French ship Patriote (1785)


Scale model of the Achille, sister-ship of the Patriote, on display at the Musée de la Marine in Paris
Career (France)
Name: Patriote
Namesake: Patriot
Ordered: 28 January 1786
Builder: Brest
Laid down: october 1784
Launched: 3 October 1785
Commissioned: April 1786
Decommissioned: May 1820
General characteristics
Class and type: Téméraire class ship of the line
Displacement:

2 966 tonnes

5 260 tonnes fully loaded
Length: 55.87 metres (172 French feet)
Beam: 14.90 metres (44' 6)
Draught: 7.26 metres (22 French feet)
Propulsion: Up to 2 485 m² of sails
Complement: 678 men
Armament:

74 guns:

  • Lower gundeck: 28 x 36-pdr long guns
  • Upper gundeck: 30 x 24-pdr long guns
  • Forecastle and Quarter deck:
16 x 8-pdr long guns
4 x 36-pdr carronades
Armour: Timber

The Patriote was a Téméraire class 74-gun ship of the line of the French Navy.She was one of the French ships which had their hull doubled with copper.

In 1793, she ferried prisoners suspected of anti-revolutionary sympathies from Toulon to Rochefort after Toulon was taken by the British.

She took part in the Bataille du 13 prairial an 2, in the Croisière du Grand Hiver and in the Expédition d'Irlande.

From 1821, she was used as a hulk.

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