French ship Ferme (1763)

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

Watercolour portrait of sister-ship Flamand, by François Roux, commissioned by Willaumez
History
France
Name	Ferme
Namesake	Ferme générale
Builder	Bordeaux
Laid down	August 1762
Launched	10 October 1763
In service	20 November 1763
Out of service	August 1774
Fate	Sold to the Ottomans 1774
Ottoman Empire
Owner	Ottoman Navy
General characteristics
Displacement	1100 tonnes
Length	50.7 metres
Beam	13.8 metres
Draught	6.3 metres
Propulsion	Sail, full-rigged ship
Complement	560 men
Armament	56 guns: 24 36-pounder long guns 26 18-pounder long guns 6 8-pounder long guns
Armour	Timber

The Ferme 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 Ferme Générale, and built by engineer Léon Guignace on a design by Antoine Groignard. Complete too late to serve in the Seven Years' War, she was sold to the Ottoman Empire and recommissioned in the Ottoman Navy.

References

• Roche, Jean-Michel (2005). Dictionnaire des bâtiments de la flotte de guerre française de Colbert à nos jours 1 1671–1870. ISBN 978-2-9525917-0-6. OCLC 165892922.
• Winfield, Rif; Roberts, Stephen S. (2017). French warships in the age of sail, 1626-1786: design, construction, careers and fates. Barnsley, South Yorkshire: Seaforth Publishing. ISBN 9781473893511.