French ship Jemmapes (1794)

Scale model of Achille, sister ship of French ship Jemmapes (1794), on display at the Musée de la Marine in Paris.
History
France
Name: Jemmapes[1]
Namesake: Battle of Jemappes[1]
Ordered: 19 October 1787[1]
Builder: Rochefort, Charente-Maritime[1]
Laid down: August 1790[1]
Launched: 22 January 1794[1]
Commissioned: March 1794[1]
Decommissioned: May 1820[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:
Armour: Timber

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

Laid down as Alexandre, she was renamed Jemmapes on 7 January 1793 in honour of the Battle of Jemappes. She took part in the Atlantic campaign of May 1794 and ultimately in the Glorious First of June. She was attacked and totally dismasted by HMS Queen, with the loss of 60, including her captain, and 55 wounded.

She took part in the expedition to Saint-Domingue under Julien Cosmao.[1]

She was part of Zacharie Allemand's "invisible squadron", under Captain Jean-Nicolas Petit. She fought at the Battle of the Basque Roads in 1809.[1]

She was used as a hulk in Rochefort, Charente-Maritime from 1830, and was later broken up.[1]

Notes, citations, and references

Notes

    Citations

    1. 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 Roche, vol.1, p.266
    2. ↑ Clouet, Alain (2007). "La marine de Napoléon III : classe Téméraire - caractéristiques". dossiersmarine.free.fr (in French). Retrieved 4 April 2013.

    References

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