Pompée-class ship of the line
Class overview | |
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Name: | Pompée |
Operators: | Royal Navy |
Succeeded by: | America-class |
In service: | 19 March 1798 - 1865 |
Completed: | 2 |
General characteristics | |
Type: | Ship of the line |
Length: | 182 ft 2 in (55.52 m) (gundeck) 149 ft 9 in (45.64 m) (keel) |
Beam: | 49 ft (15 m) |
Propulsion: | Sails |
Armament: | 74 guns:
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Notes: | Ships in class include: Superb, Achilles |
The Pompée-class ships of the line were a class of two 74-gun third rates. They were built for the Royal Navy to the lines of the French ship Pompée, a Téméraire-class ship of the line which had been captured by Britain in 1793.
Ships
- Builder: Pitcher, Northfleet
- Ordered: 10 June 1795
- Launched: 19 March 1798
- Fate: Broken up, 1826
- HMS Achilles
- Builder: Cleverley, Gravesend
- Ordered: 10 June 1795
- Launched: 16 April 1798
- Fate: Sold out of the service, 1865
References
- Lavery, Brian (2003) The Ship of the Line - Volume 1: The development of the battlefleet 1650-1850. Conway Maritime Press. ISBN 0-85177-252-8.