French ship Mont-Blanc

Mont-Blanc was a 74-gun third-rate ship of the line of the French Navy. She was built at Rochefort as the Pyrrhus in 1791. She was renamed Mont-Blanc in 1793 before being renamed Trente-et-un Mai in 1794. Under that name she fought at the Battle of the First of June in June 1794 under Honoré Joseph Antoine Ganteaume. She took part in the Croisière du Grand Hiver, where she rescued the crew of the sinking Scipion. In 1795 she was renamed again, be... more

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