French ship Superbe (1784)

	Scale model of Achille, sister ship of French ship Superbe (1784), on display at the Musée national de la Marine in Paris.
History
France
Name	Superbe
Namesake	"Superb"
Builder	Brest
Laid down	July 1782
Launched	11 November 1784
In service	1785
Out of service	1795
Fate	Sunk on 30 January 1795
General characteristics
Class and type	Template:Sclass-
Displacement	1966 tonnes; 3260 tonnes fully loaded;
Length	55.87 metres (183.3 ft) (172 pied)
Beam	14.90 metres (48 ft 11 in)
Draught	7.26 metres (23.8 ft) (22 pied)
Propulsion	Up to 2,485 m2 (26,750 sq ft) of sails
Armament	74 guns:; Lower gundeck: 28 × 36-pounder long guns; Upper gundeck: 30 × 18-pounder long guns; Forecastle and Quarter deck:; 16 × 8-pounder long guns; 4 × 36-pounder carronades;
Armour	Timber

Superbe was a Template:Sclass- 74-gun ship of the line of the French Navy. Her hull was copper sheathed.^[1]

She took part in the Croisière du Grand Hiver, where she sank due to a leak. Her crew were rescued by Pierre Maurice Julien de Quérangal.^[1]

Notes and references

Roche, Jean-Michel (2005). Dictionnaire des bâtiments de la flotte de guerre française de Colbert à nos jours. Vol. 1. Group Retozel-Maury Millau. pp. 425–426. ISBN 978-2-9525917-0-6. OCLC 165892922.
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