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TÉMÉRAIRE sailing ships-of-the-line (1783-1832)

Name No Yard No Builder Laid down Launched Comp Fate
Téméraire     Arsenal de Brest 5/1782 17.12.1782 7/1783 condemned 11.1802
Superbe     Arsenal de Brest 7/1782 11.11.1784 1785 lost 30.1.1795
Audacieux     Arsenal de Lorient 8.7.1782 28.10.1784 1785 condemned 11.1802
Généreux     Arsenal de Rochefort 24.7.1782 6-7/1785 10/1785 captured by British 18.2.1800 (Généreux)
Orion, 11.1793- Mucius Scévola, 11.1793- Mucius     Arsenal de Rochefort 10/1784 18.4.1787 1788 condemned 10.1803
Fougueux     Arsenal de Lorient 11/1784 19.9.1785 12/1785 captured by British 21.10.1805
Commerce de Bordeaux, 12.1793- Bonnet Rouge, 2.1794- Timoléon     Arsenal de Toulon 9/1784 15.9.1785 1786 destroyed by crew 2.8.1798
Lys, 10.1792- Tricolore     Arsenal de Toulon 9/1784 7.10.1785 9/1787 surrendered to UK and Spain 8.1793, fire 18.12.1793
Patriote     Arsenal de Brest 10/1784 3.10.1785 4/1786 surrendered to UK and Spain 8.1793, returned 9.1793, condemned 5.1820
Borée, 4.1794- Ça Ira, 6.1794- Agricola     Arsenal de Lorient 11/1784 17.11.1785 8/1787 frigate 7.1794, hospital hulk 1796
Ferme, 10.1792- Phocion     Arsenal de Brest 12/1784 16.9.1785 1786 surrendered to Spain 11.1.1793, to Spain 1794 (Phocion)
Léopard     Arsenal de Brest 15.11.1785 22.6.1787 7/1787 wrecked 17.2.1793
Entreprenant     Arsenal de Lorient 5/1786 12.10.1787 1788 captured by UK and Spain 8.1793, returned 9.1793, condemned 11.1802
Tourville     Arsenal de Lorient 1.6.1787 16.9.1788 7/1790 stricken 10.1833
Éole     Arsenal de Lorient 2.6.1787 15.11.1789 8/1790 condemned 1.1811
Jean Bart     Arsenal de Lorient 1.6.1788 7.11.1790 2/1791 wrecked 26.2.1809
Thémistocle     Arsenal de Lorient 1.9.1789 12.9.1791 9/1792 captured by UK and Spain 8.1793, fire 18.12.1793
Trajan, 12.1797- Gaulois     Arsenal de Lorient 17.5.1790 24.1.1792 11/1792 BU 1.1805
Tyrannicide, 7.1800- Desaix     Arsenal de Lorient 1.11.1791 28.6.1793 11/1793 wrecked 15.2.1802
Droits de L'Homme     Arsenal de Lorient 5/1793 29.5.1794 7/1794 wrecked 13.1.1797
Cassard, 2.1798- Dix-Août, 2.1803- Brave     Arsenal de Lorient 8/1793 2.5.1795 7/1795 captured by UK 6.2.1806
Wattignies     Arsenal de Lorient-Caudan 5/1793 8.10.1794 12/1794 condemned 9.1808
Hercule     Arsenal de Lorient-Caudan 6/1794 5.10.1797 2/1798 captured by UK 20.4.1798 (Hercule)
Argonaute     Arsenal de Lorient-Caudan 9/1794 22.12.1798 9/1799 to Spain 12.1806 (Argonauta)
Impétueux     Arsenal de Rochefort 1786 25.10.1787 1788 captured by UK 1.6.1794 (Impetueux)
Apollon, 2.1794- Gasparin, 5.1795- Apollon, 12.1797- Marceau     Arsenal de Rochefort 4/1787 21.5.1788 1788 captured by UK and Spain 8.1793, re-captured 9.1793, BU 6.1798
Aquilon     Arsenal de Rochefort 8/1787 8.6.1789 6/1790 captured by UK 2.8.1798 (Aboukir)
Thésée, 1.1793- Révolution, 2.1803- Finistèrre     Arsenal de Rochefort 3/1788 14.4.1790 8/1790 condemned 12.1804
