NAVYPEDIA

Ships

Name	No	Yard No	Builder	Laid down	Launched	Comp	Fate
Téméraire			Arsenal de Brest	5/1782	17.12.1782	7/1783	condemned 11.1802
Superbe			Arsenal de Brest	7/1782	11.11.1784	1785	lost 30.1.1795
Audacieux			Arsenal de Lorient	8.7.1782	28.10.1784	1785	condemned 11.1802
Généreux			Arsenal de Rochefort	24.7.1782	6-7/1785	10/1785	captured by British 18.2.1800 (Généreux)
Orion, 11.1793- Mucius Scévola, 11.1793- Mucius			Arsenal de Rochefort	10/1784	18.4.1787	1788	condemned 10.1803
Fougueux			Arsenal de Lorient	11/1784	19.9.1785	12/1785	captured by British 21.10.1805
Commerce de Bordeaux, 12.1793- Bonnet Rouge, 2.1794- Timoléon			Arsenal de Toulon	9/1784	15.9.1785	1786	destroyed by crew 2.8.1798
Lys, 10.1792- Tricolore			Arsenal de Toulon	9/1784	7.10.1785	9/1787	surrendered to UK and Spain 8.1793, fire 18.12.1793
Patriote			Arsenal de Brest	10/1784	3.10.1785	4/1786	surrendered to UK and Spain 8.1793, returned 9.1793, condemned 5.1820
Borée, 4.1794- Ça Ira, 6.1794- Agricola			Arsenal de Lorient	11/1784	17.11.1785	8/1787	frigate 7.1794, hospital hulk 1796
Ferme, 10.1792- Phocion			Arsenal de Brest	12/1784	16.9.1785	1786	surrendered to Spain 11.1.1793, to Spain 1794 (Phocion)
Léopard			Arsenal de Brest	15.11.1785	22.6.1787	7/1787	wrecked 17.2.1793
Entreprenant			Arsenal de Lorient	5/1786	12.10.1787	1788	captured by UK and Spain 8.1793, returned 9.1793, condemned 11.1802
Tourville			Arsenal de Lorient	1.6.1787	16.9.1788	7/1790	stricken 10.1833
Éole			Arsenal de Lorient	2.6.1787	15.11.1789	8/1790	condemned 1.1811
Jean Bart			Arsenal de Lorient	1.6.1788	7.11.1790	2/1791	wrecked 26.2.1809
Thémistocle			Arsenal de Lorient	1.9.1789	12.9.1791	9/1792	captured by UK and Spain 8.1793, fire 18.12.1793
Trajan, 12.1797- Gaulois			Arsenal de Lorient	17.5.1790	24.1.1792	11/1792	BU 1.1805
Tyrannicide, 7.1800- Desaix			Arsenal de Lorient	1.11.1791	28.6.1793	11/1793	wrecked 15.2.1802
Droits de L'Homme			Arsenal de Lorient	5/1793	29.5.1794	7/1794	wrecked 13.1.1797
Cassard, 2.1798- Dix-Août, 2.1803- Brave			Arsenal de Lorient	8/1793	2.5.1795	7/1795	captured by UK 6.2.1806
Wattignies			Arsenal de Lorient-Caudan	5/1793	8.10.1794	12/1794	condemned 9.1808
Hercule			Arsenal de Lorient-Caudan	6/1794	5.10.1797	2/1798	captured by UK 20.4.1798 (Hercule)
Argonaute			Arsenal de Lorient-Caudan	9/1794	22.12.1798	9/1799	to Spain 12.1806 (Argonauta)
Impétueux			Arsenal de Rochefort	1786	25.10.1787	1788	captured by UK 1.6.1794 (Impetueux)
Apollon, 2.1794- Gasparin, 5.1795- Apollon, 12.1797- Marceau			Arsenal de Rochefort	4/1787	21.5.1788	1788	captured by UK and Spain 8.1793, re-captured 9.1793, BU 6.1798
Aquilon			Arsenal de Rochefort	8/1787	8.6.1789	6/1790	captured by UK 2.8.1798 (Aboukir)
Thésée, 1.1793- Révolution, 2.1803- Finistèrre			Arsenal de Rochefort	3/1788	14.4.1790	8/1790	condemned 12.1804
Mont Blanc (ex-Pyrrhus), 4.1794- Trente et un Mai, 4.1795- Républicain, 1.1796- Mont Blanc			Arsenal de Rochefort	7/1789	13.8.1791	3/1793	captured by UK 4.11.1805 (Mont Blanc)
