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SHIPS-OF-THE-LINE, CAPITAL SHIPS & MONITORS

ACHILLE 3rd rate sailing ships-of-the-line (1798)

 

Name

No

Yard No

Builder

Laid down

Launched

Comp

Fate

Superb     Chatham DYd 8.1795 19.3.1798 30.6.1978 BU 4.1826
Achille     Chatham DYd 10.1795 16.4.1798 25.8.1798 BU 11.1865

 

Displacement normal, t

1916bm

Displacement full, t

 

Length, m

55.5 gundeck

Breadth, m

14.9

Draught, m

6.67

No of shafts

 

Machinery

sails

Power, h. p.

 

Max speed, kts

 

Fuel, t

 
Endurance, nm(kts)  

Armament

30 x 1 - 162/17 32pdr SBML, 12 x 1 - 159/8 32pdr SBML carronades, 30 x 1 - 148/18 24pdr SBML, 6 x 1 - 139/19 18pdr SBML, 6 x 1 - 139/8 18pdr carronades

Complement

640

Project history: 74-gun two-deckers, derived from draught of French prize Le Pompée.

Modernizations: 1839, Achille: - 2 x 1 - 159/8 32pdr SBML carronades; + 2 x 1 - 162/17 32pdr SBML

Naval service: No significant events.

 

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