French ship Entreprenant (1787)

For other ships with the same name, see French ship Entreprenant.

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

Scale model of Achille, sister ship of French ship Entreprenant (1787), on display at the Musée national de la Marine in Paris.
History
France
Name	Entreprenant
Builder	Lorient
Laid down	May 1786
Launched	12 October 1787
In service	1788
Out of service	9 November 1802
Fate	Broken up, 1803
General characteristics
Class and type	Téméraire-class ship of the line
Displacement	1,966 tonnes 3,260 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	74 guns: Lower gundeck: 28 × 36-pounder long guns Upper gundeck: 30 × 18-pounder long guns Forecastle and Quarter deck: 16 × 8-pounder long guns 4 × 36-pounder carronades
Armour	Timber

In December 1792, she assisted the Languedoc. She was taken by the British when they captured Toulon, but was recaptured.

In 1793, she ferried prisoners suspected of anti-revolutionary sympathies from Toulon to Rochefort after Toulon was taken by the British.

She took part in the Glorious First of June and in the Croisière du Grand Hiver.

See also

• List of ships of the line of France