French ship Téméraire (1749)

History
France
Name: Téméraire
Ordered: 18 December 1747
Builder: Pierre-Blaise Coulomb, Toulon Dockyard
Laid down: August 1748
Launched: 24 December 1749
Commissioned: 1750
Captured: 18 August 1759, by Royal Navy
Great Britain
Name: Temeraire
Acquired: 18 August 1759
Fate: Sold, June 1784
General characteristics [1]
Class and type: 74-gun third rate ship of the line
Tons burthen: 1685 tons (1712 tonnes)
Length: 161¾ French feet[2]
Beam: 43½ French feet
Draught: 19 French feet
Depth of hold: 21 French feet
Propulsion: Sails
Sail plan: Full rigged ship
Complement: 680, + 6/13 officers
Armament: 74 guns of various weights of shot

Téméraire was a 74-gun ship of the line of the French Navy, ordered in December 1747 to a design by François Coulomb, and built at Toulon by his cousin, the constructor Pierre-Blaise Coulomb; she was launched on 24 December 1749.[1] Her 74 guns comprised:
28 x 36-pounders on the lower deck
30 x 18-pounders on the upper deck
10 x 8-pounders on the quarterdeck
6 x 8-pounders on the forecastle.

HMS Warspite captured Téméraire at the Battle of Lagos on 18 August 1759. She was taken into the Royal Navy as the Third Rate HMS Temeraire.[1]

See also

Fate

Temeraire was sold out of the navy in 1784.[1]

Notes

  1. 1 2 3 4 Lavery, Ships of the Line vol.1. p178.
  2. ↑ The French (pre-metric) foot was 6.575% longer than the contemporary British unit of measurement of that name.

References

  • Lavery, Brian (2003) The Ship of the Line - Volume 1: The development of the battlefleet 1650-1850. Conway Maritime Press. ISBN 0-85177-252-8.
  • Winfield, Rif and Roberts, Stephen S., French Warships in the Age of Sail 1626-1786: Design, Construction, Careers and Fates. (Seaforth Publishing, 2017) ISBN 978-1-4738-9351-1.


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