French ship Bourbon (1692)

Bourbon was a second rank two-decker ship of the line of the French Royal Navy. She was armed with 68 guns, comprising twenty-six 24-pounder guns on the lower deck and twenty-eight 12-pounder guns on the upper deck, with eight 6-pounder guns on the quarterdeck and six 6-pounder guns on the forecastle.

History
France
Name:	Bourbon
Ordered:	19 June 1692 (contract)
Builder:	Toulon arsenal
Laid down:	June 1692
Launched:	17 November 1692
Commissioned:	February 1693
Fate:	Captured at Battle of Vigo in October 1702 and burnt
General characteristics
Length:	140 French feet[1]
Beam:	38 French feet 4 inches
Draught:	24½ French feet
Draft:	20 French feet
Depth of hold:	18 French feet
Complement:	450 men (350 in peacetime), + 8 officers
Armament:	68 guns

Designed and built by François Coulomb, she was begun at Toulon arsenal in June 1692 as one of the replacements for the ships destroyed by an English attack at La Hougue in June 1692. She was launched in November 1692 and completed in February 1693.

Bourbon was captured by the Dutch De Zeven Provinciën at the attack on Vigo in October 1702, and burnt by them a week later.

Notes and citations

1. The French (pre-metric) foot was 6.575% longer than the equivalent English foot.

References

• Roche, Jean-Michel (2005). Dictionnaire des bâtiments de la flotte de guerre française de Colbert à nos jours 1 1671 - 1870. p. 223. ISBN 978-2-9525917-0-6. OCLC 165892922.
• Nomenclature des Vaisseaux du Roi-Soleil de 1661 a 1715. Alain Demerliac (Editions Omega, Nice – various dates).
• The Sun King's Vessels (2015) - Jean-Claude Lemineur; English translation by François Fougerat. Editions ANCRE. ISBN 978-2903179885
• Winfield, Rif and Roberts, Stephen (2017) French Warships in the Age of Sail 1626-1786: Design, Construction, Careers and Fates. Seaforth Publishing. ISBN 978-1-4738-9351-1.