HMS Renown (1774)

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The Languedoc, dismasted by the storm the night of the 12th, attacked by HMS Renown the afternoon of 13 August 1778

HMS Renown was a 50-gun ship of the line of the Royal Navy.

On 13 August 1778, she fought against the 80-gun Languedoc, which had been dismasted in a storm, and raked her.

She was eventually broken up in 1794.

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