French ship Piet Hein (1812)
Piet Hein was a Téméraire-class 74-gun ship of the line of the French Navy.
![]() Scale model of Achille, sister ship of French ship Piet Hein (1812), on display at the Musée national de la Marine in Paris. | |
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Name | Piet Hein |
Namesake | Piet Pieterszoon Hein |
Builder | Venice[1] |
Laid down | January 1807 [1] |
Launched | 15 August 1812[1] |
Commissioned | October 1812[1] |
Decommissioned | 1838 [1] |
Fate | Broken up 1819 |
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
Piet Hein, 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. She was built in Rotterdam under supervision of engineer Alexandre Notaire-Granville, following plans by Sané and using timber taken from the 80-gun Piet Hein,[3] taken apart while still on keel.[1]
Royal Italien was surrendered to Holland at the fall of Rotterdam in December 1813. She was renamed Admiraal Piet Hein, and eventually broken up in 1819.[1]
Citations
- Demerliac, p.81, no 573
- 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.
- Demerliac, p.73, no 504
References
- Demerliac, Alain (2004). La Marine du Consulat et du Premier Empire: Nomenclature des Navires Français de 1800 à 1815 (in French). Éditions Ancre. p. 81. ISBN 2-903179-30-1.
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