French ship Piet Hein (1813)

Scale model of Achille, sister ship of French ship Piet Hein (1813), on display at the Musée de la Marine in Paris.
History
France
Name:	Piet Hein
Namesake:	Piet Pieterszoon Hein
Builder:	Venice[1]
Laid down:	January 1807 [1]
Launched:	15 August 1812[1]
Commissioned:	October 1812[1]
Decommissioned:	1838 [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

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

Career

Piet Hein, 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 built in Rotterdam under supervision of engineer Alexandre Notaire-Granville, following plans by Sané and using timber taken from the 80-gun Piet Hein,^[3] taken apart while still on keel.^[1]

Royal Italien was surrendered to Holland at the fall of Rotterdam in December 1813. She was renamed Admiraal Piet Hein, and eventually broken up in 1819. ^[1]

Notes, citations, and references

Notes

Citations

1. Demerliac, p.81, no 573
2. Clouet, Alain (2007). "La marine de Napoléon III : classe Téméraire - caractéristiques". dossiersmarine.free.fr. Retrieved 4 April 2013.
3. Demerliac, p.73, no 504

References

• Demerliac, Alain (2004). La Marine du Consulat et du Premier Empire: Nomenclature des Navires Français de 1800 à 1815 (in French). Éditions Ancre. p. 81. ISBN 2-903179-30-1.