French ship Bizarre (1692)

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

History
France
Name	Bizarre
Owner	1691
Builder	Bayonne
Laid down	May 1691
Launched	Autumn 1692
Commissioned	May 1693
Fate	Taken to pieces in December 1727
General characteristics
Tonnage	1,100
Length	145 French feet 4 inches (gundeck) 124½ French feet (keel)
Beam	39½ French feet
Draught	18-24½ French feet
Depth of hold	16 French feet 8 inches
Complement	400 men (320 in peacetime), + 8 officers
Armament	68 guns

The Bizarre was a second rank two-decker ship of the line of the French Royal Navy. She was armed with 68 guns, comprising twenty-six 24-pounder guns on the lower deck and twenty-eight 12-pounder guns on the upper deck, with eight 6-pounder guns on the quarterdeck and six 6-pounder guns on the forecastle.

Designed and built under contract by Félix Arnaud, she was begun at Bayonne in May 1691. She was launched in the autumn of 1692 and completed in May 1693.

The Bizarre took part in the Battle of Lagos on 28 June 1693. In July 1707 she was scuttled at Toulon to avoid capture by the English and Dutch squadron during the attack on that port, but was refloated. unserviceable by 1718, she was retained at Toulon until 1727 when she was taken to pieces by the end of that year.

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.