Annibal-class ship of the line

Class overview
Name	Annibal
Builders	Brest
Operators	French Navy; Royal Navy;
In commission	January 1779 - 1794
Completed	2
General characteristics
Type	ship of the line
Tonnage	1,478
Displacement	2,939 tons (Annibal); 2,965 tons (Northumberland);
Length	54.57 m (179.0 ft) (Annibal); 54.90 m (180.1 ft) (Northumberland);
Beam	14.29 m (46.9 ft)
Draught	7.2 m (24 ft)
Propulsion	Sail
Armament	74 to 78 guns
Notes	Ships in class include: Annibal, Northumberland

The Annibal class was a class of two 74-gun ships of the French Navy. The type was one of the first achievements of Jacques-Noël Sané. His first design - on 24 November 1777 - was for a ship of 166 pieds (176 feet 11 inches) length, but he produced an amended design on 10 January 1779 for the Annibal, and a further amended design on 3 March 1780 for her near-sister Northumberland. Both ships were captured during the Fourth Battle of Ushant ("Bataille du 13 prairial an II" or "Glorious First of June") on 1 June 1794 off Ushant, and were added to but never commissioned into the British Navy.

Annibal

Builder: Brest Dockyard

Ordered: 20 February 1778

Launched: 5 October 1778

Fate: Captured by the Royal Navy on 1 June 1794 and renamed HMS Achille, but broken up at Plymouth in February 1796.

Northumberland

Builder: Brest Dockyard

Ordered:

Launched: 3 May 1780

Fate: Captured by the Royal Navy on 1 June 1794 and named HMS Northumberland, but broken up at Plymouth in November 1795.

Citations

References

Winfield, Rif and Roberts, Stephen S. (2017) French Warships in the Age of Sail 1626–1786: Design, Construction, Careers and Fates.. Seaforth Publishing. 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.

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