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French ship Audacieux (1784)

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Scale model of Achille, sister ship of French ship Audacieux (1784), on display at the Musée national de la Marine in Paris.
History
French Navy Ensign France
NameAudacieux
Namesake"Audacious"
Ordered15 February 1782
BuilderLorient
Laid down8 July 1782
Launched28 August 1784
Commissioned1785
FateBroken up in Brest in 1803
General characteristics [1]
Class and typeTéméraire-class ship of the line
Displacement
  • 1,966 tonnes
  • 3,260 tonnes fully loaded
Length55.87 metres (183.3 ft) (172 pied)
Beam14.90 metres (48 ft 11 in)
Draught7.26 metres (23.8 ft) (22 pied)
PropulsionUp to 2,485 m2 (26,750 sq ft) of sails
Armament
ArmourTimber

Audacieux was a Téméraire-class 74-gun ship of the line of the French Navy.

Between 1791 and 1793, she was decommissioned in Lorient. She joined active service again in 1793, and the next year, she salvaged the Révolutionnaire, dismasted after the Glorious First of June.

She was eventually broken up in 1803.

See also

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Citations

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  1. ^ 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.

References

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  • Winfield, Rif; Roberts, Stephen S (2015). French Warships in the Age of Sail 1786—1862: Design Construction, Careers and Fates. Seaforth. ISBN 978-1-84832-204-2.