French ship Duguay-Trouin (1788)

For other ships with the same name, see French ship Duguay-Trouin.

Scale model of Achille, sister ship of French ship Duguay-Trouin (1788), on display at the Musée national de la Marine in Paris.
History
France
Name	Duguay-Trouin
Namesake	René Duguay-Trouin
Builder	Brest
Laid down	1787
Launched	30 October 1788
Commissioned	July 1790
Decommissioned	1793
General characteristics
Class and type	Template:Sclass-
Displacement	1,966 tonnes 3,260 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: 16 × 8-pounder long guns 4 × 36-pounder carronades
Armour	Timber

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

Career

In 1791, Duguay-Trouin ferried troops from Brest to Martinique and Saint Domingue, along with Amphitrite, Danaé, Éole, Apollon, Didon and Jupiter. The next year, she patrolled off Bretagne.

In 1793, Duguay-Trouin took part in the operations in Sardinia, and ran aground off Cagliari on 12 February, although she managed to break free on 19.

Present at Toulon when the city was surrendered to the British by a rebellion of Royalists, she was scuttled by fire at the end of the Siege of Toulon. The wreck was raised in 1807 and broken up.

Notes, citations, and references

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References

• Roche, Jean-Michel (2005). Dictionnaire des bâtiments de la flotte de guerre française de Colbert à nos jours 1 1671 - 1870. p. 198. ISBN 978-2-9525917-0-6. OCLC 165892922.