French ship Ajax (1806)

	Scale model of Achille, sister ship of French ship Ajax (1806), on display at the Musée national de la Marine in Paris.
History
France
Name	Ajax
Namesake	Ajax
Builder	Lorient
Laid down	23 November 1804
Launched	17 June 1806
Decommissioned	1815
General characteristics
Class and type	Template:Sclass-
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

Ajax was a Template:Sclass- 74-gun ship of the line of the French Navy.

Career

Ajax was built at Rochefort along the lines of the Téméraire type designed by Jacques-Noël Sané, but with modifications brought by Engineers Rigault and Filhol; she is sometimes listed as a "82-gun ship". ^[1]

Commissioned under Captain Jean-Nicolas Petit, she replaced Jemmapes in Zacharie Allemand's squadron. In 1808, she transferred to Toulon, where she became an artillery hulk in 1815. ^[1]

Renamed Patiente in 1816, she became a prison hulk in 1818. ^[1]

Notes, citations, and references

Notes

Citations

^ ^a ^b ^c ^d ^e ^f ^g Roche, vol.1, p.29
^ 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. 29. ISBN 978-2-9525917-0-6. OCLC 165892922.

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[roche29-1] ^ ^a ^b ^c ^d ^e ^f ^g Roche, vol.1, p.29

[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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