French ship Jupiter (1789)

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Name: Jupiter
Namesake: Jove; The Mountain; Democracy; Batavia
Ordered: 19 August 1787
Builder: Brest
Laid down: June 1788
Launched: 4 November 1789
Commissioned: August 1790
Decommissioned: 1807
Renamed:

Montagnard in 1794
Démocrate on 18 May 1795
Jupiter on 30 May 1795

Batave on 27 April 1798
Fate: Broken up in Brest in 1807
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 Jupiter was a Téméraire class 74-gun ship of the line of the French Navy.

Between 1791 and 1793, she was based in Saint-Domingue. In March 1794, she was renamed Montagnard. On 29 May, during the May 1794 Atlantic campaign, she encountered a British squadron; in the issuing battle, she sustained damaged which prevented her from taking part in the Glorious First of June itself.

She was renamed Démocrate on 18 May 1795, and back to Jupiter on 30 May. On 7 August, she took part in the recapture of Censeur.

She was renamed Batave on 27 April 1798. The next year, she took part in the Cruise of Bruix.

Condemned in 1807, she was broken up in Brest.

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