French ship Téméraire (1749)
Téméraire was a 74-gun ship of the line of the French Navy, ordered in December 1747 to a design by François Coulomb, and built at Toulon by his cousin, the constructor Pierre-Blaise Coulomb; she was launched on 24 December 1749.[1] Her 74 guns comprised:
28 x 36-pounders on the lower deck
30 x 18-pounders on the upper deck
10 x 8-pounders on the quarterdeck
6 x 8-pounders on the forecastle.
| History | |
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| Name: | Téméraire |
| Ordered: | 18 December 1747 |
| Builder: | Pierre-Blaise Coulomb, Toulon Dockyard |
| Laid down: | August 1748 |
| Launched: | 24 December 1749 |
| Commissioned: | 1750 |
| Captured: | 18 August 1759, by Royal Navy |
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| Name: | Temeraire |
| Acquired: | 18 August 1759 |
| Fate: | Sold, June 1784 |
| General characteristics [1] | |
| Class and type: | 74-gun third rate ship of the line |
| Tons burthen: | 1685 tons (1712 tonnes) |
| Length: | 161¾ French feet[2] |
| Beam: | 43½ French feet |
| Draught: | 19 French feet |
| Depth of hold: | 21 French feet |
| Propulsion: | Sails |
| Sail plan: | Full-rigged ship |
| Complement: | 680, + 6/13 officers |
| Armament: | 74 guns of various weights of shot |
HMS Warspite under Admiral Boscawen captured Téméraire at the Battle of Lagos on 18 August 1759. She was thus taken into the Royal Navy and recommissioned as the Third Rate HMS Temeraire.[1]
By 1780 she was used as a floating battery used to protect the harbour at Plymouth. She was sold in 1783.[3]
Fate
Temeraire was sold out of the navy in 1784.[1]
Notes
- Lavery, Ships of the Line vol.1. p178.
- The French (pre-metric) foot was 6.575% longer than the contemporary British unit of measurement of that name.
- Famous Fighters of the Fleet. Edward Fraser, 1904, p.217
References
- Lavery, Brian (2003) The Ship of the Line - Volume 1: The development of the battlefleet 1650-1850. Conway Maritime Press. ISBN 0-85177-252-8.
- Winfield, Rif and Roberts, Stephen S., French Warships in the Age of Sail 1626-1786: Design, Construction, Careers and Fates. (Seaforth Publishing, 2017) ISBN 978-1-4738-9351-1.
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