French ship Protecteur

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Career (France)
Scale model on display at the Musée de la Marine in Paris. This model is a 64-gun, probably mislabeled.
Namesake:	"Protector"
Builder:	Toulon, by plans by Noël Pomet
Laid down:	1757
Launched:	21 May 1760
Decommissioned:	1789
General characteristics
Class and type:	74-gun ship of the line
Complement:	410 men

The Protecteur was a 74-gun ship of the line of the French Navy, the only to have borne the name.

She was laid down in 1757 and launched in 1760.

Under M. de Grasse-Limermont, the Protecteur took part in the American revolutionary war, notably the Battle of Grenada [1].

A model of a 64-ship of the line on display at the Musée de la Marine is labelled as representing the Protecteur, probably as the result of an error of Admiral Pâris. The model is probably that of the Protée (1748 - 1771)