Machault was a 32-gun ship of the French Navy, launched in 1757 at Bayonne, France.

[2] She was built as a privateer and owned by Joseph Cadet, a general merchant and arms supplier in New France, and associate of the Intendant, Francois Bigot.

Governor Vaudreuil had asked the French King to send supplies and re-enforcements.

She was sunk in the action, with her wreck later being explored and a number of artefacts salvaged.

In 2006, Atholville resident and historian Allan Muzzerall contributed small pieces of wood salvaged from the ship in the 1970s during excavation for a local mill to the Six String Nation project.