French ship Borée (1785)

For other ships with the same name, see French ship Borée and French ship Ça Ira.

Scale model of Achille, sister ship of French ship Borée (1785), on display at the Musée national de la Marine in Paris.
History
France
Name	Borée
Namesake	Boreas
Builder	Lorient[1]
Laid down	January 1783[1]
Launched	17 November 1785[1]
Commissioned	August 1787[1]
Decommissioned	1803
Fate	Broken up 1803
General characteristics [2]
Class and type	Téméraire-class ship of the line
Displacement	1,966 tonnes 3,260 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: 16 × 8-pounder long guns 4 × 36-pounder carronades
Armour	Timber

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

Career

In 1790, she joined the Brest squadron. Between May 1792 and January 1793, under Captain de Grimouard, she escorted a convoy from Saint Domingue to Rochefort, before being decommissioned.

On 12 April 1794, she was ordered razeed into a 50-gun frigate and renamed Ça Ira. Two months later, she was again renamed to Agricola. Recommissioned on 24 June, she served for two years before being hulked in Rochefort and used as a hospital.

She was eventually broken up in 1803

Citations

1. Roche, vol.1, p.79
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. 198. ISBN 978-2-9525917-0-6. OCLC 165892922.