French ship Audacieux (1784)

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

Scale model of Achille, sister ship of French ship Audacieux (1784), on display at the Musée national de la Marine in Paris.
History
France
Name	Audacieux
Namesake	"Audacious"
Ordered	15 February 1782
Builder	Lorient
Laid down	8 July 1782
Launched	28 August 1784
Commissioned	1785
Fate	Broken up in Brest in 1803
General characteristics
Class and type	Téméraire-class ship of the line
Displacement	1,966 tonnes 3,260 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

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

Between 1791 and 1793, she was decommissioned in Lorient. She joined active service again in 1793, and the next year, she salvaged the Révolutionnaire, dismasted after the Glorious First of June.

She was eventually broken up in 1803.

See also

• List of ships of the line of France

References

• Winfield, Rif; Roberts, Stephen S (2015). French Warships in the Age of Sail 1786—1862: Design Construction, Careers and Fates. Seaforth. ISBN 978-1-84832-204-2.