Polyphème was a Téméraire-class 74-gun ship of the line of the French Navy.
 Scale model of Achille, sister ship of French ship Polyphème (1817), on display at the Musée national de la Marine in Paris.
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| History | |
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 France | |
| Name | Polyphème |
| Namesake | Polyphemus. |
| Builder | Schuyt, Amsterdam[1] |
| Laid down | 1812 [1] |
| Launched | July 1817 [1] |
| Fate | Seized by the Netherlands |
 Netherlands | |
| Name | Holland |
| Namesake | Holland. |
| Decommissioned | 1832 [1] |
| Fate | Broken up 1832 |
| 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 October 1812, Polyphème was one of the ships built in the various shipyards captured by the First French Empire in Holland and Italy in a crash programme to replenish the ranks of the French Navy.
The Dutch seized her, still on keel, after the French evacuated Amsterdam, and commissioned her in the Royal Netherlands Navy as Holland. She was broken up in 1832.[1]
Citations
edit- ^ a b c d e Roche, vol.1, p.356
- ^ 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. p. 356. ISBN 978-2-9525917-0-6. OCLC 165892922.
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