French ship Duc d'Aquitaine (1754)

Duc d'Aquitaine was a 64-gun ship of the line of the French Navy, launched in 1754.

On 30 May 1757 she was captured by the Royal Navy and commissioned as the third rate HMS Duc D'Aquitaine. She foundered in 1761 and was lost.

Fate
On 1 January 1761, Duc D'Aquitaine was caught in a cyclone off Pondicherry, India, and foundered. She had been anchored and attempted to go out to sea, but was unable to and so reanchored. The storm overwhelmed her and she foundered; only 19 men out of a crew of about 400 survived. The same storm claimed four other warships as well. HMS Sunderland (1724) foundered in much the same manner as Duc D'Aquitaine, and with a similar outcome. HMS Newcastle (1750), HMS Queenborough (1748), and HMS Protector (1760) were all driven onshore and wrecked.