Mont Blanc (ex-Pyrrhus), 4.1794- Trente et un Mai, 4.1795- Républicain, 1.1796- Mont Blanc     Arsenal de Rochefort 7/1789 13.8.1791 3/1793 captured by UK 4.11.1805 (Mont Blanc)
Jemmapes (ex-Alexnadre)     Arsenal de Rochefort 8/1790 22.1.1794 3/1794 condemned 5.1820
Marat, 5.1795- Formidable     Arsenal de Rochefort 8/1791 29.4.1794 6/1794 captured by UK 22.6.1795 (Belleisle)
America     Arsenal de Brest 1787 21.5.1788 1789 captured by UK 1.6.1794 (America)
Duguay-Trouin     Arsenal de Brest 1787 30.10.1788 7/1790 captured by UK 8.1793, fire 18.12.1793
Jupiter, 3.1794- Montagnard, 5.1795- Démocrate, 5.1795- Jupiter, 12.1797- Batave     Arsenal de Brest 6/1788 4.11.1789 10/1790 condemned 1.1807
Vengeur     Arsenal de Brest 23.5.1788 16.12.1789 20.8.1790 wrecked 12.12.1792
Suffren, 5.1795- Redoutable     Arsenal de Brest 15.1.1789 31.5.1791 12/1792 captured by UK 21.10.1805
Nestor, 12.1797- Cisalpin, 2.1803- Aquilon     Arsenal de Brest 10/1790 22.7.1793 10/1793 wrecked 11.4.1809
Tigre     Arsenal de Brest 1/1791 8.5.1793 8/1793 captured by UK 22.6.1795
Scipion     Arsenal de Toulon 1789 30.7.1790 11/1790 captured by UK and Spain 29.8.1793
Pompée     Arsenal de Toulon 1790 28.5.1791 2/1793 captured by UK and Spain 29.8.1793 (RN Pompée)
Duquesne     Arsenal de Toulon 1/1788 2.9.1788 1789 captured by UK 25.7.1803 (Duquesne)
Barra, 10.1795- Pégase, 12.1797- Hoche     Arsenal de Toulon 11/1791 23.3.1794 2/1795 captured by UK 12.10.1798 (Donegal)
Tonnerre     Arsenal de Brest 22.9.1794 9.6.1808 9/1808 wrecked 12.4.1809
Constitution (ex-Viala), 2.1803- Jupiter     Arsenal de Lorient-Caudan 19.2.1794 28.9.1795 5/1796 captured by UK 6.2.1806 (Maida)
Quatorze Juillet     Arsenal de Lorient-Caudan 8/1794 1.2.1798 3.2.1798 fire 29.4.1798
Union, 2.1803- Diomède     Arsenal de Lorient-Caudan 9/1794 1.8.1799 2/1800 wrecked 6.2.1806
Scipion     Arsenal de Lorient-Caudan 22.9.1798 29.3.1801 9/1801 captured by UK 4.11.1805
Impétueux (ex-Brutus)     Arsenal de Lorient-Caudan 22.9.1798 24.1.1803 3/1803 wrecked 14.9.1806
Régulus     Arsenal de Lorient-Caudan 7/1802 12.4.1805 7/1805 fired by crew 7.4.1814
Courageux (ex-Alcide)     Arsenal de Lorient 7/1802 3.2.1806 4/1806 stricken 1827
D'Hautpoul (ex-Courageux)     Arsenal de Lorient 6/1803 2.9.1807 2/1808 captured by UK 17.4.1809 (Abercrombie)
Jean-Jacques Rousseau, 12.1802- Marengo     Arsenal de Toulon 9/1794 21.7.1795 10/1796 captured by UK 13.3.1806 (Marengo)
Spartiate     Arsenal de Toulon 11/1794 24.11.1798 3/1798 captured by UK 2.8.1798
Duguay-Trouin     Arsenal de Rochefort // Enterprise Destouches 15.11.1794 25.3.1800 11/1800 captured by UK 4.11.1805 (Implacable)
Aigle     Arsenal de Rochefort // Enterprise Destouches 26.12.1794 6.7.1800 2/1801 captured by UK 21.10.1805
Héros     Arsenal de Rochefort // Enterprise Destouches 15.1.1795 10.5.1801 10/1801 captured by Spain 14.6.1808 (Heroe)
Magnanime     Arsenal de Rochefort 6.5.1802 17.8.1803 12/1803 stricken 1.1820
Lion     Arsenal de Rochefort 8.7.1802 11.2.1804 6/1804 wrecked 26.10.1809
