The ''Lys'' was a 70-gun 3-decker
ship of the line
A ship of the line was a type of naval warship constructed during the Age of Sail from the 17th century to the mid-19th century. The ship of the line was designed for the naval tactic known as the line of battle, which depended on the two colu ...
of the
French Navy, designed by Audibert. She was the first ship of the line to feature suspended lamps instead of candels.
As ''Ile de France'', she was commissioned under Captain Bellisle to wadged war against the
Barbary corsairs
The Barbary pirates, or Barbary corsairs or Ottoman corsairs, were Muslim pirates and privateers who operated from North Africa, based primarily in the ports of Salé, Rabat, Algiers, Tunis and Tripoli, Libya, Tripoli. This area was known i ...
.
She was renamed ''Lys'' on 24 June 1671. She took part in operations off Tripoli under Captain de La Fayette. In 1672, along with ''Dauphin'', ''Juste'' and ''Reine'', she battled corsairs from Algiers at the entrance of Rhône, destroying two of them.
She was part of
Abraham Duquesne
Abraham Duquesne, marquis du Bouchet (2 February 1688) was a French naval officer, who also saw service as an admiral in the Swedish navy. He was born in Dieppe, a seaport, in 1610, and was a Huguenot. He was the son of a naval officer and theref ...
's squadron in operations off Sicily. She took part in the
Battle of Stromboli
The Battle of Stromboli, also known as the Second Battle of Stromboli or the Battle of Alicudi, took place on 8 January, 1676, during the Franco-Dutch War. The battle occurred between a French fleet of 20 ships under Abraham Duquesne and a combin ...
under Lieutenant-Général Marquis
Guillaume d'Alméras, and in the
Battle of Augusta
The Battle of Augusta, also known as the Battle of Agosta and the Battle of Etna, took place on 22 April 1676 during the Franco-Dutch War and was fought between a French fleet of 29 men-of-war, five frigates and eight fireships under Abraham Du ...
, where she led the vanguard of the French fleet. She was in the rear-guard at the
Battle of Palermo
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.
She was eventually broken up in 1689.
Lys
1660s ships
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