French ship Quatorze Juillet (1798)

Scale model of Achille, sister ship of French ship Quatorze Juillet (1798), on display at the Musée de la Marine in Paris.
History
France
Name: Quatorze Juillet
Namesake: Bastille day
Ordered: 23 May 1794
Builder: Lorient
Laid down: August 1794
Launched: 1 February 1798
Struck: 28 April 1798
General characteristics [1]
Class and type: Téméraire-class ship of the line
Displacement:
  • 2,966 tonnes
  • 5,260 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

Quatorze Juillet was a Téméraire class 74-gun ship of the line of the French Navy.

During her completion, she was accidentally set afire and was destroyed before being commissioned.

References

  1. ↑ Clouet, Alain (2007). "La marine de Napoléon III : classe Téméraire - caractéristiques". dossiersmarine.free.fr (in French). Archived from the original on 23 March 2013. Retrieved 14 April 2013.
  • 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.
  • Troude, Onésime-Joachim (1867). Batailles navales de la France. 3. Challamel ainé. p. 133.


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