French ship Wattignies (1794)
 Scale model of Achille, sister ship of French ship Wattignies (1794), on display at the Musée national de la Marine in Paris.
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| History | |
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 France | |
| Namesake | Battle of Wattignies (1793) |
| Ordered | 3 July 1793 |
| Builder | Lorient shipyard |
| Launched | 8 October 1794 |
| Stricken | 5 September 1808 |
| Fate | Scrapped on 21 September 1808 |
| General characteristics | |
| Class and type | Téméraire-class ship of the line |
| 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 |
Wattignies was a 74-gun ship of the line of the French Navy.
She took part in the Expédition d'Irlande in 1798 under captain Antoine René Thévenard.
In July 1808, she was converted to a fluyt.
References
[edit]- Roche, Jean-Michel (2005). Dictionnaire des bâtiments de la flotte de guerre française de Colbert à nos jours 1 1671–1870. p. 475. ISBN 978-2-9525917-0-6. OCLC 165892922.
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