Achille     Arsenal de Rochefort 5.11.1802 17.11.1804 2/1805 sunk 21.10.1805
Ajax     Arsenal de Rochefort 23.11.1804 17.6.1806 9/1806 floating battery 4.1815, stricken 3.1818
Triomphant     Arsenal de Rochefort 27.6.1806 31.3.1809 5/1809 condemned 7.1822
Polonais (ex-Glorieux), 4.1814- Lys, 3.1815- Polonais, 7.1815- Lys     Arsenal de Lorient-Caudan 2/1805 27.5.1808 6/1808 condemned 7.1822
Golymin (ex-Inflexible)     Arsenal de Lorient-Caudan 6/1805 8.12.1808 10/1809 wrecked 23.3.1814
Marengo     Arsenal de Lorient 19.9.1806 12.10.1810 4/1811 stricken 7.1858
Danube     Arsenal de Toulon 1.6.1807 21.12.1808 8/1809 school ship 12.1822
Ulm     Arsenal de Toulon 2.3.1807 25.5.1809 8/1809 stricken 1828
Trajan     Antwerp 9/1807 15.8.1811 4/1812 stricken 3.1827
Gaulois     Antwerp 9/1807 14.4.1812 8/1812 stricken 3.1827
Superbe     Antwerp 1808-09 5.7.1814 9/1814 wrecked 15.12.1833
Belliqueux     Antwerp 7/1811 --- --- sold incomplete after 8.1814
Alcide     Antwerp 8/1811 --- --- sold incomplete after 8.1814
Aigle     Antwerp 8/1811 --- --- sold incomplete after 8.1814
Impétueux     Antwerp 11/1811 --- --- sold incomplete after 8.1814
Triton (ex-Vénitien, ex-Triton, ex-Vénitien)     Arsenal de Rochefort 9/1814 22.9.1823 12/1826 floating battery 9.1847, hulk 9.1847
Duc de Berry (ex-Glorieux, ex-Duc de Berry, ex-Glorieux, ex-Couronne), 8.1830- Glorieux, 10.1831- Minerve     Arsenal de Rochefort 13.1.1812 18.6.1818 7/1818 frigate 10.1834, school ship 8.1848
Capri     Castellammare de Stabia, Neapolitan Kingdom late 1808 21.8.1810 1/1812 captured by UK 28.4.1815
Gioacchino     Castellammare de Stabia, Neapolitan Kingdom 9/1810 1.8.1812 5/1813 captured by UK 28.4.1815
Nestor     Arsenal de Brest 2/1809 21.5.1810 9/1810 stricken 8.1849
Orion     Arsenal de Brest 18.5.1810 9.10.1813 2/1814 school ship 5.1827
Couronne, 2.1848- Barricade, 12.1849- Duperré     Arsenal de Brest 15.10.1813 26.8.1824 1825 transport 12.1854
Trident     Arsenal de Toulon 15.11.1809 9.6.1811 9/1812 sail transport 3.1854
Romulus, 6.1821- Guerrière     Arsenal de Toulon 12/1809 31.5.1812 9/1812 frigate 3.1821, stricken 11.1840
Ville de Marseille     Arsenal de Toulon 27.6.1811 15.8.1812 12/1812 floating barracks 2.1855
Colosse, 10.1825- Pallas     Arsenal de Toulon 7/1812 5.12.1813 1/1814 frigate 10.1827, stricken 9.1840
Provence (ex-Hercule, ex-Kremlin, ex-Provence, ex-Kremlin), 7.1830- Alger     Arsenal de Toulon 9/1812 26.5.1815 8/1815 floating hospital 1856
Agamemnon, 4.1824- Amphitrite     Genoa 4/1809 23.2.1812 8/1812 frigate 12.1823, stricken 1.1836
Scipion     Genoa 2/1812 5.9.1813 2/1814 stricken 2.1846
Brilliant     Genoa 2/1812 18.4.1815 --- captured incomplete by British 18.4.1814 (Genoa)
Brave     Genoa 9/1813 --- --- captured on the stocks by British 18.4.1814, dismantled
Duguay-Trouin     Arsenal de Cherbourg 6.5.1811 10.11.1813 5/1814 condemned 12.1824
Jean Bart     Arsenal de Lorient 21.6.1811 25.8.1820 12/1820 floating storage 1830
Généreux     Arsenal de Cherbourg 3.7.1813 23.9.1831 1832 stricken 11.1855

