French ship Quatorze Juillet (1798)
Appearance
![]() Scale model of Achille, sister ship of French ship Quatorze Juillet (1798), on display at the Musée national de la Marine in Paris.
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History | |
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Name | Quatorze Juillet |
Namesake | 14 July (for Bastille Day) |
Ordered | 23 May 1794 |
Builder | Lorient |
Laid down | August 1794 |
Launched | 1 February 1798 |
Stricken | 28 April 1798 |
Fate | Burned April 1798 |
General characteristics [1] | |
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 |
Quatorze Juillet was a Téméraire class 74-gun ship of the line of the French Navy.
During her fitting-out, she was accidentally set afire and was destroyed before being commissioned.
Citations
[edit]- ^ Clouet, Alain (2007). "La marine de Napoléon III : classe Téméraire – caractéristiques". dossiersmarine.free.fr (in French). Archived from the original on 23 March 2013. Retrieved 14 April 2013.
References
[edit]- Roche, Jean-Michel (2005). Dictionnaire des bâtiments de la flotte de guerre française de Colbert à nos jours 1 1671–1870. p. 369. ISBN 978-2-9525917-0-6. OCLC 165892922.
- Troude, Onésime-Joachim (1867). Batailles navales de la France. Vol. 3. Challamel ainé. p. 133.