French ship Albanais (1808)
 Scale model of Achille, sister ship of French ship Albanais (1808), on display at the Musée national de la Marine in Paris.
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| History | |
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 France | |
| Name | Albanais |
| Namesake | Albania |
| Builder | Antwerp[1] |
| Laid down | 1807 [1] |
| Launched | 2 October 1808 [1] |
| Fate | Ceded to Holland 1814, broken up 1817 |
| General characteristics [2] | |
| Class and type | Téméraire-class ship of the line |
| Displacement |
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| 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 |
Albanais was a Téméraire-class 74-gun ship of the line of the French Navy.
Career
[edit]Ordered on 31 July 1806, Albanais 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 was commissioned on 1 October 1808.[1] In March 1808, part of her crew transferred on Tilsitt, and she had to complement her complement with Danish sailors. She served in Missiessy's Escault squadron under Pierre Lhermite.[1][3]
In 1814, according to the terms of the Treaty of Paris, she was surrendered to the Dutch and renamed Batavier. She was broken up in 1817.[1][4]
Citations
[edit]References
[edit]- Levot, Prosper (1866). Les gloires maritimes de la France: notices biographiques sur les plus célèbres marins (in French). Bertrand.
- Roche, Jean-Michel (2005). Dictionnaire des bâtiments de la flotte de guerre française de Colbert à nos jours 1 1671 - 1870. p. 29. ISBN 978-2-9525917-0-6. OCLC 165892922.
- Winfield, Rif; Roberts, Stephen S (2015). French Warships in the Age of Sail 1786—1862: Design Construction, Careers and Fates. Seaforth. ISBN 978-1-84832-204-2.
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