French ship Dantzig (1807)
 Scale model of Achille, sister ship of French ship Dantzig (1807), on display at the Musée national de la Marine in Paris.
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| History | |
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| Name | Dantzig |
| Namesake | Siege of Danzig |
| Builder | Antwerp[1] |
| Laid down | May 1805 [1] |
| Launched | 15 August 1807 [1] |
| Decommissioned | 1815 [1] |
| Fate | Struck mid 1816 |
| 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 |
Dantzig was a Téméraire-class 74-gun ship of the line of the French Navy.
Career
[edit]Ordered on 24 April 1804 as Illustre, Dantzig 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.
In 1807, she crossed from Antwerp to Vlissingen for fitting out.[1]
At the Bourbon Restoration, she was renamed to Achille. Found to need a complete refit on 10 June 1816 she was struck later that year.[3]
Citations
[edit]- ^ a b c d e Roche, vol.1, p.140
- ^ 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.
- ^ Winfield p.96
References
[edit]- Roche, Jean-Michel (2005). Dictionnaire des bâtiments de la flotte de guerre française de Colbert à nos jours 1 1671 - 1870. Roche. p. 140. 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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