French ship Ajax (1806)

Scale model of Achille, sister ship of French ship Ajax (1806), on display at the Musée de la Marine in Paris.
History
France
Name:	Ajax
Namesake:	Ajax
Builder:	Lorient
Laid down:	23 November 1804
Launched:	17 June 1806
Decommissioned:	1815
General characteristics
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: Lower gundeck: 28 × 36-pounder long guns Upper gundeck: 30 × 18-pounder long guns Forecastle and Quarter deck: 6 × 8-pounder long guns 10 × 36-pounder carronades
Armour:	Timber

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

Ajax was built at Rochefort along the lines of the Téméraire type designed by Jacques-Noël Sané, but with modifications brought by Engineers Rigault and Filhol; she is sometimes listed as a "82-gun ship".

Commissioned under Captain Jean-Nicolas Petit, she replaced Jemmapes in Zacharie Allemand's squadron. In 1808, she transferred to Toulon, where she became an artillery hulk in 1815.

Renamed Patiente in 1816, she became a prison hulk in 1818.