French ship Audacieux (1816)

Scale model of Achille, sister ship of French ship Audacieux (1816), on display at the Musée de la Marine in Paris.
History
France
Name: Audacieux
Builder: Schuyt, Amsterdam[1]
Laid down: 1811 [1]
Launched: 1813 [1]
Decommissioned: 14 November [1]
General characteristics [2]
Class and type: Téméraire-class ship of the line
Displacement:
  • 2,966 tonnes
  • 5,260 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:
Armour: Timber

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

Career

Audacieux 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.

The Dutch seized Audacieux when the French evacuated Amsterdam on 14 November 1813 and commissioned her as Colite, later renamed to Wassenaar. She was decommissioned in 1827. [1]

Notes, citations, and references

Notes

    Citations

    1. 1 2 3 4 5 Roche, vol.1, p.56
    2. ↑ Clouet, Alain (2007). "La marine de Napoléon III : classe Téméraire - caractéristiques". dossiersmarine.free.fr. Retrieved 4 April 2013.

    References

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