French ship Duguay-Trouin (1788)

For other ships with the same name, see French ship Duguay-Trouin.
Scale model of Achille, sister ship of French ship Duguay-Trouin (1788), on display at the Musée de la Marine in Paris.
History
France
Name: Duguay-Trouin
Namesake: René Duguay-Trouin
Builder: Brest[1]
Laid down: 1787 [1]
Launched: 30 October 1788 [1]
Commissioned: July 1790 [1]
Decommissioned: 1793
General characteristics [2]
Class and type: Téméraire-class ship of the line
Displacement:
  • 1,966 tonnes
  • 3,260 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

Duguay-Trouin was a Téméraire class 74-gun ship of the line of the French Navy.

Career

In 1791, Duguay-Trouin ferried troops from Brest to Martinique and Saint Domingue, along with Amphitrite, Danaé, Éole, Apollon, Didon and Jupiter. The next year, she patrolled off Bretagne.

In 1793, Duguay-Trouin took part in the operations in Sardinia, and ran aground off Cagliari on 12 February, although she managed to break free on 19.

Present at Toulon when the city was surrendered to the British by a rebellion of Royalists, she was scuttled by fire at the end of the Siege of Toulon. The wreck was raised in 1807 and broken up.

Notes, citations, and references

Notes
    Citations
    1. 1 2 3 4 Roche, vol.1, p.161
    2. ↑ Clouet, Alain (2007). "La marine de Napoléon III : classe Téméraire - caractéristiques". dossiersmarine.free.fr. Retrieved 4 April 2013.
    References


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