Jemmapes (ex-Alexnadre)			Arsenal de Rochefort	8/1790	22.1.1794	3/1794	condemned 5.1820
Marat, 5.1795- Formidable			Arsenal de Rochefort	8/1791	29.4.1794	6/1794	captured by UK 22.6.1795 (Belleisle)
America			Arsenal de Brest	1787	21.5.1788	1789	captured by UK 1.6.1794 (America)
Duguay-Trouin			Arsenal de Brest	1787	30.10.1788	7/1790	captured by UK 8.1793, fire 18.12.1793
Jupiter, 3.1794- Montagnard, 5.1795- Démocrate, 5.1795- Jupiter, 12.1797- Batave			Arsenal de Brest	6/1788	4.11.1789	10/1790	condemned 1.1807
Vengeur			Arsenal de Brest	23.5.1788	16.12.1789	20.8.1790	wrecked 12.12.1792
Suffren, 5.1795- Redoutable			Arsenal de Brest	15.1.1789	31.5.1791	12/1792	captured by UK 21.10.1805
Nestor, 12.1797- Cisalpin, 2.1803- Aquilon			Arsenal de Brest	10/1790	22.7.1793	10/1793	wrecked 11.4.1809
Tigre			Arsenal de Brest	1/1791	8.5.1793	8/1793	captured by UK 22.6.1795
Scipion			Arsenal de Toulon	1789	30.7.1790	11/1790	captured by UK and Spain 29.8.1793
Pompée			Arsenal de Toulon	1790	28.5.1791	2/1793	captured by UK and Spain 29.8.1793 (RN Pompée)
Duquesne			Arsenal de Toulon	1/1788	2.9.1788	1789	captured by UK 25.7.1803 (Duquesne)
Barra, 10.1795- Pégase, 12.1797- Hoche			Arsenal de Toulon	11/1791	23.3.1794	2/1795	captured by UK 12.10.1798 (Donegal)
Tonnerre			Arsenal de Brest	22.9.1794	9.6.1808	9/1808	wrecked 12.4.1809
Constitution (ex-Viala), 2.1803- Jupiter			Arsenal de Lorient-Caudan	19.2.1794	28.9.1795	5/1796	captured by UK 6.2.1806 (Maida)
Quatorze Juillet			Arsenal de Lorient-Caudan	8/1794	1.2.1798	3.2.1798	fire 29.4.1798
Union, 2.1803- Diomède			Arsenal de Lorient-Caudan	9/1794	1.8.1799	2/1800	wrecked 6.2.1806
Scipion			Arsenal de Lorient-Caudan	22.9.1798	29.3.1801	9/1801	captured by UK 4.11.1805
Impétueux (ex-Brutus)			Arsenal de Lorient-Caudan	22.9.1798	24.1.1803	3/1803	wrecked 14.9.1806
Régulus			Arsenal de Lorient-Caudan	7/1802	12.4.1805	7/1805	fired by crew 7.4.1814
Courageux (ex-Alcide)			Arsenal de Lorient	7/1802	3.2.1806	4/1806	stricken 1827
D'Hautpoul (ex-Courageux)			Arsenal de Lorient	6/1803	2.9.1807	2/1808	captured by UK 17.4.1809 (Abercrombie)
Jean-Jacques Rousseau, 12.1802- Marengo			Arsenal de Toulon	9/1794	21.7.1795	10/1796	captured by UK 13.3.1806 (Marengo)
Spartiate			Arsenal de Toulon	11/1794	24.11.1798	3/1798	captured by UK 2.8.1798
Duguay-Trouin			Arsenal de Rochefort // Enterprise Destouches	15.11.1794	25.3.1800	11/1800	captured by UK 4.11.1805 (Implacable)
Aigle			Arsenal de Rochefort // Enterprise Destouches	26.12.1794	6.7.1800	2/1801	captured by UK 21.10.1805
Héros			Arsenal de Rochefort // Enterprise Destouches	15.1.1795	10.5.1801	10/1801	captured by Spain 14.6.1808 (Heroe)
Magnanime			Arsenal de Rochefort	6.5.1802	17.8.1803	12/1803	stricken 1.1820
Lion			Arsenal de Rochefort	8.7.1802	11.2.1804	6/1804	wrecked 26.10.1809
Achille			Arsenal de Rochefort	5.11.1802	17.11.1804	2/1805	sunk 21.10.1805
