French ship Duquesne (1787)

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

the Duquesne Scale model of the Duquesne, on display at the Musée de la Marine in Toulon
Career (France)
Name:	Duquesne
Namesake:	Abraham Duquesne
Laid down:	January 1788
Launched:	2 September 1788
In service:	1789
Captured:	24 July 1803
Career (UK)
Name:	HMS Duquesne
Acquired:	Captured on 24 July 1803
Fate:	Broken up in 1805
General characteristics
Class and type:	Téméraire class ship of the line
Displacement:	2 966 tonnes 5 260 tonnes fully loaded
Length:	55.87 metres (172 French feet)
Beam:	14.90 metres (44' 6)
Draught:	7.26 metres (22 French feet)
Propulsion:	Up to 2 485 m² of sails
Complement:	678 men
Armament:	74 guns: Lower gundeck: 28 x 36-pdr long guns Upper gundeck: 30 x 24-pdr long guns Forecastle and Quarter deck: 16 x 8-pdr long guns 4 x 36-pdr carronades
Armour:	Timber

The Duquesne was a Téméraire class 74-gun ship of the line of the French Navy.

In 1795, under captain Allemand, she took part in the Battle of Cape Noli, and in the Naval Battle of Hyères Islands.

From the summer of 1801, she was armed en flûte and used as a troop ship. On 22 November 1802, she departed Toulon, bound to Saint Domingue under Commodore Pierre-Maurice-Julien Querangal, along with Guerrière and Duguay-Trouin.

The flotilla found itself blockaded by HMS Elephant, Bellerophon, Theseus, Vanguard and Tartar. Attempting a sortie, Guerrière and Duguay-Trouin managed to escape; Duquesne separated from the squadron and attempted to flee in the night, but she was rejoined by Tartar and Vanguard the next afternoon. After a short artillery duel, Duquesne, largely outnumbered by her opponents, struck her colours.

Duquesne was incorporated in the Royal Navy as HMS Duquesne. In 1804, she ran aground on Morant Keys. She was refloated in 1805, and sailed to England to be broken up.

A large scale model of Duquesne, built in 1788, is on display at the Naval museum in Toulon.

Sources and references

• National Maritime Museum plan of HMS Duquesne

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• 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.