French ship Polyphème (1817)

	Scale model of Achille, sister ship of French ship Polyphème (1817), on display at the Musée national de la Marine in Paris.
History
France
Name	Polyphème
Namesake	Polyphemus.
Builder	Schuyt, Amsterdam
Laid down	1812
Launched	July 1817
Fate	Seized by the Netherlands
Netherlands
Name	Holland
Namesake	Holland.
Decommissioned	1832
Fate	Broken up 1832
General characteristics
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 m2 (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

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

Career

Ordered in October 1812, Polyphème was one of the ships built in the various shipyards captured by the First French Empire in Holland and Italy in a crash programme to replenish the ranks of the French Navy.

The Dutch seized her, still on keel, after the French evacuated Amsterdam, and commissioned her in the Royal Netherlands Navy as Holland. She was broken up in 1832.^[1]

Citations

^ ^a ^b ^c ^d ^e Roche, vol.1, p.356
^ 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. 356. ISBN 978-2-9525917-0-6. OCLC 165892922.

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[roche356-1] Roche, vol.1, p.356

[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.

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