French ship Quatorze Juillet (1798)

History
Scale model of the Achille, sister-ship of French ship Quatorze Juillet (1798), on display at the Musée de la Marine in Paris.
France
Name:	Quatorze Juillet
Namesake:	Bastille day
Ordered:	23 May 1794
Builder:	Lorient
Laid down:	August 1794
Launched:	1 February 1798
Struck:	28 April 1798
General characteristics ^[1]
Class & 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:	74 guns: Lower gundeck: 28 × 36-pounder long guns Upper gundeck: 30 × 18-pounder long guns Forecastle and Quarter deck: 16 × 8-pounder long guns 4 × 36-pounder carronades
Armour:	Timber

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

During her completion, she was accidentally set afire and was destroyed before being commissioned.

References

↑ Clouet, Alain (2007). "La marine de Napoléon III : classe Téméraire - caractéristiques". dossiersmarine.free.fr (in French). Retrieved 14 April 2013.

Roche, Jean-Michel (2005). Dictionnaire des bâtiments de la flotte de guerre française de Colbert à nos jours 1 1671 - 1870. ISBN 978-2-9525917-0-6. OCLC 165892922.
Troude, Onésime-Joachim (1867). Batailles navales de la France 3. Challamel ainé. p. 133.

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