History
France
Name	Six Corps
Namesake	The six corps of the Paris merchants.
Builder	Lorient
Laid down	April 1762
Launched	29 December 1762
In service	September 1763
Out of service	August 1779
Fate	Broken up 1780
Notes	Offered by the six corps of the Paris merchants.
General characteristics
Displacement	1600 tonnes
Length	57.2 metres
Beam	14.0 metres
Draught	6.8 metres
Propulsion	Sail, full-rigged ship
Armament	74 guns: Lower gundeck: 28 x 36-pdr long guns Upper gundeck: 30 x 24-pdr long guns Forecastle and Quarter deck: 16 x 8-pdr long guns
Armour	Timber

The Six Corps was a 74-gun ship of the line of the French Navy. She was funded by a don des vaisseaux donation from the six corps that regrouped the merchants of Paris.

Six Corps was built in Lorient on plan by engineer Groignard. After her completion, she was commissioned under capitaine de aisseau de Choras, and departed Lorient on 13 September 1763, bound for Brest, where she arrived on 27 September.

Six Corps was then put in the reserve fleet, and never took part in any military operation. She was almost completely rebuilt in 1775, ordered on 21 June 1779 to be broken up, and broken up in 1780.

References

• 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. 417. ISBN 978-2-9525917-0-6. OCLC 165892922.

External links

• Ships of the line