Ajax			Arsenal de Rochefort	23.11.1804	17.6.1806	9/1806	floating battery 4.1815, stricken 3.1818
Triomphant			Arsenal de Rochefort	27.6.1806	31.3.1809	5/1809	condemned 7.1822
Polonais (ex-Glorieux), 4.1814- Lys, 3.1815- Polonais, 7.1815- Lys			Arsenal de Lorient-Caudan	2/1805	27.5.1808	6/1808	condemned 7.1822
Golymin (ex-Inflexible)			Arsenal de Lorient-Caudan	6/1805	8.12.1808	10/1809	wrecked 23.3.1814
Marengo			Arsenal de Lorient	19.9.1806	12.10.1810	4/1811	stricken 7.1858
Danube			Arsenal de Toulon	1.6.1807	21.12.1808	8/1809	school ship 12.1822
Ulm			Arsenal de Toulon	2.3.1807	25.5.1809	8/1809	stricken 1828
Trajan			Antwerp	9/1807	15.8.1811	4/1812	stricken 3.1827
Gaulois			Antwerp	9/1807	14.4.1812	8/1812	stricken 3.1827
Superbe			Antwerp	1808-09	5.7.1814	9/1814	wrecked 15.12.1833
Belliqueux			Antwerp	7/1811	---	---	sold incomplete after 8.1814
Alcide			Antwerp	8/1811	---	---	sold incomplete after 8.1814
Aigle			Antwerp	8/1811	---	---	sold incomplete after 8.1814
Impétueux			Antwerp	11/1811	---	---	sold incomplete after 8.1814
Triton (ex-Vénitien, ex-Triton, ex-Vénitien)			Arsenal de Rochefort	9/1814	22.9.1823	12/1826	floating battery 9.1847, hulk 9.1847
Duc de Berry (ex-Glorieux, ex-Duc de Berry, ex-Glorieux, ex-Couronne), 8.1830- Glorieux, 10.1831- Minerve			Arsenal de Rochefort	13.1.1812	18.6.1818	7/1818	frigate 10.1834, school ship 8.1848
Capri			Castellammare de Stabia, Neapolitan Kingdom	late 1808	21.8.1810	1/1812	captured by UK 28.4.1815
Gioacchino			Castellammare de Stabia, Neapolitan Kingdom	9/1810	1.8.1812	5/1813	captured by UK 28.4.1815
Nestor			Arsenal de Brest	2/1809	21.5.1810	9/1810	stricken 8.1849
Orion			Arsenal de Brest	18.5.1810	9.10.1813	2/1814	school ship 5.1827
Couronne, 2.1848- Barricade, 12.1849- Duperré			Arsenal de Brest	15.10.1813	26.8.1824	1825	transport 12.1854
Trident			Arsenal de Toulon	15.11.1809	9.6.1811	9/1812	sail transport 3.1854
Romulus, 6.1821- Guerrière			Arsenal de Toulon	12/1809	31.5.1812	9/1812	frigate 3.1821, stricken 11.1840
Ville de Marseille			Arsenal de Toulon	27.6.1811	15.8.1812	12/1812	floating barracks 2.1855
Colosse, 10.1825- Pallas			Arsenal de Toulon	7/1812	5.12.1813	1/1814	frigate 10.1827, stricken 9.1840
Provence (ex-Hercule, ex-Kremlin, ex-Provence, ex-Kremlin), 7.1830- Alger			Arsenal de Toulon	9/1812	26.5.1815	8/1815	floating hospital 1856
Agamemnon, 4.1824- Amphitrite			Genoa	4/1809	23.2.1812	8/1812	frigate 12.1823, stricken 1.1836
Scipion			Genoa	2/1812	5.9.1813	2/1814	stricken 2.1846
Brilliant			Genoa	2/1812	18.4.1815	---	captured incomplete by British 18.4.1814 (Genoa)
Brave			Genoa	9/1813	---	---	captured on the stocks by British 18.4.1814, dismantled
Duguay-Trouin			Arsenal de Cherbourg	6.5.1811	10.11.1813	5/1814	condemned 12.1824
Jean Bart			Arsenal de Lorient	21.6.1811	25.8.1820	12/1820	floating storage 1830
Généreux			Arsenal de Cherbourg	3.7.1813	23.9.1831	1832	stricken 11.1855

