French ship Pultusk (1807)

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

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

Scale model of Achille, sister ship of French ship Pultusk (1807), on display at the Musée national de la Marine in Paris.
History
France
Name:	Pultusk
Namesake:	Battle of Pułtusk
Builder:	Antwerp[1]
Laid down:	April 1804 [1]
Launched:	21 June 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 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

Ordered on 24 April 1804 as Audacieux, the ship 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 took her definitive name Pultusk on 21 February 1807, though the order might not have been implemented until 14 May.[1]

She was commissioned on 21 September 1807 and was part of the Escault squadron under Admiral Missiessy. She was ceded to Holland under the Treaty of Paris,[1] and entered Dutch service as Waterloo.

Notes, citations, and references

Notes

Citations

1. Roche, vol.1, p.368
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. 368. ISBN 978-2-9525917-0-6. OCLC 165892922.