French ship Beaumont (1762)

History
French East India Company
Name	Beaumont
Builder	Caro at Lorient, Brittany
Laid down	March 1762
Acquired	19 August 1762
Commissioned	December 1762
Stricken	July 1770
Fate	Taken into service with the French Navy
France
Name	Beaumont
In service	July 1770
Out of service	1772
Fate	Sold to French citizen and renamed Lyon, captured by Royal Navy 1778 and presumed wrecked in dock at Antigua
General characteristics
Tons burthen	900 tons
Length	At gundeck: 47.098 metres, 154 ft 6.3 in At keel: 40.929 metres, 134 ft 3.4 in
Beam	12.045 metres, 39 ft 6.2 in
Depth	4.588 metres, 15 ft 0.6 in
Propulsion	Sails
Sail plan	Full-rigged ship
Armament	56 guns

The Beaumont was a French ship built in 1762 for the French East India Company (FEIC). Intended for carrying trade from the Indian and Pacific Oceans, she was heavily armed. When the FEIC was dissolved in 1769 the Beaumont was taken into service with the French Navy, as a fourth-rate ship-of-the-line. She was sold out of service in 1772 and renamed the Lyon. Owned by a private citizen the Lyon provided support to the rebels during the American War of Independence and was captured by the British frigate Maidstone in 1778. Heavily damaged, she was taken to the Royal Navy dockyard in Antigua where she is believed to have sunk. A wreck was discovered in the dock in 2013 and a 2021 survey found it matched the dimensions of the Beaumont.