French ship Jean Bart (1820)

Jean Bart was a Téméraire-class 74-gun ship of the line of the French Navy.

For other ships with the same name, see French ship Jean Bart.
Scale model of Achille, sister ship of French ship Jean Bart (1820), on display at the Musée national de la Marine in Paris.
History
France
Name: Jean Bart
Namesake: Jean Bart
Builder: Lorient[1]
Laid down: 1811[1]
Launched: 25 August 1820[1]
Decommissioned: 26 October 1833[1]
General characteristics [2]
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

Career

Ordered in 1811, Jean Bart was not completed before 1820, long after the fall of the French Empire she was meant to defend and after the Bourbon Restoration. Commissioned under Captain Menouvrier-Defresne, she cruised off Brazil in before returning to Brest. In 1823, she captured the Spanish merchantman Nueva Veloce Mariana before patrolling the Caribbean.[1]

She cruised off South America again from 1828 to 1829 before being hulked in 1830. She was eventually scrapped in 1833.[1]

Notes, citations, and references

Notes

    Citations
    1. Roche, vol.1, p.265
    2. Clouet, Alain (2007). "La marine de Napoléon III : classe Téméraire - caractéristiques". dossiersmarine.free.fr. Archived from the original on 23 March 2013. Retrieved 4 April 2013.

    References
    • Roche, Jean-Michel (2005). Dictionnaire des bâtiments de la flotte de guerre française de Colbert à nos jours 1 1671 - 1870. p. 265. ISBN 978-2-9525917-0-6. OCLC 165892922.
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