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French ship Couronne (1813)

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Scale model of Achille, sister ship of French ship Couronne (1813), on display at the Musée national de la Marine in Paris.
History
France
NameCouronne
NamesakeCrown
BuilderSchuyt, Amsterdam[1]
Laid down1811 [1]
Launched1813 [1]
Decommissioned14 November [1]
General characteristics [2]
Class and typeTemplate:Sclass-
Displacement
  • 2,966 tonnes
  • 5,260 tonnes fully loaded
Length55.87 metres (183.3 ft) (172 pied)
Beam14.90 metres (48 ft 11 in)
Draught7.26 metres (23.8 ft) (22 pied)
PropulsionUp to 2,485 m2 (26,750 sq ft) of sails
Armament
ArmourTimber

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

Career

Couronne 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 Couronne when the French evacuated Amsterdam on 14 November 1813 and commissioned her as Prins Willem de Eerste. She was decommissioned in 1829. [1]

Notes, citations, and references

Notes

Citations

  1. ^ a b c d e Roche, vol.1, p.133
  2. ^ Clouet, Alain (2007). "La marine de Napoléon III : classe Téméraire - caractéristiques". dossiersmarine.free.fr. 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. 133. ISBN 978-2-9525917-0-6. OCLC 165892922.