The Magnanime class was a class of two 74-gun ships of the line built for France in the late 1770s. They were designed by Jean-Denis Chevillard, and both were constructed at Rochefort Dockyard.
- Builder: Rochefort Dockyard
- Ordered: 1778
- Begun: October 1778
- Launched: 27 August 1779
- Completed: December 1779
- Fate: Decommissioned in 1792 at Brest, broken up in 1793
- Builder: Rochefort Dockyard
- Ordered: 1778 or 1779
- Begun: August 1779
- Launched: 23 February 1781
- Completed: March 1781
- Fate: Renamed Mucius Scévola in January 1791, shortened to Scévola in February 1791, and cut down (raséed) to a 50-gun "heavy" frigate between August 1793 and February 1794. Wrecked in a storm on 16 December 1796 during the attempted invasion of Ireland.
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References
- Winfield, Rif and Roberts, Stephen S. (2017) French Warships in the Age of Sail 1626–1786: Design, Construction, Careers and Fates.. Seaforth Publishing, 2017. ISBN 978-1-4738-9351-1.
- Winfield, Rif and Roberts, Stephen S. (2015) French Warships in the Age of Sail 1786-1861: Design, Construction, Careers and Fates. Seaforth Publishing. ISBN 978-1-84832-204-2.
