Argonaute-class ship of the line
| Class overview | |
|---|---|
| Name | Argonaute |
| Operators |  French Navy |
| Completed | 2[1] |
| General characteristics | |
| Class and type | Argonaute class |
| Displacement | 1500 tonnes[2] |
| Length | 55.22 metres |
| Beam | 14.29 metres |
| Draught | 7.39 metres |
| Propulsion | Sails |
| Armament |
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The Argonaute class was a class of two 74-gun ships of the French Navy, built to a common design by naval constructor François-Guillaume Clairin-Deslauriers. The design was lengthened by 4feet 9½ inches (4½ pieds) from the designer's previous Scipion class, which had been found to lack stability. The designer died on 10 October 1780, and the construction of these ships was completed by Jean-Denis Chevillard, who was appointed his successor as ingénieur-constructeur en chef at that dockyard in July 1781.[1]
Ships
[edit]- Builder: Rochefort Dockyard
- Ordered: June 1779
- Begun: August 1779
- Launched: 5 June 1781
- Completed: December 1781
- Fate: Cut down (raséed) to a 'heavy' frigate 1793-94 and renamed Flibustier; disarmed in December 1795 and later taken to pieces.
- Builder: Lorient Dockyard
- Ordered: June 1779
- Begun: October 1779
- Launched: 6 June 1781
- Completed: November 1781
- Fate: Cut down (raséed) to a 'heavy' frigate 1793-94 (but not renamed); reduced to a hulk at Brest in January 1798, and later taken to pieces.
Notes and references
[edit]References
[edit]Bibliography
[edit]- Roche, Jean-Michel (2005). Dictionnaire des bâtiments de la flotte de guerre française de Colbert à nos jours. Vol. 1. Group Retozel-Maury Millau. p. 508. ISBN 978-2-9525917-0-6. OCLC 165892922.
- Winfield, Rif and Roberts, Stephen S. (2017) French Warships in the Age of Sail 1626–1786: Design, Construction, Careers and Fates. Seaforth Publishing. ISBN 978-1-4738-9351-1.
- Winfield, Rif and Roberts, Stephen S. (2015) French Warships in the Age of Sail 1786-1861: Design, Construction, Careers and Fates. Seaforth Publishing. ISBN 978-1-84832-204-2.