French ship Pacificateur (1804)

Not to be confused with French ship Pacificateur (1811).

Scale model of Achille, sister ship of French ship Pacificateur (1804), on display at the Musée national de la Marine in Paris.
History
France
Name	Pacificateur
Namesake	"Peacemaker"
Builder	Brest[1]
Laid down	May 1801[1][2]
Fate	Broken up on stack 1804
General characteristics
Class and type	Téméraire-class ship of the line
Displacement	2 966 tonnes 5 260 tonnes fully loaded
Length	55.87 m (183.3 ft) (172 French feet)
Beam	14.90 m (48.9 ft) (44' 6)
Draught	7.26 m (23.8 ft) (22 French feet)
Propulsion	Up to 2 485 m² of sails
Complement	678 men
Armament	74 guns: Lower gundeck: 28 × 36-pounder long guns Upper gundeck: 30 × 24-pounder long guns Forecastle and Quarter deck: 16 × 8-pounder long guns 4 × 36-pounder carronades
Armour	Timber

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

Career

Pacificateur was started at Brest in May 1801, under the supervision of engineer Antoine Geoffroy and after plans by Sané.^[1] In 1804, recurrent difficulties in bringing construction timber to Brest, compounded by a criminal fire at the arsenal in February, led Bonaparte to order all construction ceased there.^[1]

Citations

1. Demerliac, p.74, no 515
2. Roche, vol.1, p.337

References

• Demerliac, Alain (2004). La Marine du Consulat et du Premier Empire: Nomenclature des Navires Français de 1800 à 1815 (in French). Éditions Ancre. p. 81. ISBN 2-903179-30-1.
• Roche, Jean-Michel (2005). Dictionnaire des bâtiments de la flotte de guerre française de Colbert à nos jours 1 1671–1870. p. 337. ISBN 978-2-9525917-0-6. OCLC 165892922.