French ship Duguesclin (1807)

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

For other ships with the same name, see French ship Duguesclin.
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: 1807 [1]
Decommissioned: 1817 [1]
General characteristics [2]
Class and type: Téméraire-class ship of the line
Displacement:
  • 2,966 tonnes
  • 5,260 tonnes fully loaded
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:
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]

Notes, citations, and references

Notes

    Citations
    1. Roche, vol.1, p.162
    2. 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
    • Roche, Jean-Michel (2005). Dictionnaire des bâtiments de la flotte de guerre française de Colbert à nos jours 1 1671 - 1870. p. 162. ISBN 978-2-9525917-0-6. OCLC 165892922.
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