French ship Dalmate (1808)

Scale model of Achille, sister ship of French ship Dalmate (1808), on display at the Musée de la Marine in Paris.
History
France
Name: Dalmate
Namesake: Dalmatia
Builder: Antwerp[1]
Laid down: 22 August 1806 [1]
Launched: 21 August 1808 [1]
Decommissioned: 1819 [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

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

Career

Ordered on 11 August 1806, Dalmate 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 in 1808 and served under Captain Le Jaulne.[3] She was decommissioned in 1813, and her crew transferred on Friedland.[1]

At the Bourbon Restoration, she was renamed Hector, changed to Dalmate during the Hundred Days, and to Hector back again after Napoléon's second abdication. [1] She later served under Captain Baron Lemarant between 15 May to 22 June 1817,[4] and Bergeret from 13 September, cruising the Caribbean and returning to Rochefort on 4 February 1818.[5]

Notes, citations, and references

Notes

    Citations

    1. 1 2 3 4 5 6 Roche, vol.1, p.139
    2. ↑ Clouet, Alain (2007). "La marine de Napoléon III : classe Téméraire - caractéristiques". dossiersmarine.free.fr. Retrieved 4 April 2013.
    3. ↑ Quintin, p.226
    4. ↑ Quintin, p.230
    5. ↑ Quintin, p.59

    References

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