The César class or Zélé class included two 74-gun ships of the line designed by Joseph Coulomb. They were a development of his earlier 74-gun ship, the Zélé of 1763.
- Builder: Toulon
- Ordered: 10 March 1767
- Launched: 3 August 1768
- Fate: Captured and burnt by the British at the Battle of the Saintes, 12 April 1782
- Builder: Toulon
- Ordered: 7 February 1770
- Launched: 21 October 1777
- Fate: Captured by the British at Toulon in August 1793, and burnt by them there in December 1793
Sources and 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 navires français de 1715 á 1774. Alain Demerliac (Editions Omega, Nice – 1995). ISBN 2-906381-19-5.
- 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.
- ^ The French (pre-metric) foot was 6.575% longer than the equivalent French foot.