French ship Duguesclin (1807)
Scale model of Achille, sister ship of French ship Duguesclin (1807), on display at the Musée national de la Marine in Paris.
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History | |
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France | |
Name | Duguesclin |
Namesake | Bertrand du Guesclin |
Builder | Antwerp[1] |
Laid down | June 1804 [1] |
Launched | 1807 [1] |
Decommissioned | 1817 [1] |
General characteristics [2] | |
Class and type | Template:Sclass- |
Displacement |
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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 |
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Armour | Timber |
Duguesclin was a Template:Sclass- 74-gun ship of the line of the French Navy.
Career
Ordered on 24 April 1804, Duguesclin 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.[1]
Notes, citations, and references
Notes
Citations
References
- Roche, Jean-Michel (2005). Dictionnaire des bâtiments de la flotte de guerre française de Colbert à nos jours 1 1671 - 1870. p. 162. ISBN 978-2-9525917-0-6. OCLC 165892922.