French ship Éole (1789)
 Scale model of Achille, sister ship of French ship Éole (1789), on display at the Musée national de la Marine in Paris.
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| History | |
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   France | |
| Name | Éole |
| Namesake | Aeolus |
| Builder | Lorient |
| Laid down | 1 June 1787 |
| Launched | 15 November 1789 |
| Commissioned | August 1790 |
| Fate | Broken up in Baltimore in 1816 |
| General characteristics [1] | |
| Class and type | Téméraire-class ship of the line |
| Displacement |
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| 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 |
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| Armour | Timber |
Éole was a Téméraire class 74-gun ship of the line of the French Navy.
Between 1791 and 1793, she was based in Saint-Domingue. She took part in the Glorious First of June, where she and Trajan dismasted HMS Bellerophon.
She later took part in the Expédition d'Irlande, an ill-fated attempt to invade Ireland.
On 19 August 1806, during the Atlantic campaign of 1806, she was dismasted by a tempest off Martinique, and had to be taken in tow by American ships to Annapolis. She was eventually condemned in 1811, and broken up in 1816.
Several of her 36-pounder long guns were loaned to Fort McHenry in 1813 and used in the defence of Baltimore in September 1814.
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[edit]References
[edit]- ^ Clouet, Alain (2007). "La marine de Napoléon III : classe Téméraire - caractéristiques". dossiersmarine.free.fr (in French). Archived from the original on 23 March 2013. Retrieved 4 April 2013.
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