Guerrier at the Battle of Minorca (1756)
History
France
Name	Guerrier
Namesake	"Warrior"
Ordered	18 September 1750
Builder	Toulon
Laid down	3 September 1750
Launched	9 September 1753
In service	January 1754
Captured	2 August 1798
Fate	Burnt by the British after the Battle of the Nile
General characteristics
Class and type	Magnifique class ship of the line
Displacement	1500 tonnes
Length	53.6 m (176 ft)
Beam	14 m (46 ft)
Draught	6.6 m (22 ft)
Propulsion	Sail
Complement	678 men
Armament	74 guns
Armour	Timber

The Guerrier was a Magnifique class 74-gun ship of the line of the French Navy .

She took part in the Battle of Minorca (1756) and in the Battle of Lagos . She was part of Bougainville 's squadron for the Naval operations in the American Revolutionary War , and took part in the operations before the Battle of Rhode Island , in the Battle of Grenada , and in the siege of Savannah .

In July 1781, she took part in the Invasion of Minorca . On 9 August, she captured the 700-tonne HMS Scarborough .

By the time of the invasion of Egypt, Guerrier should have been decommissioned for two years, ^[1] but was nevertheless incorporated in the invasion fleet. She took part in the Battle of the Nile , where she was captured by the British. She was so badly damaged that she was burnt.

See also [ edit ]

• List of ships captured in the 19th century

Citations [ edit ]

References [ edit ]

• Roche, Jean-Michel (2005). Dictionnaire des batiments de la flotte de guerre francaise de Colbert a nos jours 1 1671 - 1870 . p. 234. ISBN   978-2-9525917-0-6 . OCLC   165892922 .

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