French frigate Cumberland (1747)

For other ships with the same name, see French ship Cumberland.

History
Great Britain
Name	Duke of Cumberland
Namesake	Duke of Cumberland
Builder	England[1][2]
France
Name	Cumberland
Fate	Retired in 1758 [1]
France
Name	Mars
Fate	Lost in late 1758 or 1759.[2]
General characteristics
Class and type	East Indiaman
Tons burthen	250[1] or 499[2](bm)
Length	33.1 metres [1]
Beam	8.4 metres [1]
Depth of hold	4.4 metres [1]
Propulsion	Sail
Complement	4 officers and 110 to 180 men[2]
Armament	20 × 6-pounder guns or 8-pounder guns 4 × 4-pounder guns[2]

Cumberland (or Duc de Cumberland^[2]) was a 24-gun frigate of the French Navy, originally the East Indiaman Duke of Cumberland.^[1][2]

Career

On 21 June 1747, the frigates Mutine and Galatée captured Duke of Cumberland off Groix. She was then brought into French naval service as Cumberland.^[1]

On 24 February 1748, Cumberland departed for Ile de France and Ile Bourbon under Captain Mézédern, and with La Motte-Picquet as her first officer. After she had called at A Coruña, Cumberland encountered a British 36-gun frigate, leading to an inconclusive battle where she lost 25 killed or wounded. After a 122-day voyage, Cumberland reached Île Bourbon, and then Île de France. From there, she departed for a cruise off India on 20 October 1748.^[3]

On 9 February 1749, she arrived at Pondichery with the squadron under Suffren.^[1]

In March 1758, the Navy sold her in Brest to a particular for use as the merchantman Mars.^[2] She was lost in late 1758 or 1759.^[2]

Citations

1. Roche, vol.1, p.136
2. Demerliac, n°391, p.57
3. Levot, p. 128

References

• Demerliac, Alain (2004). La Marine de Louis XV: Nomenclature des Navires Français de 1715 à 1774 (in French). Éditions Ancre. ISBN 2-906381-19-5.
• Levot, Prosper (1866). Les gloires maritimes de la France: notices biographiques sur les plus célèbres marins (in French). Bertrand.
• Roche, Jean-Michel (2005). Dictionnaire des bâtiments de la flotte de guerre française de Colbert à nos jours 1 1671–1870. ISBN 978-2-9525917-0-6. OCLC 165892922.