French ship Suffisant (1782)
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| Name | Suffisant |
| Builder | Toulon |
| Laid down | July 1781 |
| Launched | 6 March 1782 |
| Commissioned | August 1782 |
| Captured | By the British Navy at the occupation of Toulon on 29 August 1793 |
| Fate | Burnt at the evacuation of Toulon on 18 December 1793 |
| General characteristics | |
| Class & type | 74-gun Pégase-class ship of the line |
| Displacement | 3,000 tonneaux |
| Tons burthen | 1,515 port tonneaux |
| Length |
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| Beam | 48 ft 0.75 in (14.6495 m) |
| Depth of hold | 21 ft 4 in (6.50 m) |
| Propulsion | Sails |
| Sail plan | Full-rigged ship |
| Complement | 750 |
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Suffisant was a 74-gun Pégase-class ship of the line of the French Navy, launched in 1782. She served during the last months of the American War of Independence, and survived to see action in the French Revolutionary Wars.
Capture
Suffisant was laid down at Toulon Dockyard in July 1781 to a design by Antoine Groignard.[a] Launched on 6 March 1782, she had entered service by August of that year.[1]
She was handed over by French Royalists at Toulon to the Anglo-Spanish occupying forces during the occupation of Toulon in August 1793, but was burnt at the subsequent evacuation of that port in December to avoid her being taken back into French service.