French ship Généreux (1785)
- French ship Généreux (1785)
"Le Généreux" was a French "Téméraire" class ship of the line.
She was launched in 1785 at Rochefort. With the "Guillaume Tell", she was one of only two ships to escape the British attack at the Battle of the Nile in August 1798.
Shortly after the battle of the Nile, on 18 August, 1798, she fell in with a smaller British ship of the line, HMS "Leander" of 50 guns. After a long battle, the "Généreux" captured the "Leander", with the "Leander" suffering 23 killed and 58 wounded and the "Généreux" suffered around 100 killed and 180 wounded. [http://www.ageofnelson.org/MichaelPhillips/info.php?ref=1309]
She was captured by the Royal Navy in February 1800; Rear-Admiral Jean-Baptiste Perrée, the commander-in-chief of the French navy in the Mediterranean was aboard, and was killed at the start of the action. She became HMS "Généreux" and was finally broken up in 1816.
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