French ship Utile (1764)

For other ships with the same name, see Utile (disambiguation).
Watercolour portrait of sister-ship Flamand, by François Roux, commissioned by Willaumez
History
French Navy EnsignFrance
NameUtile
Namesake"Useful"
BuilderBordeaux[1]
Laid downMay 1763[1]
Launched11 August 1764[1]
In service18 October 1764[1]
Out of service1771[1]
FateBroken up 1793
General characteristics
Displacement1,100 tonnes[1]
Length50.7 m (166 ft 4 in)[1]
Beam13.8 m (45 ft 3 in)[1]
Draught6.3 m (20 ft 8 in)[1]
PropulsionSail, full-rigged ship
Complement560 men[1]
Armament

Utile was a 56-gun Bordelois-class ship of the line of the French Navy. She was funded by a don des vaisseaux donation from the States of Flander, and built by engineer Léon Guignace on a design by Antoine Groignard. Completed too late to serve in the Seven Years' War, she served in the Mediterranean before becoming a junk in Rochefort.[1]

Career

From April to October 1765, Utile campaigned under Captain Duchaffault against privateers off Morocco. She took part in the 1765 Bombardment of Salé and in the Bombardment of Larache.[1]

From 1772, she was reduced to a hulk in Rochfort and used as a masting machine. She was eventually broken up around 1793.[1]

Citations

  1. ^ a b c d e f g h i j k l m n Roche, Jean-Michel (2005). Dictionnaire des bâtiments de la flotte de guerre française de Colbert à nos jours, 1671 - 1870. Group Retozel-Maury Millau. p. 453. ISBN 978-2-9525917-0-6. OCLC 165892922.


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