French ship Patriote (1785)

Scale model of Achille, sister ship of French ship Patriote (1785), on display at the Musée de la Marine in Paris.
History
France
Name:	Patriote
Namesake:	Patriot
Ordered:	28 January 1786
Builder:	Brest
Laid down:	October 1784
Launched:	3 October 1785
Commissioned:	April 1786
Decommissioned:	May 1820
General characteristics
Class and type:	Téméraire-class ship of the line
Displacement:	1,966 tonnes 3,260 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: 16 × 8-pounder long guns 4 × 36-pounder carronades
Armour:	Timber

Patriote was a Téméraire class 74-gun ship of the line of the French Navy. She was one of the French ships which had their hull doubled with copper.

In September 1793, during the Siege of Toulon, she was taken by the British, who removed her armament and embarked the French sailors sympathetic to the Republic. Admiral Hood having agreed to expel them, she then ferried them to Brest, where she arrived on 16 October.

In 1794 she took part in the battle of the Glorious First of June, in the Croisière du Grand Hiver winter campaign in 1794 and 1795, and in the Expédition d'Irlande in December 1796.

From 1821, she was used as a hulk.