The Bordelois class was a class of 56-gun ships of the line, designed by Antoine Groignard. This was a unique type, designed to provide a battlefleet armament (with 36-pounder guns in the principal battery) on a hull able to operate in the shallow waters around Dunkirk. The ships were funded by don des vaisseaux donations and rushed into production for the Seven Years' War, but were completed too late to take part in the conflict. The Flamand would later have a distinguished career during the War of American Independence.
Ships in class Winfield & Roberts, op. cit., p.148.
Builder: Bordeaux shipyard Ordered: 3 November 1761 Laid down: August 1762 Laid down: July 1762 Launched: 26 April 1763 Completed: July 1763 Fate: Cut down into a frigate in 1779 and renamed Artois; captured by the Royal Navy on 1 July 1780, recommissioned as HMS Artois, then sold February 1786 to break up.
Builder: Bordeaux shipyard Ordered: 3 November 1761 Laid down: August 1762 Launched: 10 October 1763 Completed: December 1763 Fate: Sold to the Ottoman Navy in August 1774
Builder: Bordeaux shipyard Ordered: 3 November 1761 Laid down: August 1762 Laid down: May 1763 Launched: 14 August 1764 Completed: December 1764 Fate: Condemned in December 1771 at Rochefort and hulked there by 1773.
Builder: Bordeaux shipyard Ordered: 3 November 1761 Laid down: August 1762 Laid down: October 1763 Launched: 11 May 1765 Completed: July 1765 Fate: Condemned 1785-86 at Rochefort and struck.
Citations
References Winfield, Rif and Roberts, Stephen (2017) French Warships in the Age of Sail 1626-1786: Design, Construction, Careers and Fates. Seaforth Publishing. .