Quatorze Juillet was a Téméraire class 74-gun ship of the line of the French Navy.
 Scale model of Achille, sister ship of French ship Quatorze Juillet (1798), on display at the Musée national de la Marine in Paris.
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| History | |
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   France | |
| Name | Quatorze Juillet |
| Namesake | 14 July (for Bastille Day) |
| Ordered | 23 May 1794 |
| Builder | Lorient |
| Laid down | August 1794 |
| Launched | 1 February 1798 |
| Stricken | 28 April 1798 |
| Fate | Burned April 1798 |
| General characteristics [1] | |
| 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 |
During her fitting-out, she was accidentally set afire and was destroyed before being commissioned.
Citations
edit- ^ Clouet, Alain (2007). "La marine de Napoléon III : classe Téméraire – caractéristiques". dossiersmarine.free.fr (in French). Archived from the original on 23 March 2013. Retrieved 14 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. 369. ISBN 978-2-9525917-0-6. OCLC 165892922.
- Troude, Onésime-Joachim (1867). Batailles navales de la France. Vol. 3. Challamel ainé. p. 133.
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