French ship Téméraire (1782)

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

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 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

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

Career

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

She took part in the Bataille du 13 prairial an 2, battling HMS Russell, under Captain Morel. ^[1]

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

1. Roche (2005), p. 432.
2. Contenson (1934), p. 167.

References

• Contenson, Ludovic (1934). La Société des Cincinnati de France et la guerre d'Amérique (1778-1783). Paris: éditions Auguste Picard. OCLC 7842336.
• Roche, Jean-Michel (2005). Dictionnaire des bâtiments de la flotte de guerre française de Colbert à nos jours 1 1671–1870. ISBN 978-2-9525917-0-6. OCLC 165892922.

External links

• Ships of the line