Scale model of Achille, sister ship of French ship Thésée (1790), on display at the Musée de la Marine in Paris.
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France | |
Name: | Thésée |
Namesake: | Theseus |
Ordered: | 19 October 1787 |
Builder: | Rochefort |
Laid down: | March 1788 |
Launched: | 14 April 1790 |
In service: | August 1790 |
Out of service: | 7 December 1804 |
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Fate: | Broken up in 1816 |
General characteristics | |
Class and type: | Téméraire class ship of the line |
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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 |
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Armour: | Timber |
The Thésée was a Téméraire class 74-gun ship of the line of the French Navy. As Révolution, she took part in the Expédition d'Irlande under Pierre Dumanoir le Pelley.