Caledonia in two positions Caledonia has just been launched. She is the first 120-gun man-of-war of the British navy. It was decided to build her in 1797 under the feeling that larger ships were necessary to face the French ones, especially the 118s. ¤ At the battle of the Glorious First of June in 1794, the 110-gun Révolutionnaire, formerly Bretagne, designed by Antoine Groignard and launched in 1766, resisted the attempts of capture of up to seven British two-deckers, in