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FIGHTING SHIPS OF THE WORLD
UNITED KINGDOM
SHIPS-OF-THE-LINE, CAPITAL SHIPS, MONITORS
ACHILLE 3rd rate sailing ships-of-the-line (1798)


Ships


Name

No

Yard No

Builder

Laid down

Launched

Comp

Fate

Superb     Chatham DYd 8.1795 19.3.1798 30.6.1978 BU 4.1826
Achille     Chatham DYd 10.1795 16.4.1798 25.8.1798 BU 11.1865


Technical data


Displacement normal, t

1916bm

Displacement full, t 
Length, m

55.5 gundeck

Breadth, m

14.9

Draught, m

6.67

No of shafts

 

Machinery

sails

Power, h. p. 
Max speed, kts 
Fuel, t 
Endurance, nm(kts) 
Armament

30 x 1 - 162/17 32pdr SBML, 12 x 1 - 159/8 32pdr SBML carronades, 30 x 1 - 148/18 24pdr SBML, 6 x 1 - 139/19 18pdr SBML, 6 x 1 - 139/8 18pdr carronades

Complement

640



Project history

74-gun two-deckers, derived from draught of French prize Le Pompée.

Modernizations

1839, Achille: - 2 x 1 - 159/8 32pdr SBML carronades; + 2 x 1 - 162/17 32pdr SBML

Naval service

No significant events.