French ship Danube (1808)
Appearance
Scale model of Achille, sister ship of French ship Danube (1808), on display at the Musée national de la Marine in Paris.
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History | |
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France | |
Name | Danube |
Namesake | Danube river |
Builder | Toulon[1] |
Laid down | 1806 [1] |
Launched | 21 December 1808 [1] |
Decommissioned | 1827 [1] |
Fate | Broken up |
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 |
Danube was a Téméraire-class 74-gun ship of the line of the French Navy.
Career
[edit]Danube served under Captain Henry in 1810.[1][3]
The ship was struck and ordered to be broken up on 18 December 1826.[4]
Citations
[edit]- ^ a b c d e Roche, vol.1, p.141
- ^ 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.
- ^ Quintin, p.175
- ^ Winfield & Roberts p.94
References
[edit]- Quintin, Danielle; Quintin, Bernard (2003). Dictionnaire des capitaines de Vaisseau de Napoléon (in French). S.P.M. pp. 173–175. ISBN 2-901952-42-9.
- Roche, Jean-Michel (2005). Dictionnaire des bâtiments de la flotte de guerre française de Colbert à nos jours 1 1671 - 1870. p. 141. ISBN 978-2-9525917-0-6. OCLC 165892922.
- Winfield, Rif; Roberts, Stephen S. (2015). French warships in the age of sail, 1786-1861. Barnsley: Seaforth Publishing. ISBN 978-184832-204-2.