Royal Louis

It is built by Jacques -Luc Coulomb engineer, nephew of François Coulomb and the future chief structural engineer for the Navy ( 1765 )  . The building is set Brest housing 1 June 1758 and launched in May 1759. It is the same size as the previous one but has a different artillery. Drilled 16 ports , it embarks 32 guns 36 pounds the first battery , 34 of 24 for the second, 34 of 12 in the third , 8 guns on the forecastle , 10 to 8 on the forecastle back , totaling 116 canons . the sculptures of the stern and bow are the work of Caffieri illustrates master carver whose family has contributed to the evolution of the navale decoration. It is placed in service on July 8 1762. His career is more reduced : there is only one campaign after the Seven Years' War (five months and eight days )  . Like the first two buildings of the series, then he spends most of his time in port. The ship also suffers from numerous construction defects and is suffering from dry rot making them brittle wood and cassants . In compensation in 1771 , it was finally demolished in 1721 .


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