 

Displacement normal, t

3069

Displacement full, t

 

Length, m

55.9 pp

Breadth, m

14.5

Draught, m

7.15

No of shafts

 

Machinery

sails

Power, h. p.

 

Max speed, kts

 

Fuel, t

 

Endurance, nm(kts)

 

Armament

28 x 1 - 175/16 36pdr SBML, 30 x 1 - 139/18 18pdr SBML, 16 x 1 - 106/24 8pdr SBML

completed since 1790: 28 x 1 - 175/16 36pdr SBML, 4 x 1 - 175/3 36pdr SBML carronades, 30 x 1 - 139/18 18pdr SBML, 16 x 1 - 106/24 8pdr SBML

completed since 1810: 28 x 1 - 175/16 36pdr SBML, 10 x 1 - 173/8 36pdr SBML carronades, 30 x 1 - 139/18 18pdr SBML, 12 x 1 - 106/24 8pdr SBML

Complement

495 (705 wartime)

Project history: 1782 design by Jacques-Noël Sané. 74-gun two-deckers.

Modernizations: since 1787, all completed: + 4 x 1 - 175/3 36pdr SBML obusiers

1794, Agricola as frigate: was armed with 28 x 1 - 175/16 36pdr SBML,14 x 1 - 139/18 18pdr SBML

By 1810, almost all completed and survived: were armed with 28 x 1 - 175/16 36pdr SBML, 10 x 1 - 173/8 36pdr SBML carronades, 30 x 1 - 139/18 18pdr SBML, 12 x 1 - 106/24 8pdr SBML

1821, Guerrière; 1823, Agamenon (presumably); 1827, Pallas: as frigates were armed with 28 x 1 - 175/16 36pdr SBML, 28 x 1 - 173/8 36pdr SBML carronades, 2 x 1 - 139/18 18pdr SBML

by 1830, Guerrière, Pallas: - 2 x 1 - 175/16; + 2 x 1 - 223/11 shell SBML

1834, Minerve: as frigate was armed with 2 x 1 - 223/11 shell SBML, 26 x 1 - 175/16 36pdr SBML, 28 x 1 - 173/8 36pdr SBML carronades, 2 x 1 - 139/18 18pdr SBML

