French ship Duguesclin (1807)

	Scale model of Achille, sister ship of French ship Duguesclin (1807), on display at the Musée national de la Marine in Paris.
History
France
Name	Duguesclin
Namesake	Bertrand du Guesclin
Builder	Antwerp
Laid down	June 1804
Launched	20 June 1807
Decommissioned	1817
Fate	Broken up 1820
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

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

Career

Ordered on 24 April 1804, Duguesclin 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.^[1] Her breaking up was approved on 11 January 1820.^[3]

Citations

^ ^a ^b ^c ^d ^e Roche, vol.1, p.162
^ 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.
^ Winfield p.95

References

Roche, Jean-Michel (2005). Dictionnaire des bâtiments de la flotte de guerre française de Colbert à nos jours 1 1671 - 1870. Roche. p. 162. ISBN 978-2-9525917-0-6. OCLC 165892922.
Winfield, Rif (2015). French warships in the age of sail, 1786-1861. Barnsley. ISBN 978-1-84832-204-2.{{cite book}}: CS1 maint: location missing publisher (link)

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[roche162-1] Roche, vol.1, p.162

[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.

[3] Winfield p.95

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