French ship Orgueilleux (1691)

History
France
Name	Orgueilleux (meaning "Proud")
Builder	Lorient Dockyard
Laid down	June 1690
Launched	29 March 1691
Commissioned	May 1691
Fate	Broken up at Toulon in 1716
General characteristics
Tonnage	1,600
Length	153 French feet[a]
Beam	45 French feet
Draught	23 French feet
Depth of hold	19¼ French feet
Complement	550, later 650 men (400 in peacetime), + 9 officers
Armament	88, later 90 guns

The Orgueilleux was a First Rank three-decker ship of the line of the French Royal Navy. She was initially armed with 88 guns, comprising twenty-eight 36-pounder guns on the lower deck, thirty 18-pounder guns on the middle deck, and twenty-four 8-pounder guns on the upper deck, with six 6-pounder guns on the quarterdeck, but an extra pair of 8-pounders was added soon after completion. By 1706 one pair of 36-pounders had been removed and an extra pair of 6-pounders added on the quarterdeck to maintain the 90-gun rating.

Designed and constructed by Laurent Coulomb, she was begun at Lorient Dockyard in June 1690 and launched on 29 March of the following year. She was completed in May 1691 and took part in the Battle of Barfleur on 29 May 1692, in the Battle of Lagos on 28 June 1693, and in the Battle of Velez-Malaga on 24 August 1704.

The Orgueilleux was among the fifty warships scuttled at Toulon on Louis XIV's orders during the Siege of Toulon in July 1707, but was subsequently refloated. She was condemned at Toulon on 11 March 1713, and by Order of 1 December 1715 she was taken to pieces - the work being completed by August 1716.
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