The French ship Tourville was a 74-gun Téméraire-class ship of the line, constructed for the French Navy in the late 18th century. Laid down at the Arsenal de Lorient on June 1, 1787, she was launched on September 16, 1788, and completed by July 1790. The vessel measured approximately 55.87 meters (183 feet 4 inches) in length, with a beam of 14.46 meters (47 feet 5 inches) and a depth of hold of 7.15 meters (23 feet 5 inches). Displacing around 3,069 tonneaux, Tourville had a mean draught of 7.15 meters and a tonnage of 1,537 port tonneaux. Her crew comprised about 705 officers and ratings during wartime, and she was rigged with three masts typical of ships of her class. Armament on the Tourville included a comprehensive array of smoothbore, muzzle-loading guns. Her lower gun deck was equipped with twenty-eight 36-pounder long guns, while her upper deck had thirty 18-pounder long guns, complemented by an additional sixteen 8-pounder long guns on the quarterdeck and forecastle. Starting with ships completed after 1787, modifications included the addition of four 36-pounder obusiers on the poop deck. During her service, Tourville saw limited engagement but participated in notable events of the French Revolutionary Wars. In March 1793, she broke out of Brest amid a storm but was damaged by a tempest that resulted in the death of her captain and forced her to return to port. She experienced a mutiny in September of that year. Her operational history includes participation in the Glorious First of June in 1794, the French expedition to Ireland in 1796, and the Cruise of Bruix in 1799. The vessel served until she was broken up in Brest in 1841, marking a lengthy career that reflected her importance as part of France’s naval forces during a turbulent period in maritime history.

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