French ship Léopard (1787)

Scale model of the Achille, sister-ship of French ship Léopard (1787), on display at the Musée de la Marine in Paris.
Career (France)
Name: Léopard[1]
Namesake: Leopard (Panthera pardus)
Builder: Brest[1]
Laid down: 15 November 1785[1]
Launched: 22 June 1787[1]
In service: July 1787[1]
Fate: Scuttled by fire on 12 February 1793[1]
General characteristics [2]
Class and type:Téméraire-class ship of the line
Displacement:2,966 tonnes
5,260 tonnes fully loaded
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:74 guns:
16 × 8-pounder long guns
4 × 36-pounder carronades
Armour:Timber

Léopard was a Téméraire class 74-gun ship of the line of the French Navy.

Career

On 30 October 1788, Léopard departed Toulon for a cruise in the Caribbean, under Captain de la Galissoninère.[1][3]

On 15 September 1790, a fight between sailors from Léopard and Patriote caused a mutiny; the entire crew of Léopard wasexpelled from the Navy by a decree of the National Constituent Assembly.[1]

From 1792, Léopard took part in the Expédition de Sardaigne under Captain Bourdon-Gramont, capturing Carloforte on 8 January 1793. On 17 February, Léopard ran aground in a storm off Cagliari; after two days trying the relfloat her, the crew abandonned the ship and set her on fire after offloading the guns and matériel.

See also

References

  1. ↑ 1.0 1.1 1.2 1.3 1.4 1.5 1.6 1.7 Roche, Jean-Michel (2005). Dictionnaire des bâtiments de la flotte de guerre française de Colbert à nos jours 1 1671 - 1870. p. 278. ISBN 978-2-9525917-0-6. OCLC 165892922.
  2. ↑ Clouet, Alain (2007). "La marine de Napoléon III : classe Téméraire - caractéristiques". dossiersmarine.free.fr (in French). Retrieved 4 April 2013.
  3. ↑ Les Barrin de la Galissoninère, Pierre Roucou, Le Pallet, Patrie d'Abélard, 2e édition 2003, Association culturelle Pierre Abélard, édition avril 2006.