French ship Argonaute (1798)
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 Scale model of Achille, sister ship of French ship Argonaute (1798), on display at the Musée national de la Marine in Paris.
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| History | |
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 France | |
| Name | Argonaute |
| Namesake | Argonauts |
| Ordered | 10 July 1794 |
| Builder | Lorient shipyard |
| Laid down | 10 July 1794 |
| Launched | 22 December 1798 |
| Commissioned | September 1799 |
| Decommissioned | 1805 |
| Fate | Exchanged with Spain, 1806 |
 Spain | |
| Name | Argonauta |
| Acquired | 1806 |
| Fate | Broken up |
| General characteristics [1] | |
| 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 |
Argonaute was a 74-gun ship of the line of the French Navy.
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Under Vice-amiral Villaret de Joyeuse, she took part in the Saint-Domingue expedition in 1802. She took part in the Battle of Trafalgar in October 1805, and managed to return to Cádiz. Unable to leave the harbour because of the British blockade and damage, she was exchanged for the Vencedor in December 1806. She was renamed Argonauta, but was never recommissioned.[2]
See also
[edit]Citations
[edit]- ^ Clouet, Alain (2007). "La marine de Napoléon III : classe Téméraire - caractéristiques". dossiersmarine.free.fr (in French). Archived from the original on 23 March 2013. Retrieved 4 April 2013.
- ^ Roche, Jean-Michel (2012). "Les bâtiments ayant porté le nom d'Argonaute". netmarine.net (in French). Archived from the original on 15 May 2012. Retrieved 30 March 2013.
References
[edit]- 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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