French ship Orion (1813)

Scale model of Achille, sister ship of French ship Orion (1813), on display at the Musée de la Marine in Paris.
History
France
Name:	Orion
Namesake:	Orion.
Builder:	Brest[1]
Laid down:	18 May 1810 [1]
Launched:	9 October 1813 [1]
Commissioned:	22 November 1813 [1]
Decommissioned:	1841 [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

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

Career

Orion was commissioned in 1814 under Captain Jean-Baptiste Billard.^[1][3]

In 1827, Orion was chosen as a school ship of the École navale. She was replaced by Borda in 1840, and struck in 1841.^[1]

Notes, citations, and references

Notes

Citations

1. Roche, vol.1, p.336
2. Clouet, Alain (2007). "La marine de Napoléon III : classe Téméraire - caractéristiques". dossiersmarine.free.fr. Retrieved 4 April 2013.
3. Quintin, p.67-68

References

• Quintin, Danielle; Quintin, Bernard (2003). Dictionnaire des capitaines de Vaisseau de Napoléon (in French). S.P.M. p. 67. 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. 336. ISBN 978-2-9525917-0-6. OCLC 165892922.