French ship Palmier (1752)

She did not fight at Lagos or Quiberon Bay, in which the Toulon and Brest fleets were defeated in a new attempt at an invasion of Britain.

Taken in hand at Brest Dockyard, she was re-launched in December 1766 and emerged, essentially as a new ship to the lines of Citoyen, a new 74-gun designed by Joseph-Louis Ollivier.

In 1778 Palmier was under Boscal de Réals as part of the White-and-Blue squadron, the vanguard of the fleet under Orvilliers.

On 12 September 1781 she was in the midst of the battle of Chesapeake, a decisive French victory which lead to the British defeat in the Siege of Yorktown.

She was retired from the fleet the same year when it was ordered back to France, but was sunk by a major storm off the Bermudas on 24 October 1782.