French ship Gaulois (1812)

Scale model of Achille, sister ship of French ship Gaulois (1812), on display at the Musée de la Marine in Paris.
History
France
Name:	Gaulois
Namesake:	Gaul
Builder:	Antwerp[1]
Laid down:	1807 [1]
Launched:	14 April 1812 [1]
Decommissioned:	1824 [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 m^2 (26,750 sq ft) of sails
Armament:	74 guns: Lower gundeck: 28 × 36-pounder long guns Upper gundeck: 30 × 18-pounder long guns Forecastle and Quarter deck: 6 × 8-pounder long guns 10 × 36-pounder carronades
Armour:	Timber

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

Career

Commissioned in Antwerp, Gaulois served in Missiessy's squadron under Captain Malin^[3] before being stationed at Antwerp in March, along with Trajan, for the defence of the town. ^[1]

At the Bourbon Restoration in 1814, she returned to Brest, where she was decommissioned. She was struck in 1827 and eventually broken up in 1831.^[1]

Notes, citations, and references

Notes

Citations

1. Roche, vol.1, p.222
2. Clouet, Alain (2007). "La marine de Napoléon III : classe Téméraire - caractéristiques". dossiersmarine.free.fr. Retrieved 4 April 2013.
3. Quintin, p.261

References

• Quintin, Danielle; Quintin, Bernard (2003). Dictionnaire des capitaines de Vaisseau de Napoléon (in French). S.P.M. p. 259-261. ISBN 2-901952-42-9.
• Roche, Jean-Michel (2005). Dictionnaire des bâtiments de la flotte de guerre française de Colbert à nos jours 1 1671 - 1870. p. 222. ISBN 978-2-9525917-0-6. OCLC 165892922.
• Winfield, Rif & Stephen S Roberts (2015) French Warships in the Age of Sail 1786 - 1861: Design Construction, Careers and Fates. (Seaforth Publishing). ISBN 9781848322042