French ship Gaulois (1812)

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

Scale model of Achille, sister ship of French ship Gaulois (1812), on display at the Musée national de la Marine in Paris.
History
France
Name	Gaulois
Namesake	Gaul
Builder	Antwerp
Laid down	1807
Launched	14 April 1812
Decommissioned	1824
Fate	Broken up 1831
General characteristics
Class and type	Téméraire-class ship of the line
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: 6 × 8-pounder long guns 10 × 36-pounder carronades
Armour	Timber

Gaulois was a Téméraire-class 74-gun ship of the line of the French Navy.

Career

Commissioned in Antwerp, Gaulois served in Missiessy's squadron under Captain Malin before being stationed at Antwerp in March, along with Trajan, for the defence of the town.

At the Bourbon Restoration in 1814, she returned to Brest, where she was decommissioned. She was struck in 1827 and eventually broken up in 1831.

References

• Quintin, Danielle; Quintin, Bernard (2003). Dictionnaire des capitaines de Vaisseau de Napoléon (in French). S.P.M. pp. 259–261. ISBN 2-901952-42-9.
• Roche, Jean-Michel (2005). Dictionnaire des bâtiments de la flotte de guerre française de Colbert à nos jours 1 1671 - 1870. p. 222. ISBN 978-2-9525917-0-6. OCLC 165892922.
• Winfield, Rif & Stephen S Roberts (2015) French Warships in the Age of Sail 1786 - 1861: Design Construction, Careers and Fates. (Seaforth Publishing). ISBN 9781848322042