French ship Austerlitz (1808)

For other ships of the same name, see French ship Austerlitz.

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Career (France)
Name:	Austerlitz
General characteristics
Class and type:	Océan class ship of the line
Displacement:	2 700 tonnes
Length:	65,18 metres (196,6 French feet)
Beam:	16,24 metres (50 French feet)
Draught:	8,12 metres (25 French feet)
Propulsion:	sail, 3 265 m²
Complement:	1 079 men
Armament:	Lower deck: 32 36-pound guns middle deck: 34 24-pound guns upper deck: 34 18-pound guns forecastle: 18 8-pound guns, 6 36-pound carronades
Armour:	Timber

The Austerlitz was a first-rate 118-gun ship of the line of the French Navy, of the Océan type, designed by Jacques-Noël Sané.

Ordered on 19 December 1805 to reinforce the Navy after the disaster of Trafalgar, she was commissioned in Toulon in May 1809 under Captain Guien.

29 August 1814, after the Hundred Days, she was transferred from Toulon to Brest, along with Wagram and Commerce de Paris, where she was disarmed in December.

She was eventually struck and broken up in 1837.

References

• Roche, Jean-Michel (2005). Dictionnaire des bâtiments de la flotte de guerre française de Colbert à nos jours 1 1671 - 1870. ISBN 978-2-9525917-0-6. OCLC 165892922.