French_ship_Alcide_(1742)

French ship <i>Alcide</i> (1743)

French ship Alcide (1743)

Ship of the line of the French Navy

For other ships with the same name, see French ship Alcide and HMS Alcide.

Alcide was a 64-gun ship of the line of the French Navy, launched in 1742. The captain of the vessel was Toussaint Hocquart, for the re-enforcement campaign that was sent to Canada in May 1755.

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On 8 June 1755, Alcide was captured by HMS Dunkirk and HMS Torbay of Vice-Admiral Edward Boscawen's squadron, and commissioned into the Royal Navy in 1757 as the third-rate HMS Alcide.

HMS Alcide was sold out of the navy in May 1772. However, it perhaps remained in service in some form because on 10 July 1772 according to the UK, Register of Duties Paid for Apprentices' Indentures, 1710–1811, Robert Mellefent was apprenticed as a carpenter to Ebenezer Holland to serve on the ship.[2]

Shown here as a member Sir George Pocock's Blue Squadron, circa 1762
Plan of Alcide
Another plan of Alcide

See also

Citations

  1. [1]
    Lavery, Ships of the Line, vol. 1, p. 178.
  2. [2]
    Pichon's Lettres et Memories sure Cap Breton, p. 248

References

  • Lavery, Brian, The Ship of the Line – Volume 1: The development of the battlefleet 1650–1850. Conway Maritime Press, 2003. ISBN 0-85177-252-8.
  • Winfield, Rif, British Warships in the Age of Sail, 1714–1792: Design, Construction, Careers and Fates. Seaforth Publishing, 2007. ISBN 978-1-84415-700-6.


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