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HMS Genoa

Achille
Scale model of Achille, sister ship of French ship Brillant (1815), on display at the Musée de la Marine in Paris.
History
France
Name: Brillant
Builder: Genoa
Laid down: 1813
Launched: 1814
Captured: 18 April 1814
United Kingdom
Name: Genoa
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:
Armour: Timber

Brillant was a Téméraire-class 74-gun ship of the line of the French Navy. The British captured her while still on keel, ready for launch, at the fall of the city in 1814. She was completed for the Royal Navy and served as HMS Genoa until 1838.

Genoa was present at the Battle of Navarino.



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