French ship Charlemagne (1809)

Launch of Charlemagne before Napoléon.
History
France
Name:	Charlemagne
Namesake:	Charlemagne
Ordered:	4 January 1803
Builder:	Antwerp
Laid down:	May 1804
Launched:	8 April 1807
Struck:	30 August 1814
General characteristics
Class and type:	Téméraire-class ship of the line
Displacement:	2,966 tonnes 5,260 tonnes fully loaded
Length:	54 m (177 ft 2 in)
Beam:	14.3 m (46 ft 11 in)
Draught:	6.7 m (22 ft 0 in)
Propulsion:	Up to 2,485 m2 (26,750 sq ft) of sails
Complement:	678 men
Armament:	74 guns: Lower gundeck: 28 × 36-pounder long guns Upper gundeck: 30 × 24-pounder long guns Forecastle and Quarter deck: 16 × 8-pounder long guns 4 × 36-pounder carronades

Charlemagne was a Téméraire class 74-gun ship of the line of the French Navy, part of the shorter Borée subtype.

Charlemagne was the first ship of the line to be built in Antwerp according to the wishes of Napoléon, who wanted to expand the French Navy by exploiting shipyards in Belgium, the Netherlands and Italy. In 1807, she was stationned in Vlissingen under Commander Dupotet, in the squadron of Vice-Admiral Missiessy. She aided in the defence of Antwerp against the amphibious raid led by Chatham, and again during the Siege of Antwerp of 1814.

After the Bourbon Restoration, on 30 August 1814, Charlemagne was transferred to the Dutch Navy, as per the Treaty of Paris. The Dutch brought her into service as Naussau.