The Ras Al Khaima stamp shows us the battle between the two flagships HMS QUEEN CHARLOTTE and the La MONTAGNE during the Battle of the Glorious First of June in 1794.
Built as a wooden ship-of-the-line by Arsenal de Toulon, Toulon for the French Navy.
30 September 1785 ordered.
12 August 1786 laid down under the name ÉTATS DE BOURGOANE.
08 November 1790 launched as ÉTATS DE BOURGOANE one of the Océan-class.
Displacement 2,700 ton, dim. 65.18 x 16.24 x 8.12m. (draught).
Armament: Lower deck: 32 - 36-pounder guns, middle deck: 34 - 24-pounder guns,
upper deck: 34 - 12-pounder guns, forecastle: 18 - 8-pounder guns, 6 - 36-pounder carronades.
Full rigged ship sail area 3,265m².
Crew 1,079.
December 1790 in service as ÉTATS DE BOURGOGNE.
22 January 1793 renamed in CÔTE D’OR.
22 October 1793 Renamed in MONTAGNE.
25 May 1795 PEUPLE.
30 May 1795 OCÉAN.
OCÉAN was a 118-gun first-rate three-decker ship of the line of the French Navy, lead ship of her class. She was funded by a don des vaisseaux donation from the Estates of Bourgogne.
She was ordered as ÉTATS DE BOURGOGNE and was launched at Brest in 1790.
Like many French ships of the line during the Revolutionary period, she was renamed several times, becoming CÔTE D’OR in January 1793, MONTAGNE in October 1793, PEUPLE on 17 May 1795, and a matter of weeks later again renamed, to OCÉAN. She served until 1855.
A large model of a generic Océan-class ship, named OCÉAN, at the 1⁄16 scale can be seen at the Musée de la Marine in Paris.
Career
As the largest ship of the line in the Brest fleet, the ship spent much of her early career as the fleet flagship.
As MONTAGNE , the ship was the flagship of Rear-Admiral Villaret-Joyeuse in the Combat de Prairial (known in English literature as the Glorious First of June) in 1794. She was badly damaged by HMS ROYAL SOVEREIGN (in the painting she is in battle with the HMS QUEEN CHARLOTTE, in the career of the ROYAL SOVEREIGN I only can find that she took part in the battle but nowhere that she was in battle with the French flagship.) losing 313 men and receiving 233 round shots in her hull.
On 17 May 1795, she was renamed PEUPLE; a month later, on 23 June she fought in the Battle of Groix as Villaret's flagship. Returning to Lorient three days later, she was officially renamed to OCÉAN a name that had been in use since 30 May.
She was refitted in Brest in 1797.
In 1801, she once again served as Villaret's flagship, ferrying troops of Leclerc's expedition to Saint-Domingue.
OCÉAN was Allemand's flagship at the Battle of the Basque Roads.
She was decommissioned on 2 August 1850, and used as a floating artillery battery from May 1851.
1856 Broken up.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/French_sh ... 9an_(1790)
Ras al Khaima 1972 50d sg?, scott?
Grenada Carriacou Petite Martinique 2001 $1.50 sg 3471, scott 2366ª and MS sg?, scott 2366. (don’t have the stamp.)