Technical data

Displacement normal, t	3069
Displacement full, t
Length, m	55.9 pp
Breadth, m	14.5
Draught, m	7.15
No of shafts
Machinery	sails
Power, h. p.
Max speed, kts
Fuel, t
Endurance, nm(kts)
Armament	28 x 1 - 175/16 36pdr SBML, 30 x 1 - 139/18 18pdr SBML, 16 x 1 - 106/24 8pdr SBML completed since 1790: 28 x 1 - 175/16 36pdr SBML, 4 x 1 - 175/3 36pdr SBML carronades, 30 x 1 - 139/18 18pdr SBML, 16 x 1 - 106/24 8pdr SBML completed since 1810: 28 x 1 - 175/16 36pdr SBML, 10 x 1 - 173/8 36pdr SBML carronades, 30 x 1 - 139/18 18pdr SBML, 12 x 1 - 106/24 8pdr SBML
Complement	495 (705 wartime)

Project history

1782 design by Jacques-Noël Sané. 74-gun two-deckers.

Modernizations

since 1787, all completed: + 4 x 1 - 175/3 36pdr SBML obusiers

1794, Agricola as frigate: was armed with 28 x 1 - 175/16 36pdr SBML,14 x 1 - 139/18 18pdr SBML

By 1810, almost all completed and survived: were armed with 28 x 1 - 175/16 36pdr SBML, 10 x 1 - 173/8 36pdr SBML carronades, 30 x 1 - 139/18 18pdr SBML, 12 x 1 - 106/24 8pdr SBML

1821, Guerrière; 1823, Agamenon (presumably); 1827, Pallas: as frigates were armed with 28 x 1 - 175/16 36pdr SBML, 28 x 1 - 173/8 36pdr SBML carronades, 2 x 1 - 139/18 18pdr SBML

by 1830, Guerrière, Pallas: - 2 x 1 - 175/16; + 2 x 1 - 223/11 shell SBML

1834, Minerve: as frigate was armed with 2 x 1 - 223/11 shell SBML, 26 x 1 - 175/16 36pdr SBML, 28 x 1 - 173/8 36pdr SBML carronades, 2 x 1 - 139/18 18pdr SBML

