French ship César (1807)
Appearance
Scale model of Achille, sister ship of French ship César (1807), on display at the Musée national de la Marine in Paris.
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History | |
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Name | César |
Namesake | Julius Caesar |
Builder | Antwerp[1] |
Laid down | April 1804 [1] |
Launched | 21 June 1807 [1] |
Fate | Ceded to the Netherlands 1 August 1814, broken up 1821 |
General characteristics [2] | |
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 |
César was a Téméraire-class 74-gun ship of the line of the French Navy.
Career
[edit]Ordered on 24 April 1804, César was one of the ships built in the various shipyards captured by the First French Empire in Holland and Italy in a crash programme to replenish the ranks of the French Navy.
She was commissioned on 23 June 1807 [3] but remained inactive from October to April 1808.[1]
In March 1809, ten deserters stole a launch and escaped the ship, only to be captured by the 4-gun Actif. In 1814, she took part in the defence of Antwerp, and was sailed to Brest after the Bourbon Restoration.[1] She was ceded to the Netherlands on 1 August 1814 and renamed Prins Frederik serving until 1821 when she was broken up.[4]
Citations
[edit]- ^ a b c d e Roche, vol.1, p.105
- ^ Clouet, Alain (2007). "La marine de Napoléon III : classe Téméraire - caractéristiques". dossiersmarine.free.fr. Archived from the original on 23 March 2013. Retrieved 4 April 2013.
- ^ Quintin, p.266
- ^ Winfield p.95
References
[edit]- Quintin, Danielle; Quintin, Bernard (2003). Dictionnaire des capitaines de Vaisseau de Napoléon (in French). S.P.M. p. 266. 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. Roche. p. 105. ISBN 978-2-9525917-0-6. OCLC 165892922.
- Winfield, Rif (2015). French warships in the age of sail, 1786-1861. Barnsley. ISBN 978-1-84832-204-2.
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