French ship Quatorze Juillet (1798)

Scale model of Achille, sister ship of French ship Quatorze Juillet (1798), on display at the Musée de la Marine in Paris.
History
France
Name: Quatorze Juillet
Namesake: Bastille day
Ordered: 23 May 1794
Builder: Lorient
Laid down: August 1794
Launched: 1 February 1798
Struck: 28 April 1798
General characteristics [1]
Class and type: Téméraire-class ship of the line
Displacement:
  • 2,966 tonnes
  • 5,260 tonnes fully loaded
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:
Armour: Timber

Quatorze Juillet was a Téméraire class 74-gun ship of the line of the French Navy.

During her completion, she was accidentally set afire and was destroyed before being commissioned.

References

  1. Clouet, Alain (2007). "La marine de Napoléon III : classe Téméraire - caractéristiques". dossiersmarine.free.fr (in French). Retrieved 14 April 2013.


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