French ship Téméraire (1782)

Scale model of Achille, sister ship of French ship Téméraire (1782), on display at the Musée national de la Marine in Paris.
History
France
Name	Téméraire [1]
Namesake	"Temerarious"
Builder	Brest [1]
Laid down	May 1782 [1]
Launched	17 December 1782 [1]
Commissioned	July 1783 [1]
Fate	Broken up in 1803 [1]
General characteristics
Class and type	Téméraire-class ship of the line [1]
Displacement	1966 tonnes 3260 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	74 guns: Lower gundeck: 28 × 36-pounder long guns Upper gundeck: 30 × 18-pounder long guns Forecastle and Quarter deck: 16 × 8-pounder long guns 4 × 36-pounder carronades
Armour	Timber

Téméraire was the lead ship of the

In 1782 or 1783, she was under Sainte-Eulalie.^[2]

She took part in the

She took part in the Croisière du Grand Hiver of winter 1794-1795, but sustained damage when a leak opened in her hull in the night of the 30 to 31 December, and she had to return to Saint Malo. ^[1]

Fate

From 1798, Téméraire was in a state of disrepair and needed to be refitted or demolished. She was eventually condemned in 1802 and broken up in 1803.^[1]

Citations

References

• OCLC 7842336
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• Roche, Jean-Michel (2005). Dictionnaire des bâtiments de la flotte de guerre française de Colbert à nos jours 1 1671–1870.
  OCLC 165892922
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• Ships of the line