French ship Thésée (1790)
Appearance
Scale model of Achille, sister ship of French ship Thésée (1790), on display at the Musée national de la Marine in Paris.
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History | |
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France | |
Name | Thésée |
Namesake | Theseus |
Ordered | 19 October 1787 |
Builder | Rochefort |
Laid down | March 1788 |
Launched | 14 April 1790 |
In service | August 1790 |
Out of service | 7 December 1804 |
Renamed |
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Fate | Broken up in 1816 |
General characteristics | |
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 |
Thésée was a Téméraire-class 74-gun ship of the line of the French Navy. As Révolution, she took part in the Expédition d'Irlande under Pierre Dumanoir le Pelley.
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