French ship Prompt (1692) (original) (raw)

Prompt was a second rank two-decker ship of the line of the French Royal Navy. She was armed with 70 guns, comprising twenty-eight 24-pounder guns on the lower deck and thirty 12-pounder guns on the upper deck, with twelve 6-pounder guns on the quarterdeck and the forecastle. Designed and built by René Levasseur, she was begun at Dunkirk in September 1692 as one of the replacements for the ships destroyed by an English attack at La Hougue in June 1692. She was launched on 25 December 1692 and completed in March 1693.

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