Naval service: Superbe was lost off Brest 30.1.1795. Généreux was captured 18.2.1800 by British ships S of Sicily and commissioned by them under the same name. Fougueux was captured by boarding by British at Trafalgar 21.10.1805 but abandoned by them in the storm and went ashore 28.10.1805 on the Santi Petri reefs E of Cadiz. Timoléon was fired by crew at the Battle of the Nile (Aboukir) 2.8.1798 to avoid capture by British. Tricolore, Thémistocles and Duguay-Trouin handed over to Anglo-Spanish forces at Toulon in August 1793 and fired during the evacuation 18.12.1793. Patriote handed over to Anglo-Spanish forces at Toulon in August 1793 but returned to France in September, hard damaged by high winds 19.8.1806 off E US coast. Phocion handed over to Spanish at Trinidad 11.1.1793 by pro-Royalist crew and next year entered the Spanish Navy. Léopard grounded 17.2.1793 off Cagliari and fired by crew two days later to avoid capture by British. Entreprenant was captured by British and Spanish troops at Toulon in August 1793 but returned to France next month. Jean Bart wrecked 26.2.1809 on the Palles rock near Île d'Aix, wreck was taken by British and fired by them in April that year. Desaix wrecked 15.2.1802 on the reefs of Cape Français (Santo Domingo), wreck was destroyed by British. Droits de L'Homme wrecked off Audierne after combat against HMS Indefatigable and Amazon 13.1.1797. Brave was captured by British at Santo Domingo 6.2.1806 and foundered off Azores in April en route to Britain. Hercule was captured by Royal Navy 20.4.1798 and commissioned by them under the same name. Argonaute was in bad condition after Trafalgar and was ceded to Spain at Cadiz 18.12.1806 (used as prison hulk). Impétueux and America were captured by RN ships at Battle of Glorious First of June 1.6.1794 and commissioned by RN as Impetueux and America. Apollon was taken by British and Spanish forces at Toulon in August 1793 but restored to Revolutionary forces next month. Aquilon was captured by British ships at the Battle of the Nile (Aboukir) and commissioned by RN as Aboukir. Mont Blanc was captured by British ships off Cape Ortegal 4.11.1805 after Trafalgar and commissioned by RN under the same name. Formidable was captured by HMS Barfleur in action off Ile Groix 22.6.1795 and commissioned by RN as Belleisle. Vengeur grounded off Ajaccio 12.12.1792, abandoned and fired 8.6.1793. Redoutable was captured by British ships 21.10.1805 at Trafalgar and sank under tow in the storm 22.10.1805. Aquilon grounded 11.4.1809 on the Palles rock after attack of RN fireship and destroyed by British 14.4.1809. Tigre was captured by RN ships in the action of Ile Groix 22.6.1795. Scipion with Freench Royalist crew handed over to British and Spanish forces at Toulon 29.8.1793 and accidentally burnt at Livorno 20.11.1793. Pompée was captured by British and Spanish forces at Toulon 29.8.1793 and commissioned by RN under the same name. Duquesne was captured by British ships off Santo Domingo 25.7.1803 and commissioned by the RN under the same name. Barra was captured by HMS Robust off Lough Swilly 12.10.1798 and became RN Donegal. Tonnerre grounded near Île Madame during Britsh fireship attack at Île d'Aix 12.4.1809 and fired by crew. Jupiter was captured by British ships 6.2.1806 at Santo Domingo and became HMS Maida. Quatorze Juillet accidentally burnt at Lorient 29.4.1798. Diomède ran aground at Santo Domingo 6.2.1806 to avoid capture by British and fired by them 9.2.1806. Scipion was captured by British ship off Cape Ortegal 4.11.1805 after Trafalgar and commissioned by RN under the same name. Impétueux was dismasted in a violent storm 19.8.1806, drifted until 10.9.1806, chased by British ships at the mouth of the Chesapeake, ran ashore 14.9.1806 at Cape Henry, surrendered and burnt by British. Régulus was fire by crew 7.4.1814 in the Gironde to avoid capture by British forces. D'Hautpoul was captured by British ships 17.4.1809 off Puerto Rico and became HMS Abercrombie. Marengo was captured by British ships 13.3.1806 off Cape Verde Islands and entered RN under the same name. Spartiate was captured by HMS Theseus and Vanguard 2.8.1798 at Aboukir and commissioned by RN under the same name. Duguay-Trouin was captured by British ships off Cape Ortegal 4.11.1805 after Trafalgar and commissioned by RN as Implacable. Aigle was captured by British ships 21.10.1805 at Trafalgar but wrecked 22.10.1805 off Puerto Santa Maria near Cadiz in the storm. Héros surrendered 14.6.1808 at Cadiz to Spanish insurgents and became Spanish Heroe. Lion grouned near Sète 26.10.1809 and burnt be crew to avoid capture by British ships. Achille caught fire and exploded at Trafalgar 21.10.1805. Golymin wrecked at the rock in the Goulet near Brest and sank there 23.3.1814. Superbe wrecked 15.12.1833 on Island Paros (Greece). Capri and Gioacchino handed over to British 28.4.1815, taken by them to Malta and transferred next year to Neapolitans, becoming Capri and San Fernando.

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