SUPERBE
- FRENCH - 1782
The Superbe was a Téméraire class 74-gun ship
of the line of the French Navy. She took part in the Croisière
du Grand Hiver, where she sank due to a leak. She was constructed
according to the plan of the most well known engineer of the
maritime history: Jacques Noel Sane. "The Superbe"
was put into the shipyard of Brest in 1782 and was launched
in 1784. It is the exact model which represents the French
battle ship of the end of the ancient regime, of the revolution
and the Empire.
During the thirty years that followed the launching of these
ships, many of them were captured by the British Marine. The
skill of Sane was confirmed by the judgment passed by his
compatriots and his adversaries on the vessels which he had
built. By this way the historian of the British Marine said
to one of them; "It was not only the biggest one, but
it was also the most beautiful that we have seen up to here
and inspite of its big side it could be manoeuvred as a frigate.
The "Superbe" formed part of the Naval French War
of the Admiral Villaret Joyeuse.
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