French ship Brave (1781)

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

History
France
Name	Brave
Namesake	Brave
Builder	Rochefort
Laid down	October 1779
Launched	6 June 1781
In service	November 1781
Out of service	1801
General characteristics
Class and type	Argonaute class ship of the line
Displacement	1500 tonnes
Length	55.2 m (181 ft)
Beam	14.3 m (47 ft)
Draught	7.4 m (24 ft)
Propulsion	Sail
Armament	74 guns: 28 36-pounders 30 18-pounders 16 8-pounders Later rasé to 52
Armour	Timber

The Brave was a 74-gun Argonaute class ship of the line of the French Navy.

Commissioned in 1781, she was put in the reserve in 1788, but reactivated in March 1791. Two years later, she was decommissioned again, and razeed to a 52-gun frigate. She took part in the Biscay campaign of June 1795 under Captain Antoine René Thévenard.

She later served under Captain Rolland, and was used as a hulk in Toulon from 1798.

Sources and references

• Roche, Jean-Michel (2005). Dictionnaire des bâtiments de la flotte de guerre française de Colbert à nos jours 1 1671 - 1870. p. 84. ISBN 978-2-9525917-0-6. OCLC 165892922.