French ship Héros (1801)

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

Scale model of Achille, sister ship of French ship Héros (1801), on display at the Musée national de la Marine in Paris.
History
France
Name	Héros
Namesake	Hero
Builder	Rochefort
Laid down	1795
Launched	1801
Captured	1808
Spain
Name	Heroe
Fate	Broken up at Ferrol, 1845
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: 16 × 8-pounder long guns 4 × 36-pounder carronades
Armour	Timber

Héros was a 74-gun French ship of the line built at Rochefort from 1795 to 1801 by engineer Roland. She was one of the numerous Template:Sclass- ships designed by Jacques-Noël Sané.

Career

She took part in the French occupation of Santo Domingo, notably ferrying Toussaint Louverture to France after his arrest.

She took part to the Battle of Trafalgar under Commander Poulain, and was one of the five French ships to survive the battle, although Poulain was killed at 13:15 and replaced by Lieutenant Conor. She took part to the counter-attack led by Julien Cosmao, and returned to Cádiz, where she stayed until she was captured by the Spanish in 1808.

Renamed Heroe, she was broken up at Ferrol in 1845.

Notes and References

Bibliography

• Fonds Marine. Campagnes (opérations ; divisions et stations navales ; missions diverses). Inventaire de la sous-série Marine BB4. Tome deuxième : BB4 1 à 482 (1790-1826) [1]
• Troude, Onésime-Joachim (1867). Batailles navales de la France. Vol. 3. Challamel ainé. {{cite book}}: Cite has empty unknown parameter: |1= (help)