French ship Anversois

	Scale model of Achille, sister ship of French ship Anversois, on display at the Musée national de la Marine in Paris.
History
France
Name	Anversois
Builder	Antwerp
Laid down	May 1803
Launched	7 June 1807
Decommissioned	1815
Fate	Broken up 1819
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

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

Career

Ordered on 24 April 1804, Anversois 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.

In 1807, she crossed from Antwerp to Vlissingen for a refit. In 1814, she took part in the defence of the city, attacking the forts Frederick Henry on 21 March and Lacroix the next day.^[1]

At the Bourbon Restoration, she was renamed to Éole, returned to her original name during the Hundred Days, and Éole back again in 1815. In 1818, she was found to be in such poor state that she could not be used even as a hulk, and was broken up.^[1]

Citations

^ ^a ^b ^c ^d ^e ^f Roche, vol.1, p.44
^ 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. 44. ISBN 978-2-9525917-0-6. OCLC 165892922.
Winfield, Rif; Roberts, Stephen S (2015). French Warships in the Age of Sail 1786—1862: Design Construction, Careers and Fates. Seaforth. ISBN 978-1-84832-204-2.

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[roche44-1] ^ ^a ^b ^c ^d ^e ^f Roche, vol.1, p.44

[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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