French ship Léopard (1642)

For other ships with the same name, see French ship Léopard.

The Léopard was a 28-gun small ship of the line of the French Royal Navy, constructed by the Dutch shipwright Jan Gron (usually called Jean de Werth in French) at the new state dockyard at Île d'Indret near Nantes. She and her sister Tigre were two-deckers, but with only a few guns on the upper deck.

History
France
Name	Léopard
Namesake	Leopard
Owner	French Royal Navy
Builder	"Jean de Werth" (real name Jan Gron), in Île d'Indret Dockyard
Laid down	1640
Launched	1642
Completed	1644
Fate	Delivered to Spanish by her mutinous crew in April 1651
General characteristics
Class and type	ship of the line
Tonnage	300 tons
Decks	2 gun decks
Complement	170
Armament	28 guns:
Armour	Timber

In April 1651 her crew mutinied and handed the ship over to the Spanish at San Lucar.

References

• Roche, Jean-Michel (2005). Dictionnaire des bâtiments de la flotte de guerre française de Colbert à nos jours 1 1671 - 1870. p. 223. ISBN 978-2-9525917-0-6. OCLC 165892922.
• Nomenclature des Vaisseaux de Louis XIII et de la régence d'Anne d'Autriche, 1610 a 1661. Alain Demerliac (Editions Omega, Nice – 2004).
• The Sun King's Vessels (2015) – Jean-Claude Lemineur; English translation by François Fougerat. Editions ANCRE. ISBN 978-2903179885
• Winfield, Rif and Roberts, Stephen (2017) French Warships in the Age of Sail 1626-1786: Design, Construction, Careers and Fates. Seaforth Publishing. ISBN 978-1-4738-9351-1.

• Vaisseaux de Ligne Français de 1682 à 1780 1