French ship Quatorze Juillet (1798)
 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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| 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 |
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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.
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