Class overview
NameAnnibal
BuildersBrest
Operators
In commissionJanuary 1779 - 1794
Completed2
General characteristics
Typeship of the line
Tonnage1,478
Displacement
  • 2,939 tons (Annibal)
  • 2,965 tons (Northumberland)
Length
  • 54.57 m (179.0 ft) (Annibal)
  • 54.90 m (180.1 ft) (Northumberland)
Beam14.29 m (46.9 ft)
Draught7.2 m (24 ft)
PropulsionSail
Armament74 to 78 guns
NotesShips in class include: Annibal, Northumberland

The Annibal class was a class of two 74-gun ships of the French Navy. The type was one of the first achievements of Jacques-Noël Sané. His first design - on 24 November 1777 - was for a ship of 166 pieds (176 feet 11 inches) length, but he produced an amended design on 10 January 1779 for the Annibal, and a further amended design on 3 March 1780 for her near-sister Northumberland. Both ships were captured during the Fourth Battle of Ushant ("Bataille du 13 prairial an II" or "Glorious First of June") on 1 June 1794 off Ushant, and were added to but never commissioned into the British Navy.

Builder: Brest Dockyard
Ordered: 20 February 1778
Launched: 5 October 1778
Fate: Captured by the Royal Navy on 1 June 1794 and renamed HMS Achille, but broken up at Plymouth in February 1796.
Builder: Brest Dockyard
Ordered:
Launched: 3 May 1780
Fate: Captured by the Royal Navy on 1 June 1794 and named HMS Northumberland, but broken up at Plymouth in November 1795.

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