Jean Bart was a Téméraire-class 74-gun ship of the line of the French Navy.
 Scale model of Achille, sister ship of French ship Jean Bart (1820), on display at the Musée national de la Marine in Paris.
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| History | |
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| Name | Jean Bart |
| Namesake | Jean Bart |
| Builder | Lorient[1] |
| Laid down | 1811[1] |
| Launched | 25 August 1820[1] |
| Decommissioned | 26 October 1833[1] |
| Fate | Broken up 1833 |
| General characteristics [2] | |
| 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 |
Career
editOrdered 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]
Citations
edit- ^ a b c d e f Roche, vol.1, p.265
- ^ 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
edit- Roche, Jean-Michel (2005). Dictionnaire des bâtiments de la flotte de guerre française de Colbert à nos jours 1 1671 - 1870. Roche. p. 265. ISBN 978-2-9525917-0-6. OCLC 165892922.
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