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.
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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 |
Career
editIn 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]
Fate
editFrom 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]
Citations
editReferences
edit- Contenson, Ludovic (1934). La Société des Cincinnati de France et la guerre d'Amérique (1778-1783). Paris: éditions Auguste Picard. OCLC 7842336.
- Roche, Jean-Michel (2005). Dictionnaire des bâtiments de la flotte de guerre française de Colbert à nos jours 1 1671–1870. ISBN 978-2-9525917-0-6. OCLC 165892922.