French ship Audacieux (1784)

From SpottingWorld, the Hub for the SpottingWorld network...
the Achille
Scale model of the Achille, sister-ship of the Audacieux, on display at the Musée de la Marine in Paris
Career (France) French Navy Ensign French Navy Ensign French Navy Ensign
Name: Audacieux
Namesake: "Audacious"
Ordered: 15 February 1782
Builder: Lorient
Laid down: 8July 1782
Launched: 28 August 1784
Commissioned: 1785
Fate: Broken up in Brest in 1803
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 Audacieux was a Téméraire class 74-gun ship of the line of the French Navy.

Between 1791 and 1793, she was decommissioned in Lorient. She joined active service again in 1793, and the next year, she salvaged the Révolutionnaire, dismasted after the Glorious First of June.

She was eventually broken up in 1803.

External links