French_ship_Tourville_(1788)

French ship <i>Tourville</i> (1788)

French ship Tourville (1788)

Ship of the line of the French Navy

For other ships with the same name, see French ship Tourville.

Tourville was a Téméraire-class 74-gun ship of the line of the French Navy.

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Career

In 1790, she was under Armand de Saint-Félix.[1]

In August 1793, she was damaged by a tempest, which also killed her captain, and had to return to Brest. In September, a mutiny broke out aboard. She took part in the Bataille du 13 prairial an 2, to the Expédition d'Irlande, and to the Cruise of Bruix. She was eventually broken up in Brest in 1841.

Citations

  1. [1]
    Levot, p.468—469

References

  • Levot, Prosper (1866). Les gloires maritimes de la France: notices biographiques sur les plus célèbres marins (in French). Bertrand.


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