French ship Duguesclin (1807)

Scale model of Achille, sister ship of French ship Duguesclin (1807), on display at the Musée de la Marine in Paris.
History
France
Name:	Duguesclin
Namesake:	Bertrand du Guesclin
Builder:	Antwerp
Laid down:	June 1804
Launched:	1807
Decommissioned:	1817
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

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

Ordered on 24 April 1804, Duguesclin was one of the ships built in the various shipyards captured by the First French Empire in Holland and Italy in a crash programme to replenish the ranks of the French Navy.