French ship Pultusk (1807)

Scale model of Achille, sister ship of French ship Pultusk (1807), on display at the Musée de la Marine in Paris.
History
France
Name: Pultusk
Namesake: Battle of Pułtusk
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

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

Career

Ordered on 24 April 1804 as Audacieux, the ship 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 took her definitive name Pultusk on 21 February 1807, though the order might not have been implemented until 14 May.[1]

She was commissioned on 21 September 1807 and was part of the Escault squadon under Admiral Missiessy. She was ceded to Holland under the Treaty of Paris,[1] and entered Dutch service as Waterloo.

Notes, citations, and references

Notes

    Citations

    1. 1 2 3 4 5 6 Roche, vol.1, p.368
    2. ↑ Clouet, Alain (2007). "La marine de Napoléon III : classe Téméraire - caractéristiques". dossiersmarine.free.fr. Retrieved 4 April 2013.

    References

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