Alcide was a 64-gun ship of the line

Ship of the line

A ship of the line was a type of naval warship constructed from the 17th through the mid-19th century to take part in the naval tactic known as the line of battle, in which two columns of opposing warships would manoeuvre to bring the greatest weight of broadside guns to bear...

 of the French Navy

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, launched in 1742.
The captain of the vessel was Toussaint Hocquart, for the re-enforcement campaign that was sent to Canada  in May of 1755.

On 8 June 1755, Alcide was captured

Action of 8 June 1755

The Action of 8 June 1755 was a naval battle between France and Great Britain early in the French and Indian War. The British captured the third-rate French ships Alcide and Lys off Cape Race, Newfoundland in the Gulf of St. Lawrence...

 by HMS Dunkirk and HMS Torbay of Vice-Admiral Edward Boscawen

Edward Boscawen

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's squadron, and commissioned into the Royal Navy

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 in 1757 as the Third rate HMS Alcide.

HMS Alcide was sold out of the navy in May 1772.