French ship Courageux (1806)
Appearance
Scale model of Achille, sister ship of French ship Courageux (1806), on display at the Musée national de la Marine in Paris.
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History | |
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France | |
Name | Courageux |
Namesake | Courageous |
Builder | Lorient |
Laid down | 2 November 1801 |
Launched | 3 February 1806 |
In service | 8 April 1806 |
Out of service | 16 March 1831 |
Fate | Broken up 1831 |
General characteristics | |
Class and type | Téméraire-class ship of the line |
Displacement |
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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 |
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Armour | Timber |
Courageux was a 74-gun ship of the line of the French Navy, lead ship of a two-ship sub-type of the Téméraire class that also comprised Marengo.
She was started as Alcide, and renamed in 1802. She was commissioned on 8 April 1806 under Amable Troude. On 16 February 1809, she left Lorient as flagship of a squadron also comprising Polonais and D'Hautpoul.
Fate
[edit]She was broken up in 1831.
Sources and references
[edit]- Roche, Jean-Michel (2005). Dictionnaire des bâtiments de la flotte de guerre française de Colbert à nos jours, 1671 - 1870. Group Retozel-Maury Millau. p. 131. ISBN 978-2-9525917-0-6. OCLC 165892922.