French ship César (1807)

For other ships with the same name, see French ship César.

Scale model of Achille, sister ship of French ship César (1807), on display at the Musée national de la Marine in Paris.
History
France
Name	César
Namesake	Julius Caesar
Builder	Antwerp
Laid down	April 1804
Launched	21 June 1807
Decommissioned	1817
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

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

Career

Ordered on 24 April 1804, César 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.

She was commissioned on 23 June 1807 under Captain Margollé, but remained inactive from October to April 1808.

In March 1809, ten deserters stole a launch and escaped the ship, only to be captured by the 4-gun Actif. In 1814, she took part in the defence of Antwerp, and was sailed to Brest after the Bourbon Restoration. She was put in ordinary there on 20 November 1814, and was struck before 1820.

Notes, citations, and references

References

• Quintin, Danielle; Quintin, Bernard (2003). Dictionnaire des capitaines de Vaisseau de Napoléon (in French). S.P.M. p. 266. ISBN 2-901952-42-9.
• Roche, Jean-Michel (2005). Dictionnaire des bâtiments de la flotte de guerre française de Colbert à nos jours 1 1671 - 1870. p. 105. ISBN 978-2-9525917-0-6. OCLC 165892922.