 Scale model of Achille, sister ship of French ship Dantzig (1807), on display at the Musée national de la Marine in Paris. | |
| History | |
|---|---|
 France | |
| Name | Dantzig |
| Namesake | Siege of Danzig |
| Builder | Antwerp[1] |
| Laid down | May 1805 [1] |
| Launched | 15 August 1807 [1] |
| Decommissioned | 1815 [1] |
| Fate | Struck mid 1816 |
| General characteristics [2] | |
| Class and type | Téméraire-class ship of the line |
| Displacement |
|
| 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 |
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| Armour | Timber |
Dantzig was a Téméraire-class 74-gun ship of the line of the French Navy.
Career
Ordered on 24 April 1804 as Illustre, Dantzig 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.
In 1807, she crossed from Antwerp to Vlissingen for fitting out.[1]
At the Bourbon Restoration, she was renamed to Achille. Found to need a complete refit on 10 June 1816 she was struck later that year.[3]
Citations
- 1 2 3 4 5 Roche, vol.1, p.140
- ↑ Clouet, Alain (2007). "La marine de Napoléon III : classe Téméraire - caractéristiques". dossiersmarine.free.fr. Archived from the original on 23 March 2013. Retrieved 4 April 2013.
- ↑ Winfield p.96
References
- Roche, Jean-Michel (2005). Dictionnaire des bâtiments de la flotte de guerre française de Colbert à nos jours 1 1671 - 1870. Roche. p. 140. ISBN 978-2-9525917-0-6. OCLC 165892922.
- Winfield, Rif (2015). French warships in the age of sail, 1786-1861. Barnsley. ISBN 978-1-84832-204-2.
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