French ship Dauphin Royal (1668)

	Aft of Dauphin Royal
History
France
Name:	Dauphin Royal
Namesake:	The Dauphin of France, heir to the French throne
Builder:	François Pomet, in Toulon
Laid down:	March 1667
Launched:	29 March 1668
Completed:	April 1670
Out of service:	November 1699
Stricken:	Sold June 1700
General characteristics
Class and type:	ship of the line
Tonnage:	1,800 tons
Length:	159½ French feet[1]
Beam:	43½ French feet
Draught:	24 French feet
Depth of hold:	20 French feet
Decks:	3 gun decks
Complement:	640, +9 officers; later 750 then 780
Armament:	100 (later 104) guns:; 12 x 24-pounder long guns + 14 x 18-pounder long guns on lower deck, later replaced by 26 x 36-pounder long guns; 14 x 18-pounder long guns + 12 x 12-pounder long guns on middle deck, later replaced by 28 x 18-pounder long guns; 24 x 8-pounder long guns on upper deck, later increased to 28 x 8-pounder long guns; 18 6-pounder long guns on quarterdeck and forecastle;
Armour:	Timber

Dauphin Royal was a 104-gun ship of the line of the French Royal Navy. She was built at Toulon Dockyard, designed and constructed by François Pomet. She took part in the Battle of Beachy Head on 10 July 1690 (N.S.) and the Battle of Lagos on 28 June 1693, both times as flagship of Lieutenant-Général Louis-François de Rousselet, Comte de Châteaurenault, under Vice-Admiral Tourville. She was decommissioned in 1698 or 1699, and broken up in 1700.

Sources and 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.

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

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