French ship Utile (1764)

	Watercolour portrait of sister-ship Flamand, by François Roux, commissioned by Willaumez
History
France
Name	Utile
Namesake	"Useful"
Builder	Bordeaux[1]
Laid down	May 1763[1]
Launched	11 August 1745[1]
In service	18 October 1764[1]
Out of service	1771[1]
Fate	Broken up 1793
General characteristics
Displacement	1100 tonnes[1]
Length	50.7 metres[1]
Beam	13.8 metres[1]
Draught	6.3 metres[1]
Propulsion	Sail, full-rigged ship
Complement	560 men[1]
Armament	56 guns:; 24 36-pounder long guns; 26 18-pounder long guns; 6 8-pounder long guns[1];
Armour	Timber

The Utile was a 56-gun Bordelois-class ship of the line of the French Navy. She was funded by a don des vaisseaux donation from the States of Flander, and built by engineer Léon Guignace on a design by Antoine Groignard. Completed too late to serve in the Seven Years' War, she served in the Mediterranean before becoming a junk in Rochefort.[1]

Career

From April to October 1765, Utile campaigned under Captain Duchaffault against privateers off Morocco. She took part in the 1765 Bombardment of Salé and in the Bombardment of Larache.[1]

From 1772, she was reduced to a hulk in Rochfort and used as a masting machine. She was eventually broken up around 1793.[1]

Citations

Roche, Jean-Michel (2005). Dictionnaire des bâtiments de la flotte de guerre française de Colbert à nos jours, 1671 - 1870. Group Retozel-Maury Millau. p. 453. ISBN 978-2-9525917-0-6. OCLC 165892922.

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[roche453-1] Roche, Jean-Michel (2005). Dictionnaire des bâtiments de la flotte de guerre française de Colbert à nos jours, 1671 - 1870. Group Retozel-Maury Millau. p. 453. ISBN 978-2-9525917-0-6. OCLC 165892922.