Naval service

Superbe was lost off Brest 30.1.1795. Généreux was captured 18.2.1800 by British ships S of Sicily and commissioned by them under the same name. Fougueux was captured by boarding by British at Trafalgar 21.10.1805 but abandoned by them in the storm and went ashore 28.10.1805 on the Santi Petri reefs E of Cadiz. Timoléon was fired by crew at the Battle of the Nile (Aboukir) 2.8.1798 to avoid capture by British. Tricolore, Thémistocles and Duguay-Trouin handed over to Anglo-Spanish forces at Toulon in August 1793 and fired during the evacuation 18.12.1793. Patriote handed over to Anglo-Spanish forces at Toulon in August 1793 but returned to France in September, hard damaged by high winds 19.8.1806 off E US coast. Phocion handed over to Spanish at Trinidad 11.1.1793 by pro-Royalist crew and next year entered the Spanish Navy. Léopard grounded 17.2.1793 off Cagliari and fired by crew two days later to avoid capture by British. Entreprenant was captured by British and Spanish troops at Toulon in August 1793 but returned to France next month. Jean Bart wrecked 26.2.1809 on the Palles rock near Île d'Aix, wreck was taken by British and fired by them in April that year. Desaix wrecked 15.2.1802 on the reefs of Cape Français (Santo Domingo), wreck was destroyed by British. Droits de L'Homme wrecked off Audierne after combat against HMS Indefatigable and Amazon 13.1.1797. Brave was captured by British at Santo Domingo 6.2.1806 and foundered off Azores in April en route to Britain. Hercule was captured by Royal Navy 20.4.1798 and commissioned by them under the same name. Argonaute was in bad condition after Trafalgar and was ceded to Spain at Cadiz 18.12.1806 (used as prison hulk). Impétueux and America were captured by RN ships at Battle of Glorious First of June 1.6.1794 and commissioned by RN as Impetueux and America. Apollon was taken by British and Spanish forces at Toulon in August 1793 but restored to Revolutionary forces next month. Aquilon was captured by British ships at the Battle of the Nile (Aboukir) and commissioned by RN as Aboukir. Mont Blanc was captured by British ships off Cape Ortegal 4.11.1805 after Trafalgar and commissioned by RN under the same name. Formidable was captured by HMS Barfleur in action off Ile Groix 22.6.1795 and commissioned by RN as Belleisle. Vengeur grounded off Ajaccio 12.12.1792, abandoned and fired 8.6.1793. Redoutable was captured by British ships 21.10.1805 at Trafalgar and sank under tow in the storm 22.10.1805. Aquilon grounded 11.4.1809 on the Palles rock after attack of RN fireship and destroyed by British 14.4.1809. Tigre was captured by RN ships in the action of Ile Groix 22.6.1795. Scipion with Freench Royalist crew handed over to British and Spanish forces at Toulon 29.8.1793 and accidentally burnt at Livorno 20.11.1793. Pompée was captured by British and Spanish forces at Toulon 29.8.1793 and commissioned by RN under the same name. Duquesne was captured by British ships off Santo Domingo 25.7.1803 and commissioned by the RN under the same name. Barra was captured by HMS Robust off Lough Swilly 12.10.1798 and became RN Donegal. Tonnerre grounded near Île Madame during Britsh fireship attack at Île d'Aix 12.4.1809 and fired by crew. Jupiter was captured by British ships 6.2.1806 at Santo Domingo and became HMS Maida. Quatorze Juillet accidentally burnt at Lorient 29.4.1798. Diomède ran aground at Santo Domingo 6.2.1806 to avoid capture by British and fired by them 9.2.1806. Scipion was captured by British ship off Cape Ortegal 4.11.1805 after Trafalgar and commissioned by RN under the same name. Impétueux was dismasted in a violent storm 19.8.1806, drifted until 10.9.1806, chased by British ships at the mouth of the Chesapeake, ran ashore 14.9.1806 at Cape Henry, surrendered and burnt by British. Régulus was fire by crew 7.4.1814 in the Gironde to avoid capture by British forces. D'Hautpoul was captured by British ships 17.4.1809 off Puerto Rico and became HMS Abercrombie. Marengo was captured by British ships 13.3.1806 off Cape Verde Islands and entered RN under the same name. Spartiate was captured by HMS Theseus and Vanguard 2.8.1798 at Aboukir and commissioned by RN under the same name. Duguay-Trouin was captured by British ships off Cape Ortegal 4.11.1805 after Trafalgar and commissioned by RN as Implacable. Aigle was captured by British ships 21.10.1805 at Trafalgar but wrecked 22.10.1805 off Puerto Santa Maria near Cadiz in the storm. Héros surrendered 14.6.1808 at Cadiz to Spanish insurgents and became Spanish Heroe. Lion grouned near Sète 26.10.1809 and burnt be crew to avoid capture by British ships. Achille caught fire and exploded at Trafalgar 21.10.1805. Golymin wrecked at the rock in the Goulet near Brest and sank there 23.3.1814. Superbe wrecked 15.12.1833 on Island Paros (Greece). Capri and Gioacchino handed over to British 28.4.1815, taken by them to Malta and transferred next year to Neapolitans, becoming Capri and San Fernando.