French ship Jean Bart (1820)

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

Scale model of Achille, sister ship of French ship Jean Bart (1820), on display at the Musée national de la Marine in Paris.
History
France
Name	Jean Bart
Namesake	Jean Bart
Builder	Lorient[1]
Laid down	1811[1]
Launched	25 August 1820[1]
Decommissioned	26 October 1833[1]
Fate	Broken up 1833
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

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

Career

Ordered in 1811, Jean Bart was not completed before 1820, long after the fall of the French Empire she was meant to defend and after the Bourbon Restoration. Commissioned under Captain Menouvrier-Defresne, she cruised off Brazil in before returning to Brest. In 1823, she captured the Spanish merchantman Nueva Veloce Mariana before patrolling the Caribbean.^[1]

She cruised off South America again from 1828 to 1829 before being hulked in 1830. She was eventually scrapped in 1833.^[1]

Citations

1. Roche, vol.1, p.265
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. Roche. p. 265. ISBN 978-2-9525917-0-6. OCLC 165892922.