French frigate Cumberland (1747)
Cumberland (or Duc de Cumberland[2]) was a 24-gun frigate of the French Navy, originally the East Indiaman Duke of Cumberland.[1][2]
History | |
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Name: | Duke of Cumberland |
Namesake: | Duke of Cumberland |
Builder: | England[1][2] |
Name: | Cumberland |
Fate: | Retired in 1758 [1] |
Name: | Mars |
Fate: | Lost in late 1758 or 1759.[2] |
General characteristics | |
Class and type: | East Indiaman |
Tons burthen: | 250[1] or 499[2](bm) |
Length: | 33.1 metres [1] |
Beam: | 8.4 metres [1] |
Depth of hold: | 4.4 metres [1] |
Propulsion: | Sail |
Complement: | 4 officers and 110 to 180 men[2] |
Armament: |
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Career
On 21 June 1747, the frigates Mutine and Galatée captured Duke of Cumberland off Groix. She was then brought into French naval service as Cumberland.[1]
On 24 February 1748, Cumberland departed for Ile de France and Ile Bourbon under Captain Mézédern, and with La Motte-Picquet as her first officer. After she had called at A Coruña, Cumberland encountered a British 36-gun frigate, leading to an inconclusive battle where she lost 25 killed or wounded. After a 122-day voyage, Cumberland reached Île Bourbon, and then Île de France. From there, she departed for a cruise off India on 20 October 1748.[3].
On 9 February 1749, she arrived at Pondichery with the squadron under Suffren.[1]
In March 1758, the Navy sold her in Brest to a particular for use as the merchantman Mars.[2] She was lost in late 1758 or 1759.[2]
Citations and references
Citations
- Roche, vol.1, p.136
- Demerliac, n°391, p.57
- Levot, p. 128
References
- Demerliac, Alain (2004). La Marine de Louis XV: Nomenclature des Navires Français de 1715 à 1774 (in French). Éditions Ancre. ISBN 2-906381-19-5.
- Levot, Prosper (1866). Les gloires maritimes de la France: notices biographiques sur les plus célèbres marins (in French). Bertrand.
- Jean-Michel Roche, Dictionnaire des Bâtiments de la flotte de guerre française de Colbert à nos jours, tome I