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French ship <i>Magnanime</i> (1803)

French ship Magnanime (1803)

Ship of the line of the French Navy

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.

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Magnanime at the burning of Rousseau on 22 February 1805[2]

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

Citations

  1. [1]
    Clouet, Alain (2007). "La marine de Napoléon III : classe Téméraire – caractéristiques". dossiersmarine.free.fr (in French). Archived from the original on 23 March 2013. Retrieved 4 April 2013.
  2. [2]
    Marley, David F. (11 February 2008). Wars of the Americas: A Chronology of Armed Conflict in the Western Hemisphere, 2nd Edition [2 volumes]: A Chronology of Armed Conflict in the Western Hemisphere. ISBN 9781598841015.

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