French ship Austerlitz (1808)
 1/48 scale model of the Océan class 120-gun ship of the line Commerce de Marseille, sister-ship of the Austerlitz. On display at Marseille naval museum. | |
| History | |
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 France
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| Name: | Austerlitz |
| Ordered: | 1805 |
| Completed: | 1808 |
| Fate: | broken up in 1837 |
| General characteristics | |
| Class & type: | Océan class ship of the line |
| Displacement: | 2 700 tonnes |
| Length: | 65.18 m (213.8 ft) (196,6 French feet) |
| Beam: | 16.24 m (53.3 ft) (50 French feet) |
| Draught: | 8.12 m (26.6 ft) (25 French feet) |
| Propulsion: | sail, 3 265 m² |
| Complement: | 1 079 men |
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| Armour: | Timber |
The Austerlitz was a first-rate 118-gun ship of the line of the French Navy, of the Océan type, designed by Jacques-Noël Sané.
Ordered on 19 December 1805 to reinforce the Navy after the disaster of Trafalgar, she was commissioned in Toulon in May 1809 under Captain Guien. On 29 August 1814, after the Hundred Days, she was transferred from Toulon to Brest, along with Wagram and Commerce de Paris, where she was disarmed in December. The Austerlitz was eventually struck and broken up in 1837.
References
- Roche, Jean-Michel (2005). Dictionnaire des bâtiments de la flotte de guerre française de Colbert à nos jours 1 1671 - 1870. ISBN 978-2-9525917-0-6. OCLC 165892922.
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