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Ship of the line of the French Navy From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Téméraire was the lead ship of the Téméraire-class 74-gun ship of the line of the French Navy.
Scale model of Achille, sister ship of French ship Téméraire (1782), on display at the Musée national de la Marine in Paris. | |
History | |
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Name | Téméraire [1] |
Namesake | "Temerarious" |
Builder | Brest [1] |
Laid down | May 1782 [1] |
Launched | 17 December 1782 [1] |
Commissioned | July 1783 [1] |
Fate | Broken up in 1803 [1] |
General characteristics | |
Class and type | Téméraire-class ship of the line [1] |
Displacement |
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Length | 55.87 metres (183.3 ft) (172 pied) |
Beam | 14.90 metres (48 ft 11 in) |
Draught | 7.26 metres (23.8 ft) (22 pied) |
Propulsion | Up to 2,485 m2 (26,750 sq ft) of sails |
Armament |
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Armour | Timber |
In 1782 or 1783, she was under Sainte-Eulalie.[2]
She took part in the Bataille du 13 prairial an 2, battling HMS Russell, under Captain Morel. [1]
She took part in the Croisière du Grand Hiver of winter 1794-1795, but sustained damage when a leak opened in her hull in the night of the 30 to 31 December, and she had to return to Saint Malo. [1]
From 1798, Téméraire was in a state of disrepair and needed to be refitted or demolished. She was eventually condemned in 1802 and broken up in 1803.[1]
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