French ship Duguesclin (1807)
Duguesclin was a Téméraire-class 74-gun ship of the line of the French Navy.
 Scale model of Achille, sister ship of French ship Duguesclin (1807), on display at the Musée national de la Marine in Paris. | |
| History | |
|---|---|
 France | |
| Name | Duguesclin |
| Namesake | Bertrand du Guesclin |
| Builder | Antwerp[1] |
| Laid down | June 1804 [1] |
| Launched | 20 June 1807 [1] |
| Decommissioned | 1817 [1] |
| Fate | Broken up 1820 |
| General characteristics [2] | |
| Class and type | Téméraire-class ship of the line |
| 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
Ordered on 24 April 1804, Duguesclin was one of the ships built in the various shipyards captured by the First French Empire in Holland and Italy in a crash programme to replenish the ranks of the French Navy.[1] Her breaking up was approved on 11 January 1820.[3]
Citations
- Roche, vol.1, p.162
- Clouet, Alain (2007). "La marine de Napoléon III : classe Téméraire - caractéristiques". dossiersmarine.free.fr. Archived from the original on 23 March 2013. Retrieved 4 April 2013.
- Winfield p.95
References
- Roche, Jean-Michel (2005). Dictionnaire des bâtiments de la flotte de guerre française de Colbert à nos jours 1 1671 - 1870. Roche. p. 162. ISBN 978-2-9525917-0-6. OCLC 165892922.
- Winfield, Rif (2015). French warships in the age of sail, 1786-1861. Barnsley. ISBN 978-1-84832-204-2.
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