Sévère was a 64-gun ship of the line of the French Navy. Built as an Indiaman by Roth on the lines of a previous ship, Superbe, that had been sold to...

The Anglo-French War, also known as the War of 1778 or the Bourbon War in Britain, was a military conflict fought between France and Great Britain, sometimes...

arrived at Île de France to join the French ships already stationed there – these were the ships of the line Orient (74 guns), Sévère (64), Bizarre (64)...

Soleil Royal (Royal Sun) was a French 104-gun ship of the line, flagship of Admiral Tourville. She was built in Brest between 1668 and 1670 by engineer...

Revolution. France officially entered the war on June 17, 1778. Still, the ships that the French sent to the Western Hemisphere spent most of the year in...

was being gradually introduced in the French Navy. In June 1778, Surveillante was part of a squadron of five French frigates that were seeking to retaliate...

Villeneuve, was off Cape of Good Hope escorting the transports Neker and Sévère. The squadron encountered the 50-gun HMS Hannibal, which captured the transports...

Hughes demanding that Suffren hand over Sévère after her surrender. Suffren answered that he was unaware that Sévère had surrendered and promised to launch...

French involvement in the American Revolutionary War of 1775–1783 began in 1776 when the Kingdom of France secretly shipped supplies to the Continental...

Sévère class, built by François Caro for commercial operators, to the design of Antoine Groignard's Indien Class. Purchased in 1778–79 by the French Navy...

Revolutionary War during which she captured two ships of the British Royal Navy on 14 August 1778. In 1782, the ship was captured by the Royal Navy at the Battle...

coast of West Africa. There Landolphe's ships began an extended commerce raiding operation, inflicting severe damage on the West African trade for the...

1778 also known as the Fight of Belle Poule and Arethusa was a minor naval action that took place off the coast of France between British and French frigates...

Under the Treaty of Alliance (1778), the United States had agreed to protect the French West Indies in return for French support in the American Revolutionary...

tactical ramifications. French ships tended to fire at the rigging of their opponents to disable them and allow the French ships to escape and continue...

the Seven Years' War, but was captured in 1778 during the American Revolutionary War and served as the French Minerve until being recaptured in 1781 and...

a mission to the Indian Ocean, and appointed to the 64-gun Sévère. On 27 March 1779, Sévère departed with the transports Hercule and Trois-Amis. The squadron...

treatment for the sick and wounded French soldiers, and French regular troops were returned to France aboard British ships with an agreement that they were...

sea from Spithead on 9 July 1778 with a force of around twenty-nine ships of the line and, on 23 July, sighted a French fleet of roughly equal force...

entering the Revolutionary War in 1778, France provided the Americans money, weapons, soldiers, and naval assistance, while French troops fought under U.S. command...

receiving his first commission as commander of a ship in 1776. He was granted leave in 1778 to serve in the French Navy in order to gain useful experience. He...

in North America vulnerable to attacks. France officially entered the war on 17 June 1778, and the French ships sent to the Western Hemisphere spent most...

In February 1779, he was promoted to Ensign, and appointed to the 64-gun Sévère, under his own father. La Pallière followed his father on the 74-gun Orient...

Bretagne was a large 110-gun three-decker French ship of the line, built at Brest, which became famous as the flagship of the Brest Fleet during the American...

British ships were the fourth, fifth, eighth and tenth in line, respectively Burford, Sultan, Worcester and Eagle; the two French were Sévère (third in...

– In October 1694 sent from White Sea to France as a merchant ship with the state goods, captured by France just in harbour because sailed under the Dutch...

declared between France and Great Britain in March 1778. France sent Admiral Comte d'Estaing with a fleet of 12 ships of the line and 4,000 French Army troops...

merchant ships, which they took into French ports, even though France was officially neutral. Captain Day had even been accorded a gun salute by the French admiral...

British ships in an action against the 64-gun Sévère. Outnumbered, Sévère surrendered. The British ships ceased firing and Sultan turned away to rejoin...

or corvette built at the Spanish naval base at San Blas and launched in 1778. She is sometimes called a frigate and sometimes a corvette. At the time...