French ship Triomphant (1667)

For other ships with the same name, see French ship Triomphant.

History
France
Name	Triomphant
Builder	Jean-Pierre Brun, Soubise
Laid down	December 1665
Launched	May 1667
Out of service	1690
Renamed	Launched as Princesse in 1667, renamed Triomphant on 24 June 1671, then Constant on 28 June 1678
Fate	Hulked
General characteristics
Length	137 French feet[a]
Beam	34½ French feet
Draught	16 French feet
Depth of hold	16 French feet
Complement	400, + 5/9 officers
Armament	60, later 64 guns: 10 × 24-pounders and 14 × 18-pounders on the lower deck 24 × 12-pounders on the middle deck 16 × 6-pounders on the upper deck (4 forwards and 12 aft of the unarmed waist section)

The Triomphant was a ship of the line of the French Navy. She was a three-decker, although the upper deck was only partially armed, with an unarmed sections between the guns towards the bow and those towards the stern. She was built from 1665 to 1667 as the Princesse, and under this name she took part in the Expedition to Candia in 1669, but she was renamed Triomphant on 24 June 1671 and subsequently Constant on 28 June 1678. She was converted into a hulk in 1690 and renamed Vieux Constant, surviving in this role until 1704.[1][2]

Notes

1. The French (pre-metric) foot was 6.575% longer than the equivalent English foot.

Citations

1. "3decks - Naval Sailing Warfare History / HMXMS Princesse (1667)". Retrieved 2012-03-15.
2. "France 2. Rate warships 1647-1699". Sailing warships by Teemu. Retrieved 2012-03-15.

References

• Roche, Jean-Michel (2005). Dictionnaire des bâtiments de la flotte de guerre française de Colbert à nos jours 1 1671 - 1870. p. 223. ISBN 978-2-9525917-0-6. OCLC 165892922.
• Nomenclature des Vaisseaux du Roi-Soleil de 1661 a 1715. Alain Demerliac (Editions Omega, Nice – various dates).
• The Sun King's Vessels (2015) – Jean-Claude Lemineur; English translation by François Fougerat. Editions ANCRE. ISBN 978-2903179885
• Winfield, Rif and Roberts, Stephen (2017) French Warships in the Age of Sail 1626-1786: Design, Construction, Careers and Fates. Seaforth Publishing. ISBN 978-1-4738-9351-1.