French ship César (1807)

Scale model of Achille, sister ship of French ship César (1807), on display at the Musée de la Marine in Paris.
History
France
Name: César
Namesake: Julius Caesar
Builder: Antwerp[1]
Laid down: April 1804 [1]
Launched: 21 June 1807 [1]
Decommissioned: 1817 [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

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

Career

Ordered on 24 April 1804, César 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.

She was commissioned on 23 June 1807 under Captain Margollé,[3] but remained inactive from October to April 1808.[1]

In March 1809, ten deserters stole a launch and escaped the ship, only to be captured by the 4-gun Actif. In 1814, she took part in the defence of Antwerp, and was sailed to Brest after the Bourbon Restoration. She was put in ordinary there on 20 November 1814, and was struck before 1820.[1]

Notes, citations, and references

Notes

    Citations

    1. 1 2 3 4 5 6 Roche, vol.1, p.105
    2. ↑ Clouet, Alain (2007). "La marine de Napoléon III : classe Téméraire - caractéristiques". dossiersmarine.free.fr. Retrieved 4 April 2013.
    3. ↑ Quintin, p.266

    References


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