-of-the-line 2,140 displacement tons Crew: 500 Armament: 126 guns Stockholm, Sweden 1672 Later she was reduced to act as a receiving ship in Rio de Janeiro and finally was sold out of the British Navy in 1875. The fifth ship of the Royal Navy named Egmont served as flagship of Rear-Admiral Charles Vinnicombe Penrose in 1814. Neither La Salle, nor his ship Belle would survive the unfortunate and plagued venture.Įgmont: HMS Egmont Third Rate ship-of-the-line Length: 176 ft Beam: 48 ft Draft : 17 ft 1760 tons Comp: 590 Armament: 74 guns Northfleet Dockyard, England 1810 Robert Cavalier Sieur de La Salle's flagship on his disastrous 1684 expedition to establish a French colony near the mouth of the Mississippi. She was rebuilt in 1608, renamed Anne Royal and finally broken up in 1636, 49 years after coming off the docks.īelle: Barque Longue Length: 15.5 m Beam: 4.3 m 47 tons Comp.: 26 Armament: 6 guns Rochefort, France 1684 The Ark Royal saw action as flagship of the English fleet during the Spanish Armada of July 1588. Search result for any reference to: flagshipĪdvance: Brigantine Length: 88 ft Beam: 21 ft 10 in Depth in Hold: 8 ft 5 in 144 tons Comp.: 17 New Kent, Maryland, United States 1847Īdvance was the flagship of the first US arctic expedition and search for HMS Erebus and HMS Terror in 1850.Īrk Royal: 690 tons Armament: 38 guns Deptford, England 1587 text containing - finds any partial match i.e. any reference to - finds any word match i.e. For an alphabetical ship listing selectĢ.
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