French ship Trajan (1792)
 Scale model of the Achille, sister-ship of French ship Trajan (1792), on display at the Musée de la Marine in Paris. | |
| History | |
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| Name: | Trajan |
| Namesake: | Trajan |
| Ordered: | 19 October 1787 |
| Builder: | Lorient |
| Laid down: | 17 May 1790 |
| Launched: | 24 January 1792 |
| Commissioned: | November 1792 |
| Decommissioned: | June 1802 |
| General characteristics | |
| Class & type: | Téméraire class ship of the line |
| Displacement: |
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| 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: |
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| Armour: | Timber |
The Trajan was a Téméraire class 74-gun ship of the line of the French Navy.
In 1793, Trajan was commissioned in Lorient, under captain Villaret de Joyeuse.
At the Bataille du 13 prairial an 2, along with Éole, she engaged and dismasted HMS Bellerophon.
In 1797, she took part in the Expédition d'Irlande, an ill-fated attempt to invade Ireland. On 17 December 1797, she was renamed Gaulois.
She was eventually broken up in 1805.
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