Sunday, March 28, 2021

French Ships of the Line Généreux

 Another Black Seas ship of the line. I've christened her Généreux (Generosity and odd name for a ship of war, sounds more like a hospital ship) for one of the two French ships of the line that escaped Nelson at the Battle of the Nile.

She's 74 gun ship of the Téméraire class and she would meet the English again at the battle of the Malta Convoy where she took on an a Royal Navy frigate and defeated it but had her commander killed. 

She was then rundown by three English ships of the line and forced to surrender. She did allow the rest of the convoy to escape but they could not make it into Malta. 
One feels she might have done better if her leadership had not been removed, fortune's of war. She also had a undistinguished career as HMS Généreux. 


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