French ship Tyrannicide (1793)

For the Massachusetts ship, see Massachusetts ship Tyrannicide (1776).
Scale model of the Achille, sister-ship of French ship Tyrannicide (1793), on display at the Musée de la Marine in Paris.
Career (France)
Namesake:

"Tyrant killer"

Louis Desaix
Builder: Lorient shipyard
Launched: 1793
Renamed: Dessaix in August 1800
General characteristics
Class and type:Téméraire class ship of the line
Displacement:2966 tonnes
5260 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

Tyrannicide was a 74-gun ship of the line of the French Navy.

In 1794, under Alain Joseph Dordelin, she took part in the Glorious First of June. Along with Indomptable, she helped rescue the Montagne trapped in the midst of the British fleet.

Under Zacharie Jacques Théodore Allemand, she was part of Bruix' squadron from March 1799 and took part in the Cruise of Bruix.

She was renamed Desaix in 1800 in honour of General Louis Desaix. Under captain Jean-Anne Christy de la Pallière, she captured HMS Speedy, captained by Lord Cochrane, and took part in the Battle of Algeciras Bay.

In January 1802, she was shipwrecked at Saint-Domingue trying to enter Cap Français harbour.[1]

External links

  1. ↑ Troude, Batailles navales, p. 270