French ship Indivisible

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Capture of HMS Swiftsure by Indivisible and Dix-Août
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Indivisible was a Script error: No such module "WPSHIPS utilities". 80-gun ship of the line of the French Navy.

Career

Originally named the Indivisible in 1793, she was commissioned in Toulon on 23 September 1800. On 18 March 1800, Captain Louis-Marie Le Gouardun took command, which he retained until 9 March 1801.[1]

On 5 February 1803, she was renamed Alexandre, and recommissioned in Brest under Captain Leveyer.

In December, under Captain Garreau, she was part of Corentin Urbain Leissègues's squadron bound for San Domingo. She took part in the subsequent Battle of San Domingo, where she was badly damaged by the fire of Script error: No such module "WPSHIPS utilities"., which left her adrift, her rigging shot off and her rudder destroyed. She was taken by Script error: No such module "WPSHIPS utilities"..

From 1808, the Royal Navy used her as a gunpowder hulk in Plymouth. Indivisible was eventually broken up in 1822.

Citations

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  1. Quintin, p.221

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