The Voyage of the Bien-Aimé (1758)
The Bien-Aimé was a sailing vessel owned by the French East India Company. It was built by Joseph-Marie-Blaise Coulomb at the Lorient Dockyard around 1756. It had 62 cannons, a crew of 430, and a cargo capacity of 1400 tonnes. It is listed as a part of the Compte d'Aché's squadron in the Seven Years' War. Under the command of Jacques Lars de Lescouet, the Bien-Aimé travelled from Lorient to Brazil to the Mascarenes to India, where it engaged in a battle with the British and sank near Alemparvé north of Puducherry. Along the way, Joseph Tréguier was hired as a replacement on île de France. He was on the ship during its engagement with the British squadron, and when it sank on the Coromandel coast.
