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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 |
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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 |
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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.