French ship Citoyen (1764)
{{short description|Ship of the line of the French Navy}}
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Citoyen was a 74-gun ship of the line of the French Navy, lead ship of her class to a design by Joseph-Louis Ollivier. She was funded by a don des vaisseaux donation from the Bankers and General Treasurers of the Army.{{sfnp|Roche|2005|p=116}}
Career
Ordered in May 1757 as Cimeterre, the ship was renamed Citoyen on 20 January 1762. A launching attempt aborted on 10 August 1764, when she came to a halt on the ramp, and she was eventually set afloat 17 days later.{{sfnp|Roche|2005|p=116}}
She took part in the Battle of Martinique on 17 April 1780 under Captain Poute de Nieuil.{{sfnp|Contenson|1934|p=235}}{{sfnp|Troude|1867|p=71}}
In 1781, under Alexandre de Thy,{{sfnp|Lacour-Gayet|1910|p=648}} she was appointed to the squadron of Admiral de Grasse and took part in the Battle of Fort Royal in April. On 24 August, along with {{ship|French ship|Glorieux|1756|2}}, she captured {{HMS|Cormorant|1776|6}} off Charleston. In September, she took part in the Battle of the Chesapeake on 5 September 1781, in the Battle of St Kitts on 25/26 January 1782 and the Battle of the Saintes on 12 April 1782.
In 1783, on returning to France, she was decommissioned, and was eventually broken up in 1791.{{sfnp|Roche|2005|p=116}}
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References
- {{cite book |last1=Contenson |first1=Ludovic |author-link1=Ludovic de Contenson|title=La Société des Cincinnati de France et la guerre d'Amérique (1778-1783) |date=1934 |publisher=éditions Auguste Picard |location=Paris|url=https://gallica.bnf.fr/ark:/12148/bpt6k65709399/f319.item.r|oclc=7842336}}
- {{cite book |last=Lacour-Gayet |first=Georges|author-link=Georges Lacour-Gayet|title=La marine militaire de la France sous le règne de Louis XVI |date=1910 |publisher=Honoré Champion |location=Paris |url=https://gallica.bnf.fr/ark:/12148/bpt6k1181278.texteImage|pages=431–434}}
- {{cite book |first=Jean-Michel |last=Roche |year=2005 |title=Dictionnaire des bâtiments de la flotte de guerre française de Colbert à nos jours, 1671 - 1870 |isbn=978-2-9525917-0-6 |oclc=165892922 |pages=116|publisher=Group Retozel-Maury Millau}}
- {{Cite book|first=Onésime-Joachim|last=Troude|author-link=Onésime-Joachim Troude|year=1867|publisher=Challamel ainé|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=TwZv6FX-RpsC|title=Batailles navales de la France|language=fr|volume=2}}
- {{cite book |first1=Rif|last1=Winfield| first2=Stephen S |last2=Roberts |title=French Warships in the Age of Sail 1626–1786: Design Construction, Careers and Fates|publisher=Seaforth|year=2017|isbn=978-1-4738-9351-1}}
External links
- [http://www.pbenyon.plus.com/18-1900/C/01087.html Naval Database] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120207144414/http://www.pbenyon.plus.com/18-1900/C/01087.html |date=2012-02-07 }}
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Category:Ships of the line of the French Navy
Category:Citoyen-class ships of the line
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