Annibal-class ship of the line

Class of two 74-gun ships of the French Navy

Annibal (left) at the Glorious First of June

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

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## References

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* 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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French Navy ship of the line classes timeline, 1750s–1900s

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130 gun three-decker  |  | Bretagne |
110-120 gun three-decker  |  | Sans-Pareil class |  | Océan class |
| Bretagne |  | Valmy |
| Terrible class | Commerce de Paris class |
90-100 gun two-decker  |  | Napoléon class |
| Suffren class |
| Hercule class
80-gun two-decker  |  | Saint-Esprit  class |
| Deux Frères |  | Bucentaure class |
| Tonnant class |
74-gun two-decker  | Hector class |
Magnifique class |
| Souverain class |
| Diadème class |
| Citoyen class |
| Marseillois |
| César class |
| Magnanime class |
| Annibal class |
| Scipion class |
| Pégase class |
| Téméraire class |
| Centaure class |

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