French ship Orion (1813)

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

For other ships with the same name, see French ship Orion.

Scale model of Achille, sister ship of French ship Orion (1813), on display at the Musée national de la Marine in Paris.
History
France
Name:	Orion
Namesake:	Orion.
Builder:	Brest[1]
Laid down:	18 May 1810 [1]
Launched:	9 October 1813 [1]
Commissioned:	22 November 1813 [1]
Decommissioned:	1841 [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 m^2 (26,750 sq ft) of sails
Armament:	74 guns: Lower gundeck: 28 × 36-pounder long guns Upper gundeck: 30 × 18-pounder long guns Forecastle and Quarter deck: 6 × 8-pounder long guns 10 × 36-pounder carronades
Armour:	Timber

Career

Orion was commissioned in 1814 under Captain Jean-Baptiste Billard.[1][3]

In 1827, Orion was chosen as a school ship of the École navale. She was replaced by Borda in 1840, and struck in 1841.[1]

Notes, citations, and references

Notes

Citations

1. Roche, vol.1, p.336
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.
3. Quintin, p.67-68

References

• Quintin, Danielle; Quintin, Bernard (2003). Dictionnaire des capitaines de Vaisseau de Napoléon (in French). S.P.M. p. 67. ISBN 2-901952-42-9.
• Roche, Jean-Michel (2005). Dictionnaire des bâtiments de la flotte de guerre française de Colbert à nos jours 1 1671 - 1870. p. 336. ISBN 978-2-9525917-0-6. OCLC 165892922.