French ship Thémistocle (1791)

Scale model of Achille, sister ship of French ship Thémistocle (1791), on display at the Musée de la Marine in Paris.
History
France
Name:	Thémistocle
Namesake:	Themistocles
Ordered:	19 October 1787[1]
Builder:	Lorient[1]
Laid down:	1 September 1789 [1]
Launched:	12 September 1790 [1]
Decommissioned:	September 1793[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: 16 × 8-pounder long guns 4 × 36-pounder carronades
Armour:	Timber

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

Career

Built in Lorient, Thémistocle was transfered to the Mediterranean soon after her commissioning to reinforce the squadron under Admiral Truguet.^[1] Seized by the British at the surrendering of Toulon by a Royalist cabale, she was used as a prison hulk during the Siege of Toulon. At the fall of the city, Captain Sidney Smith had her scuttled by fire, along with Héros.^[1]

The wreck was refloated in 1804 to be broken up.^[1]

Notes, citations, and references

Notes

Citations

1. Roche, vol.1, p.435
2. Clouet, Alain (2007). "La marine de Napoléon III : classe Téméraire - caractéristiques". dossiersmarine.free.fr. Retrieved 4 April 2013.

References

• Roche, Jean-Michel (2005). Dictionnaire des bâtiments de la flotte de guerre française de Colbert à nos jours 1 1671 - 1870. p. 435. ISBN 978-2-9525917-0-6. OCLC 165892922.